2605results about "Cleaning machines" patented technology

A method and computing apparatus are disclosed for allowing a tidying robot to organize objects into non-standard categories and deposit them at non-standard locations that match a user's needs. The tidying robot navigates an environment using cameras to map the type, size, and location of toys, clothing, obstacles, furniture, structural elements, and other objects. The robot comprises a neural network to determine the type, size, and location of objects based on input from a sensing system. An augmented reality view allows user interaction to refine and customize areas within the environment to be tidied, object categories, object home locations, and operational task rules controlling robot operations.

A robot cleaner according to an embodiment may include a motor, a shaft configured to be rotated by the motor, a first member coupled to receive a rotational force from the shaft and including at least one guide protrusion protruding outwardly, and a second member coupled to allow the at least one guide protrusion to slidably move and including at least one guide groove formed in an inner side thereof. The first member may be configured to rotate relative to the second member such that the at least one guide protrusion moves along the at least one guide groove and moves upward or downward of the second member.

The utility model relates to a mop cleaning tool with a bucket. The mop cleaning tool comprises a cleaning bucket, a mop head and a wiping object, the cleaning device is characterized in that the cleaning barrel is provided with a water purification area, a cleaning area and a sewage area which are independent of one another, a handle is arranged at the opening end of the sewage area, the water purification area is communicated with the cleaning area through a water supply channel, and the cleaning device further comprises a switch used for opening and closing the water supply channel. A water retaining wall is arranged at one end, far away from the squeezing and scraping edge, of the squeezing plate; when the mop head enters the cleaning area downwards until the lowest end of the mop head is lower than the outlet end of the water supply channel, the water retaining wall blocks a part of water squeezed and scraped from the wiping object and flows back to the cleaning area along the water guide surface, and the water guide surface can be used for cleaning the mop head. And a part of water squeezed and scraped by the wiping object crosses over the water retaining wall and flows into the sewage area. By means of the cleaning tool, it can be guaranteed that clean water is used in each cleaning operation, cleaning and squeezing can be completed in one area at the same time, and the cleaning and squeezing operations are smooth.

Various illustrative handheld surface cleaners and methods of using handheld surface cleaners are provided. In an exemplary implementation, the handheld surface cleaner is configured to use suction to draw debris into the handheld surface cleaner. The suction also causes air to be drawn into the handheld surface cleaner. The handheld surface cleaner is configured to separate the air and the debris on board the handheld surface cleaner to allow the air to exit the handheld surface cleaner and to allow the debris to be collected in the handheld surface cleaner for later disposal.

A double-layer mop bucket for a flat mop comprises an outer bucket provided with a clean water area and a sewage area, an inner bucket arranged in the sewage area and capable of inserting the flat mop, and a cover body component removably mounted on the outer bucket, wherein a cleaning area and a scraping area which are connected are arranged in the inner bucket, a cleaning port connected with the cleaning area and a scraping port connected with the scraping area are arranged on the cover body component, a groove for limiting the flat mop to be inserted into the bottom is arranged at the bottom of the inner bucket, and a water guiding chute capable of guiding water scraped at the scraping port and the cleaning port to flow into the sewage area is arranged in the cover body component.

A system and method are disclosed for training a machine learning model configured to determine a traversability of a real-world environment by a mobile robot based on an image of the real-world environment. The method advantageously generates high quality synthetic training data for training a traversability detection model to discriminate between traversable and untraversable regions in images captured of a real-world environment. The synthetic training data is generated through simulation of a virtual robot in a virtual environment. Once the traversability detection model is trained, it can be deployed to the mobile robot for the purpose of predicting traversability of a real-world environment.

The present invention discloses a fabric cleaning machine with a water circulation function, comprising a sewage tank, a clean water tank, a machine body base and a machine body upper cover, wherein the machine body base is internally provided with a sewage pump and a suction motor, the sewage pump and the suction motor are mounted between the machine body upper cover and the machine body base, the machine body upper cover is provided with a main switch, the main switch is fixedly connected with the machine body upper cover, the filtering assembly is connected with the sewage pump, and the clean water tank is connected with the sewage pump. The present invention has the following beneficial effects that the purposes of recycling water and being more convenient to use and place are achieved.

