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An autonomous floor cleaning robot includes a transport drive and control system arranged for autonomous movement of the robot over a floor for performing cleaning operations. The robot chassis carries a first cleaning zone comprising cleaning elements arranged to suction loose particulates up from the cleaning surface and a second cleaning zone comprising cleaning elements arraigned to apply a cleaning fluid onto the surface and to thereafter collect the cleaning fluid up from the surface after it has been used to clean the surface. The robot chassis carries a supply of cleaning fluid and a waste container for storing waste materials collected up from the cleaning surface.

A robot cleaner system for detecting an external recharging apparatus which is positioned in a non-detectable area by an upper camera thereof, and a docking method for docking the robot cleaner system with the external recharging apparatus. The robot cleaner system includes an external recharging apparatus with a power terminal connected to a utility power supply, a recharging apparatus recognition mark formed on the external recharging apparatus, and a robot cleaner, having a recognition mark sensor that detects the recharging apparatus recognition mark, and a rechargeable battery. The robot cleaner automatically docks to the power terminal to recharge the rechargeable battery. The recharging apparatus recognition mark is made of retroreflective material or a metal tape, and the recognition mark sensor may be a photosensor or a proximity sensor.

A robot cleaner system and a method for the robot cleaner to return to an external recharging apparatus. The robot cleaner system has an external recharging apparatus including a charging stand having a charging terminal, and a plurality of transmission parts for sending signals having different codes and strengths; a robot cleaner including a rechargeable battery, a connection terminal for connection with the charging terminal to supply power to the rechargeable battery, a receiving part for receiving signals from the plurality of transmission parts, and a control part for controlling a movement of the robot cleaner using the signals received by the receiving part, so that the connection terminal is connected to the charging terminal.

A self-propelled working robot according to the present invention comprises a traveling assembly (1) having a wheel (6) and first and second working assemblies (20, 50) that are detachable from the traveling assembly 81). One of the first and second working assemblies (20, 50) is selectively mounted on the traveling assembly (1). Each working assembly has a type identification means (33) that enables identification of a type of the working assembly. The traveling assembly (1) has a driving motor (5) that drives the wheel (6), a wheel controlling means (41) that controls rotation of the driving motor (5), a discriminating means (38) that discriminates which of the working assemblies is mounted and a work signal output means (39) that outputs a work signal for actuating the working assembly (20, 50) in response to a result of a discrimination.

A floor cleaning machine having a body in which the body cover assembly is hollow and serves as the recovery solution reservoir; while the lower body assembly, which is also hollow, serves as the cleaning solution tank or reservoir. In addition, the lower body has a recessed area proportioned to receive and secure the batteries required for driving the motors involved in the floor cleaning machine. A trans-axle drive supports the lower body and has a drive wheel at each end powered by a motor differential engaging the axles coupled to the wheels. Together the body and trans-axle drive comprise a modular power unit. Mounting means are provided on the forward portion of the lower body of the power unit for lift arms to be secured to various power floor scrubbers for use on hard floors or a carpet extractor for cleaning carpeted floors. The linkage for the floor scrubber mode and carpet cleaning mode is the same. Such linkage also uses a maximum number of resiliently mounted bushings which, along with the monocoque body and retained fluid movement, cushion against damage by impact under power.

The robot cleaner includes a main body configured to remove dust from a floor while traveling on the floor, the main body having a lateral rim defining the external appearance of a lateral surface of the robot cleaner, and at least one side brush assembly mounted to the main body to clean the corner of the floor. The side brush assembly includes a side arm pivotably coupled to the main body, the side arm moving between a first position where the side arm is inserted into the main body and a second position where the side arm protrudes outward from the lateral rim of the main body, a brush unit provided at the side arm to sweep the floor, and a rim cover coupled to the side arm to form a part of the lateral rim of the main body when the side arm is inserted into the main body.

The invention belongs to the technical field of cleaning robots, and particularly relates to a dirt recognizing system of a cleaning robot and a cleaning method. The dirt recognizing system, namely a detecting unit, comprises a dust recognizing device and an attachment recognizing device. The dust recognizing device, namely a dust sensor, comprises a light transmitting element and a light receiving element. The dirt recognizing device comprises an image acquiring unit and an image processing unit. The cleaning method includes dust suction and floor mopping, dust suction time and power are determined by dust quantity detected in real time, and floor mopping frequency is determined by the quantity of attachment on floors. The system has an ability of actively recognizing dirt, cleaning force and cleaning time can be adjusted in real time according to the dirt quantity, and accordingly the floors are cleaned efficiently on the premise of guaranteeing cleaning quality.

