公开(公告)号：US20240317500A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-26

申请号：US18589409

申请日：2024-02-27

Applicant: ViaBot Inc.

Inventor： Fei Xie ,  Dawei Ding ,  Gregg Ratanaphanyarat

IPC: B65G17/12 ,  A47L9/28

CPC classification number: B65G17/12 ,  A47L9/2873 ,  A47L2201/024 ,  B65G2201/04 ,  B65G2203/042

Abstract: A conveyor station, robot module, sweeper module, and methods for autonomously emptying debris using the conveyor station are described. In one example, a conveyor station includes a housing having an input end and an output end. The conveyor station includes a conveyor belt having a receiving region proximate to the input end and an angled transport region leading toward a dispense region. The conveyor belt has a plurality of fins that extend out from a surface of the conveyor belt. The plurality of fins enable movement of debris collected at the receiving region toward the dispense region. The dispense region is configured to push debris into a drop funnel of the housing, and the drop funnel directs debris into a receptacle. The conveyor station includes a conveyor controller of the conveyor station is configured with a sensor for detecting presence of a sweeper module. The sweeper module includes a container that holds debris collected when the sweeper module is connected to a robot module. The debris is configured to be emptied from said sweeper module directly onto said receiving region of the conveyor belt.

公开(公告)号：US20240292986A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-05

申请号：US18574711

申请日：2022-06-24

Applicant: BEIJING ROBOROCK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.

Inventor： Hongliang XU ,  Guang YU ,  Chuanlin DUAN ,  Dahong GONG ,  Yongfei ZHOU

IPC: A47L9/14 ,  A47L9/00 ,  A47L9/12 ,  F16K15/06

CPC classification number: A47L9/1409 ,  A47L9/0063 ,  A47L9/122 ,  A47L9/149 ,  F16K15/063 ,  A47L2201/024 ,  A47L2201/04

Abstract: Disclosed are a dust box, an automatic cleaning apparatus and a dust collection pile. The dust box includes: a dust box body including a bottom wall and sidewalls disposed around edges of the bottom wall, the sidewalls extend from the bottom wall away from the bottom wall, the bottom wall and the sidewalls define an accommodation space, the sidewall is defined with a first through hole, and the first through hole is a pathway for garbage to enter or move out of the accommodation space, a check valve assembly is disposed on the sidewall of the dust box, and the check valve assembly is biased in a closed state, and in response to an external acting force applied to the check valve assembly being greater than a threshold, the check valve assembly is switched from the closed state to an open state.

公开(公告)号：US20240252010A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-01

申请号：US18294302

申请日：2022-07-11

Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited

Inventor： Robert Matthew STRINGER ,  Gemma MCLUCKIE ,  Michael Joseph MATHERS ,  Stefan KOCH

IPC: A47L11/282 ,  A47L11/40

CPC classification number: A47L11/282 ,  A47L11/4011 ,  A47L11/405 ,  A47L2201/022 ,  A47L2201/024

Abstract: A method, and a floor care device (100, 200) are provided for allowing decontaminating parts of a floor care device. The floor care device comprises at least one part (110, 210) that is susceptible to contamination when the floor care device is used in a floor care mode. The method may comprise detecting a transition of the floor care device to a park mode, and in response thereto, executing a decontamination program, the decontamination program including emitting light with a wavelength of 222 nm and thereby illuminating the at least one part for the decontamination thereof.

公开(公告)号：US20240245276A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-25

申请号：US18626608

申请日：2024-04-04

Applicant: iRoboy Corporation

Inventor： Wesley D. Johnson ,  Benjamin H. Schriesheim ,  Qunxi Huang

IPC: A47L11/40 ,  A47L9/28 ,  G05D1/227 ,  G05D1/661

CPC classification number: A47L11/4011 ,  A47L9/281 ,  A47L9/2894 ,  A47L11/4025 ,  G05D1/227 ,  G05D1/661 ,  A47L2201/024 ,  A47L2201/04

Abstract: A method of operating an autonomous cleaning robot is provided. The method includes receiving, at a handheld computing device, data representing a status of a debris collection bin of the autonomous cleaning robot, the status of the bin including a bin fullness reading. The method also includes receiving, at the handheld computing device, data representing a status of a filter bag of an evacuation station, the status of the filter bag including a bag fullness reading. The method also includes presenting, on a display of the handheld computing device, a first status indicator representing the bin fullness reading, and presenting, on the display of the handheld computing device, a second status indicator representing the bag fullness reading.

公开(公告)号：US20240215781A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-04

申请号：US18602591

申请日：2024-03-12

Applicant: iRobot Corporation

Inventor： Vincent Andrew Wolff ,  Brian W. Doughty ,  Leo Torrente ,  Travis Gschrey ,  Jack Zhang ,  Levi Fox ,  Rogelio Manfred Neumann ,  Celerick Stephens ,  James J. Mahoney, JR.

IPC: A47L9/14 ,  A47L9/28

CPC classification number: A47L9/149 ,  A47L9/1409 ,  A47L9/2873 ,  A47L2201/024

Abstract: A docking station for a mobile cleaning robot can include a canister and a base configured to receive the mobile cleaning robot thereon, where the base can include a front portion and a back portion opposite the front portion. The base can include a vacuum port extending at least partially through the base. The canister can be connected to the back portion of the base and can be located at least partially above the base. The canister can include a debris bin connected to the vacuum port to receive debris therefrom and a fan compartment connected to a side wall of the debris bin and including a fan system operable to draw debris through the vacuum port and the debris bin.