Telescoping pole systems, glides, and clamps thereof are described. The telescoping pole system includes a plurality of nested poles. The glides include a body having one or more projections. The projections lock the glides into a pole. The glide contacts a flange of the clamp, thereby prevent a pole from being fully removed from a pole it is nested within. The poles of such systems may be multi-lobed.

Provided in an embodiment of the present invention for accomplishing the objective is a mobile robot control method comprising the steps of: collecting traveling state information while traveling in a traveling zone according to a basic map of the traveling zone; analyzing the traveling state information so as to set, as a dangerous region, a position where a plurality of abnormal situations occur, thereby creating a prohibited region map in the traveling zone; overlapping the predetermined number of prohibited region maps so as to calculate prohibited region candidates, if the prohibited region map is created to satisfy a predetermined number; and reflecting at least one of the prohibited region candidates on the basic map as a prohibited region so as to update the basic map to be used for subsequent traveling in the traveling zone. Therefore, various abnormal situations that cannot be sensed by a sensor for a space in which traveling is necessary can be recognized, and the type of situation, from among restriction, wandering and collision, can be accurately recognized according to various determination schemes and can be handled according thereto.

The utility model discloses a dust collector floor brush capable of adsorbing metal products, which comprises a floor brush body and a dust collector, the electromagnet is arranged in the protruding part, connected with a power source through a wire and arranged on the bottom face of the protruding part in a penetrating mode. Compared with the prior art, the dust collector solves the problems that when the ground with metal products such as iron particles and scrap iron remaining on the surface is cleaned, the metal products cannot be adsorbed, and the dust collector is damaged.

A multipurpose cleaning tool device is disclosed and described having a tool housing that includes an elongate handle sized to be held by a user when in use, a cleaning head coupled to one end of the elongate handle, a first cleaning material coupled to and extending away from a bottom surface of the cleaning head such that the first cleaning material defines a first surface cleaning interface, and a channel extending through the tool housing from a top surface of the tool housing to a bottom surface of the tool housing in a transverse direction to the first surface cleaning interface. The channel includes opposing layers of a second cleaning material positioned within the channel defining a second surface cleaning surface transversely oriented with respect to the first cleaning surface interface.

A hand vacuum cleaner has a cyclone having a cyclone axis of rotation that extends between the front and rear ends of the cyclone. A main body houses a suction motor. The suction motor is positioned at a lower end of the main body and forward of a battery pack provided at a lower end of a pistol grip handle.

A cleaning device and methods for cleaning are provided. In one embodiment, the cleaning device includes a head assembly, a body assembly, and a handle assembly. The cleaning device also includes components that enable the cleaning device to operate in dry cleaning modes and wet cleaning modes. Dry cleaning modes can employ a vacuum assembly, including a motor, tubing, and a fluid recovery tank in order to draw in debris and waste into a fluid recovery tank. Wet cleaning modes can further employ a fluid supply tank, a pump, and tubing in order to supply fluid to a brushroll to aid in a cleaning process.

A surface cleaning apparatus includes a momentum separator, which includes an outer liquid collection chamber and an inner solid collection chamber that is positioned within the outer liquid collection chamber and separated from the outer liquid collection chamber by an inner chamber wall. At least a portion of the inner chamber wall is porous. The air flow path comprises an inlet conduit that extends from the dirty air inlet to the inner solid collection chamber, and a downstream air flow path extends from the inner solid collection chamber to a suction motor and the porous portion of the inner chamber wall connects the inner solid collection chamber in fluid communication with the downstream air flow path. Air travelling through the inlet conduit enters the inner solid collection chamber in a first flow direction and air exits the inner solid collection chamber is a second, different flow direction.

The utility model relates to a mop cleaning device with a bucket, which comprises a cleaning bucket / a mop head / a wiping object, and the cleaning bucket is provided with a clean water area, a cleaning area and a sewage area which are mutually independent; the mop is characterized in that a supporting part for supporting the cleaning area and the outer wall of the sewage area is arranged in the sewage area, a water squeezing part is arranged on the cleaning area, the middle of the clean water area is communicated with the middle of the cleaning area through a water supply channel, the width of the mop head is L1, the maximum width of the water supply channel is L2, L1 is larger than L2, and the mop further comprises a switch used for opening and closing the water supply channel. A linkage part is arranged on the switch; the mop head and the mop rod are jointly inserted into the cleaning area to move up and down; the cleaning area is further provided with a drainage channel used for draining water squeezed and scraped by the wiping object to the sewage area and a backflow channel used for enabling the water to flow back to the cleaning area. In the process of moving down the mop head, the lower end of the wiping object is sleeved or buckled on the back plate of the mop head, so that the lower end of the wiping object cannot be warped under the action of the squeezing and scraping edge of the water squeezing plate, and smooth cleaning operation and no blockage are ensured.