A wet extraction floor cleaning device having a base assembly adapted for movement on a surface being cleaned, an operating handle pivotally attached to the base assembly, a supply tank having a supply tank outlet, and a recovery tank having a recovery tank inlet and a recovery tank outlet. The base assembly has an inlet nozzle that extends from an inlet slit proximal the surface being cleaned to a nozzle outlet. The device further includes a fluid deposition assembly that can be selectively placed in fluid communication with the supply tank outlet, a vacuum source, and first and second external pockets. The supply and recovery tanks are adapted to be selectively placed in the first and second external pockets, thereby placing the supply tank outlet in fluid communication with the fluid deposition system, the recovery tank inlet in fluid communication with the nozzle outlet, and the recovery tank outlet in fluid communication with the vacuum source inlet.

A robot cleaner includes a drive unit for driving a plurality of wheels, a camera disposed in a body for photographing an upper image extending perpendicular to a running direction, a controller for recognizing a position by using position information obtained from a recognition mark formed on a ceiling of a working area that is photographed by the camera, and controlling the drive unit by using the recognized position information to correspond to a target cleaning operation. Accordingly, since the recognition mark for the recognition of a current position of the robot cleaner is formed on a ceiling that has a few changes, the position recognition is performed with more accuracy and the traveling of the robot cleaner to the target work area and a cleaning operation is performed efficiently.

A robot cleaner includes a main body, a traveling unit installed in the main body, to move the main body, an ultrasonic sensor to emit an oscillation wave, to receive a reflection wave reflected from an object surface, and to output vibration generated by the oscillation wave and vibration generated by the reception of the reflection wave as an electrical signal, a waveform analyzer to calculate a generation time period of the electrical signal output from the ultrasonic sensor, and a controller to determine information about the object surface based on the calculated generation time period of the electrical signal, and to control movement of the traveling unit based on the information about the object surface.

The invention discloses a miniature robot capable of walking and cleaning on vertical surfaces such as a glass curtain wall and a ceramic outer wall. The robot walks through a track provided with a sucker, the track sucker is connected with a vacuum pump, and local vacuum is formed by air extraction so as to generate negative pressure; the sucker is of a specially designed structure with an air valve to exhaust through lever action; a steering sucker is arranged in the middle of a robot chassis, a motor controls a ball screw to operate so that a robot vehicle body rotates around the axis of the steering sucker so as to steer; an ultrasonic detection and feedback device is arranged at the front end of the robot vehicle body to guarantee the robot to measure and avoid barriers in real time during the walking process; and a fog-shaped spraying device, a drum brushing and washing device and a scraping plate washing device are installed on the robot vehicle body to clean the wall surface during the walking process of the robot. By means of the multi-technology multi-science combination, namely combination of a robot system function, a mechanical structure, a movement mechanism, an electronic circuit, a sensing detection, a program control and the like of the robot, the robot can reliably walk and efficiently clean on vertical surfaces such as the glass curtain wall and the ceramic outer wall.

A cleaning robot having improved traveling performance and a method of controlling the same. The cleaning robot detects a stuck state such as a ‘jammed state, ‘lifted state’, or ‘object-caught state’ by using a motion instruction or sensor information and quickly escapes from the stuck state caused in various traveling conditions by using a wheel structure capable of changing a total height of the cleaning robot. In addition, a degree of risk and type of the stuck state is predicted before the cleaning robot is in the stuck state so that the cleaning robot may deal with the stuck state in advance. The cleaning robot may escape from the stuck state via rapidly deceleration or quick stopping in accordance with the predicted degree of risk of the stuck state, and the cleaning robot may efficiently deal with the stuck state by using information to select an escaping method suitable for the type of the stuck state.

The invention discloses a control method and system for a sweeping robot, a cloud server and the sweeping robot. The control method comprises the following steps that the sweeping robot takes a ground image of the ground inside a room, and uploads the ground image to the cloud server; the cloud server analyzes the ground image to obtain a to-be-cleaned area and the ground dirtying degree of the ground inside the room; the cloud server judges whether the ground dirtying degree is greater than a first preset threshold value or not; when the ground dirtying degree is greater than the first preset threshold value, the cloud server sends the to-be-cleaned area to the sweeping robot; and the sweeping robot cleans the to-be-cleaned area. According to the method provided by the invention, the current environmental condition can be judged automatically, and cleaning is carried out according to the current environmental condition, so that the cleaning for the ground is realized in the real sense, and the practicability is strong.

