3173results about "Cleaning machines" patented technology

A method for operating a robot, including: capturing images of a workspace; capturing data indicative of movement of the robot; capturing LIDAR data as the robot moves within the workspace; generating a map of the workspace based on the LIDAR data; actuating the robot to drive; discriminating between an object on a floor surface along a path of the robot and the floor surface based on the captured images; actuating the robot to drive until determining all areas of the workspace are discovered and included in the map; and executing a cleaning function.

A multi-battery-equipped robot includes a casing assembly, a control box provided within the casing assembly, a driving motor, a suction motor and at least two battery assemblies. The driving motor is detachably provided on an inner wall of the casing assembly. The suction motor is detachably provided on an inner bottom surface of the casing assembly. Each battery assembly includes a battery pack and a circuit board. An outer wall of the casing assembly is provided with a slot, in which the battery assemblies are detachably provided. The battery pack is electrically connected to the circuit board through a first cable. The circuit board is electrically connected to the control box through a second cable. Any two circuit boards are electrically connected to each other through a third cable.

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 body for a squeegee or wiper, a squeegee and a wiper as well as a method for squeegeeing or wiping a surface. A swivel joint is arranged between the handle and the head section of corresponding devices. This is combined with a telescopic handle, whereby the swivel joint and the telescopic handle complement each other synergistically.

A modular caddy for carrying window cleaning accessories includes a main bag and at least one modular unit attachable to the main bag. The main bag has a back panel and a cover sheet, with securing means arranged on the back panel for releasably securing the main bag to a garment. Strips of webbing are arranged on the outer surface and fixed at regular intervals to form a series of gaps. Attachment means are dimensioned to correspond to said gaps and configured for releasably attaching modular units to the strips of webbing.The modular units also have strips of webbing for attaching to the main bag and for mounting further modular units thereon.

A cleaner head for a vacuum cleaner includes a laser diode for illuminating debris located upon a region of a work surface located in front of the cleaner head with green light.

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 discloses a detachable electric driving device and a cleaning machine, the detachable electric driving device comprises an electric driving assembly, a hinge piece and an end button assembly, the hinge piece is located at one end of the hinge piece and is detachably and electrically connected with the power connection end of the electric driving assembly, and the other end of the hinge piece is used for being hinged to a motor fixing part arranged at one end of a cleaning head shell; the input end of the end button assembly is coupled with the rotating output end of the electric driving assembly, and the output end of the end button assembly is used for driving a roller assembly of the cleaning machine to rotate and further driving a driven gear to rotate so as to drive a brush assembly to rotate. The clamping end is rotationally connected with the other end of the cleaning head shell and has a moving stroke in the axial direction of the electric driving assembly. The technical scheme of the utility model solves the problem that the conventional cleaning machine driving motor is troublesome to disassemble and assemble in the maintenance process.

A scraper includes a cover, a first clamping member, a second clamping member, and a locking device. The cover has a connection portion and an insertion protrusion. The first clamping member has a first through groove, and the second clamping member has a second through groove. The locking device has a sliding portion slidably arranged in the first through groove and the second through groove. The connection portion of the cover is detachably connected to the side of the first clamping member opposite to the second clamping member, and the insertion protrusion inserts through the first through groove and the second through groove and is detachably coupled with the second clamping 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 invention belongs to the technical field of cleaning tools, and discloses a mop bucket water pumping and cleaning mechanism and a working method thereof.The mop bucket water pumping and cleaning mechanism is arranged on a cleaning stroking opening of a mop bucket body and comprises a cleaning stroking opening support used for installing a limiting roller and a cleaning assembly; the cleaning stroking opening support is detachably installed below a top face plate of a top opening of the mop bucket body, and the cleaning stroking opening is formed in the top face plate and the cleaning stroking opening support. The limiting roller is used for limiting the back of the mop flat plate inserted into the cleaning stroking opening, and the cleaning assembly is used for spraying and cleaning a cleaning pad on the front surface of the mop flat plate; the water pump is arranged in the clean water cavity of the mop bucket main body, the limiting rollers transmit power to the water pump through a transmission assembly, and the water pump pumps water to the cleaning assembly. The original limiting roller is directly used as a power source to drive the water pump to pump water, the structure is simplified, and the failure rate is reduced.

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.

The invention relates to surface engagement sensing for a surface cleaning device. A surface cleaning device includes an air passage having a suction inlet. The motor is configured to generate an airflow through the air passage. One or more operating parameters of the motor may vary when the suction inlet is engaged with or disengaged from a surface. A power level of the motor may be controlled based at least in part on a change in one or more operating parameters of the motor.

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.

The utility model discloses a multimedia rostrum, relates to the multimedia rostrum technical field, when using the computer monitor, the rostrum includes the rostrum main part, the left and right sides of the upper end of the rostrum main part are both fixedly equipped with mounting blocks, the inner sides of the two mounting blocks are both equipped with the collecting groove, the collecting groove is equipped with the upper end of the rostrum main part and the lower end of the rostrum main part. A second rectangular opening is formed in the right side of the upper end of the platform body, a computer display can be used by drawing out the first baffle from the second sliding groove and drawing out the second baffle from the third sliding groove, when the computer display does not need to be used, the first baffle and the second baffle are inserted into the second sliding groove and the third sliding groove respectively, and the situation that when the computer display is not used, the computer display is damaged is avoided. When a computer monitor is exposed outside, chalk scraps fall on the surface of the computer monitor, and when many chalk scraps fall on the platform body, a push plate is pushed to drive a cleaning brush at the lower end of a mounting plate to move from the left side to the right side, and then the chalk scraps at the upper end of the platform body are cleaned into a collecting box.

The present disclosure provides a base station for a mobile cleaner. The base station includes a dock, a cleaning unit, a water assembly, and a self-checking module. The dock is configured to accommodate the mobile cleaner. The cleaning unit is configured to clean the mobile cleaner accommodated in the dock. The water supply assembly is configured to supply water to the cleaning unit from a water source. The self-checking module is configured to detect a malfunction regarding conveyance of water from the water source to the cleaning unit.

A scrubbing tool for cleaning a surface that has a handle for holding by a user in a cleaning operation. The handle has a first connector. The scrubbing tool also has a cleaning head having a second connector configured to mate with the first connector in order to attach the cleaning head to the handle in an engaged position. The cleaning head is comprised entirely of a material configured to dissolve in water and has a cleaning agent.

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.