The present invention discloses a mop cleaning device, including a bucket body, where a squeezing chamber and a water storage chamber for cleaning or dewatering of a mop are disposed in the bucket body, a squeezing mechanism is disposed on the bucket body, a water supply mechanism is disposed in the water storage chamber, the water supply mechanism is communicated to the squeezing mechanism, the water supply mechanism includes a water pump disposed in the water storage chamber, a retractor disposed on the squeezing mechanism, and a sliding assembly disposed along an inner side wall of the squeezing chamber in an up-and-down movement manner, the sliding assembly is connected to the retractor, and the retractor is connected to the water pump through a transmission assembly.

The utility model relates to a set for cleaning a flat mop, which comprises a cleaning barrel and a mop, the mop comprises a mop head rotationally connected to the lower end of a mop rod, and a wiping object is arranged on the mop head; the cleaning barrel comprises an outer barrel, a clean water barrel and a cleaning barrel, a water squeezing plate for squeezing the wiping object is arranged on the cleaning barrel, the outlet end of the water supply channel is located below the water squeezing plate, the mop head and the mop rod are jointly inserted into the cleaning barrel to move up and down, and the inner wall of the cleaning barrel supports a back plate of the mop head. The water squeezing plate squeezes and scrapes the wiping object, a water draining channel for draining a part of water squeezed and scraped from the wiping object into the outer barrel and a water returning channel for returning a part of water to the cleaning barrel are formed above the water squeezing plate, the water returning direction and the water draining direction are opposite to each other, and a switch for opening and closing the water supplying channel is further included. According to the set, automatic quantitative water supply is achieved, it is guaranteed that clean water is used in each cleaning operation, the amount of the clean water used in each cleaning operation is small, and more water is saved.

A cleaner head for a surface cleaning apparatus, including: a housing movable along a surface to be cleaned; wherein the housing at least partially defines a chamber which includes: a dirty air inlet; a dirty air outlet; and an opening for permitting access to the chamber; the cleaner head further including a cover cooperatively associated with, and movable relative to, the housing for permitting access to the chamber through the opening; wherein the cover includes a wiper device which extends laterally between the first and second sides of the housing and which, in use, is positioned directly adjacent or contacts a surface to be cleaned.

The utility model relates to a cleaning tool with a mop bucket, which comprises the cleaning bucket, a mop head and a wiping object, and the cleaning bucket is provided with a clean water area, a cleaning area and a sewage area which are mutually independent; the mop is characterized in that a water squeezing part for squeezing the wiping object is arranged on the cleaning area, the outer side edge of the water squeezing part forms a squeezing and scraping edge, the top end of the water purification area is closed, the water purification area is communicated with the middle of the cleaning area through a water supply channel, the water supply channel is controlled by a switch to be opened and closed, and the water supply channel also serves as an air inlet channel; in the process that the mop head downwards enters the cleaning area, the top face of the water squeezing piece forms a water guide face which is obliquely arranged in the direction of the squeezing and scraping edge, the water guide face blocks a part of water squeezed and scraped from the wiping object and flows back to the wiping object along the water guide face, and a part of water squeezed and scraped from the wiping object crosses over the upper portion of the water squeezing piece and flows into the sewage area. According to the cleaning tool with the mop bucket, it is ensured that water for cleaning and squeezing every time is clean water, and clean water can be automatically and quantitatively provided every time.

The utility model relates to a cleaning tool based on a mop cleaning barrel, which comprises a cleaning barrel and a mop, the mop comprises a mop head rotationally connected to the lower end of a mop rod, and a wiping object is arranged on the mop head; the cleaning device is characterized in that the cleaning barrel is provided with a water purification area, a cleaning area and a sewage area which are independent of one another, the water purification area and the cleaning area are at least partially located in the sewage area, the middle of the water purification area is communicated with the middle of the cleaning area through a water supply channel, and a water squeezing component for squeezing the wiping object is arranged on the cleaning area. The switch is used for opening and closing the water supply channel; and a first water transfer channel for transferring squeezed and scraped sewage to the sewage area is arranged in the cleaning barrel. According to the cleaning tool based on the mop cleaning barrel, it is guaranteed that clean water is used for cleaning a mop every time.