公开(公告)号：US11998161B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-04

申请号：US16939055

申请日：2020-07-27

Applicant: BEIJING XIANGJIE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.

Inventor： Liang Bo

IPC: A47L9/28 ,  A47L9/00 ,  A47L9/16 ,  A47L9/04 ,  F16K15/03

CPC classification number: A47L9/2873 ,  A47L9/009 ,  A47L9/1683 ,  A47L9/0466 ,  A47L2201/022 ,  A47L2201/024 ,  F16K15/033

Abstract: The present invention provides a dust suction and charging device for a floor sweeping robot and a dust suction and charging method thereof. The floor sweeping robot has a floor sweeping robot body with a dust box arranged on one side of the body. A dust-box discharge port is formed on the dust box and corresponds to a maintenance-station dust suction port. The maintenance-station dust suction port can be communicated with the dust-box discharge port by pressing an outer surface of the maintenance-station dust suction port. Advantages: (1) the charging, dust removal and maintenance operations on the floor sweeping robot are realized simultaneously; and, (2) dust in the dust box of the floor sweeping robot is sucked into a dust bag of the maintenance station by vacuum, so it is unnecessary to take out the dust box. Therefore, it is convenient to clean and will not pollute the external environment.

公开(公告)号：US11992849B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-28

申请号：US18226029

申请日：2023-07-25

Applicant: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.

Inventor： Wayne Ernest Conrad

IPC: A47L9/16 ,  A47L9/28 ,  B04C5/185 ,  B04C5/26 ,  B04C5/28

CPC classification number: B04C5/28 ,  A47L9/1641 ,  A47L9/1683 ,  A47L9/2873 ,  B04C5/185 ,  B04C5/26 ,  A47L9/1616 ,  A47L2201/024

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner or a docking station has momentum separator having first and second sidewalls which are porous. A first air flow chamber is located exterior to the momentum separator between a first end wall, which is spaced from and faces the first side screen, and the first side screen. A second air flow chamber is located exterior to the momentum separator between a second end wall, which is spaced from and faces the second side screen, and the second side screen. In operation, air exits the momentum separator through the first and second side screens and travels through the first and second air flow chambers to the air outlet of the first and second air flow chambers.

公开(公告)号：US20240074634A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-07

申请号：US18268503

申请日：2021-12-20

Applicant: Terry G. Jones

Inventor： Terry G. Jones ,  Richard Rood

IPC: A47L11/24 ,  B65F1/04 ,  B65F1/16

CPC classification number: A47L11/24 ,  B65F1/04 ,  B65F1/1646 ,  A47L2201/022 ,  A47L2201/024

Abstract: A system includes a trash can combined as a unit with a robotic vacuum docking station. The trash can has a lid that is opened to deposit or empty trash in the trash can and otherwise closed to contain the trash. The docking station includes an inlet for receiving a robotic vacuum. The system can include a vacuum motor for carrying vacuumed debris from the robotic vacuum to a bin. The bin can be a canister segregated from the trash can bin or can be the trash can bin itself. The docking station can charge the robotic vacuum.

公开(公告)号：US20240065506A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-29

申请号：US18240176

申请日：2023-08-30

Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD

Inventor： Seongu LEE ,  Jeonghee CHO ,  Ahyoung LEE ,  Yeongju LEE ,  Jaeshik JEONG ,  Yoonkyung CHO

IPC: A47L9/28 ,  A47L9/16

CPC classification number: A47L9/2873 ,  A47L9/1683 ,  A47L9/2884 ,  A47L2201/024

Abstract: A station apparatus performs a dust discharging operation when it is identified that a suction power decrease amount of a cordless vacuum cleaner is equal to or greater than a pre-set threshold suction power decrease amount, based on information about the suction power decrease amount of the cordless vacuum cleaner received from the cordless vacuum cleaner.

公开(公告)号：US20240065501A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-29

申请号：US18348580

申请日：2023-07-07

Applicant: SHENZHEN SILVER STAR INTELLIGENT GROUP CO., LTD.

Inventor： XUE LIANG ,  JUN YANG ,  QUANLONG LU ,  WUJI ZHANG ,  JUNJIAN HUANG ,  NAN ZHOU ,  DINGRUI LU ,  LIRONG YE

IPC: A47L9/14 ,  A47L9/00 ,  A47L9/12 ,  A47L9/22

CPC classification number: A47L9/149 ,  A47L9/0063 ,  A47L9/122 ,  A47L9/1409 ,  A47L9/1463 ,  A47L9/22 ,  A47L2201/024

Abstract: A cleaning robot includes a housing, a dust box and a dust extraction duct. The housing is enclosed to form a mounting chamber and is provided with a dust outlet. The dust box is arranged in the mounting chamber and configured to collect dust, and the dust box is provided with a dust collection port and a dust extraction port. The dust collection port and the dust extraction port are respectively disposed on two sides of a centerline of the dust box. One end of the dust extraction duct communicates with the dust extraction port, and the other end of the dust extraction duct is connected to the dust outlet of the housing.