A combination of a surface cleaner comprising and a dock. The surface cleaner is operable in a cleaning mode wherein air is drawn in through the dirty air inlet of the surface cleaner and through the air treatment chamber of the surface cleaner to the clean air outlet of the surface cleaner, and dirt is collected in the dirt collection region of the surface cleaner. The surface cleaner is also operable in a dirt emptying mode wherein air travels from the suction motor of the surface cleaner and through the outlet port of an air treatment unit of the surface cleaner prior to travelling through the docking station air flow path. The suction motor of the surface cleaner induces the air flow in each of the cleaning mode and the emptying mode.

A floor cleaning / refurbishment pad that includes a support layer, the support layer having a central region and an outer peripheral edge defining an outer support layer dimension, a loft material layer overlaying the support material layer and connected thereto, the loft material composed of at least one loft material and the microfiber loft material layer having a height HL and an outwardly facing surface and an agitator / abrasive strip overlaying a portion of the support material layer and connected thereto, the agitator strip having a height HA and an outwardly facing surface.

A method for improving a mobile robot configured to perform a task in an environment using an operational program is disclosed. Data is received, the data being recorded by the mobile robot using one or more sensors when the mobile robot is navigated in the environment to perform the task. A database and / or model associated with the environment is updated to include the recorded data therein. The operational procedure of the mobile robot can be modified based on the database and / or the model to generate a modified operational procedure for performing the task in the environment, the modified operational procedure improving performance of the mobile robot. Furthermore, based on the database and / or the model, suggestions for improving the performance of the mobile robot in performing the task in the environment can be determined and displayed to a user for consideration.

The utility model discloses a sofa with an automatic cleaning function, and belongs to the field of multifunctional sofas. A sofa with an automatic cleaning function comprises two symmetrically installed side plates, rotating rollers are arranged on the inner sides of the two ends of the two side plates, the outer sides of the rotating rollers are wrapped with annular sofa cushions, one end of one rotating roller is connected with the output end of a motor installed on the side plate, and a cleaning mechanism is installed at one end of the side plate. The cleaning mechanism comprises a frame connected with the side plates, the two ends of the frame are connected with the two side plates respectively, a sofa backrest is arranged at the top of the frame, a brush plate is arranged in the frame, uniform bristles are arranged on the side, facing the annular sofa cushion, of the brush plate, and a dust collection box is arranged at the bottom of the frame; through the arrangement of the rotatable annular sofa cushion and the cleaning mechanism matched with the rotatable annular sofa cushion, the annular sofa cushion is driven to rotate under the driving of the motor, and impurities such as dust and leather scraps on the surface of the sofa cushion are cleaned through the cleaning mechanism.

Disclosed is a mop bucket, including: a bucket body, having a chamber with an opening at a top, wherein the chamber is provided with first and second partition plates to separate the chamber into a dirty water chamber, a movable chamber, and a clean water chamber; a mounting frame, mounted at the top of the bucket body and provided with a first operation opening communicated with the movable chamber; and a cleaning mechanism, including a first scraper plate provided above the first partition plate and inclined toward the dirty water chamber, a water supply assembly, and a water spray pipe provided above the first scraper plate, wherein the water supply assembly is used to communicate with the clean water chamber and the water spray pipe to spray clean water toward the mop in the movable chamber by the water spray pipe. The practicability of the mop bucket is effectively improved.

An adjustable hand-held squeegee device with reverse angle head adjustment. An elongated handle can include either a single elongated member or any plurality of members configured in telescoping fashion. A head includes a rotatable base portion supported at a forward end of the handle. A spring biased locking mechanism is integrated into the handle in proximity to the rotatable base and includes a forward projection engaging a first recess of the rotatable base in a first position. Upon retracting the mechanism via a projecting trigger portion, the rotatable base is rotated to align a second circumferentially offset recess so that, and upon releasing the trigger, the squeegee head is oriented in a reverse angular fashion relative to the handle.