The invention discloses an intelligent cleaning robot capable of realizing automatic navigation, floor mopping, charging and duster cloth cleaning. The intelligent cleaning robot comprises a cleaning robot body and a base station with functions of automatically mopping a floor, charging and cleaning duster cloth, wherein the base station with the functions of automatically mopping the floor, charging and cleaning the duster cloth is an L-shaped fixing device; the cleaning robot body is mutually separated from the base station with the functions of automatically mopping the floor, charging and cleaning the duster cloth; the cleaning robot body and the base station move separately and freely; the front part of the base station with the functions of automatically mopping the floor, charging and cleaning the duster cloth is provided with an automatic charging contact end, and the base station is internally provided with a water filtration and dust extraction system and a water filtration system; the bottom of the base station with the functions of automatically mopping the floor, charging and cleaning the duster cloth is provided with a water trough which is used for automatically cleaning the duster cloth; the cleaning robot body is provided with a navigation component, and the navigation component is a three-coordinate digital gyroscope module. The intelligent cleaning robot has the characteristics of convenience in use, accuracy in positioning, sensitiveness in control response, low cost, small size and the like.

The invention relates to a ground cleaning robot. The ground cleaning robot comprises a charging seat and a robot main body, wherein a transmission unit is arranged on the charging seat and comprises a pair of lateral transmitting elements which are arranged on the left side and the right side of the charging seat; each lateral transmitting element can alternatively transmit far signals and near signals with the same transmission angle and different transmission radiuses; the far signals and the near signals respectively form a far signal coverage area and a near signal coverage area; the right side part of the far signal coverage area on the left side and the left side part of the far signal coverage area on the right side are overlapped to form a butt joint area; the robot main body comprises rechargeable batteries and a receiving unit; the receiving unit at least comprises three receiving elements; the three receiving elements are respectively arranged at the front end, the front end left side and the front end right side of the robot main body. With arrangement of the three receiving elements and the two lateral transmitting elements on the charging seat, the robot can utilize a simple method to realize charging butt joint between the robot main body and the charging seat.

A muffler for a steam cleaning apparatus comprising a housing having a first and a second inlet, and an outlet, a plurality of baffles disposed within, and coupled to the housing, wherein the plurality of baffles are covered with a foam; wherein the first inlet is pneumatically coupled to an air pump of the steam cleaning apparatus, and wherein the first inlet provides to the housing a stream of humid air from an application subsystem of the steam cleaning apparatus; and wherein the second inlet receives combustion exhaust from a combustion motor that drives an air pump that is operationally coupled to the application subsystem, and wherein the outlet releases air comprising combustion exhaust of the motor.

Disclosed herein are a robot cleaner and a robot cleaning system having the same. The robot cleaner includes a main body, a traveling unit configured to move the main body, a cleaning unit configured to execute cleaning, a camera configured to capture an image including foreign substances, a communication unit configured to exchange data with a mobile terminal or a server, and a controller configured to control transmission of the image including the foreign substances and image related information to the mobile terminal or the server and to execute cleaning of an area around the foreign substances based on cleaning execution information regarding the foreign substances or to execute no cleaning of the area around the foreign substances based on cleaning avoidance information regarding the foreign substances, transmitted from the mobile terminal or the server. Thereby, the robot cleaner may selectively clean foreign substances.

A robot cleaner provided with a shutter to open or close an inlet of a dust box when the dust box is separated from a body of the robot cleaner. Another robot cleaner, which docks with an automatic exhaust station, is also disclosed, together with the automatic exhaust station. The latter robot cleaner includes a shutter to be automatically opened by air discharged from the automatic exhaust station in a docked state of the robot cleaner to exhaust dust from the dust box, in order to allow even heavy dust to be easily exhausted.

The present invention is a system for and method of providing an autonomously mobile air purifier and surface cleaner in combination with a source of air fragrance in a single device for home or office use. The autonomously mobile air and surface cleaner and fragrancing system includes an air purifier, a fragrancer, a floor cleaner, an input means, a power system, operational and auxiliary sensors, robotics that drive and steer the device, and a central controller operatively connected to each of the aforementioned items to control the operation of the device. The present invention also provides a method for the operation of the device using the air purifier, fragrancer, floor cleaner and robotics to clean a room, and for modifying the operation of the device in response to signals sent from the sensors or from the input means.

A portable surface cleaning apparatus comprises a fluid dispensing system including at least one fluid supply tank, a dispensing nozzle for applying a cleaning fluid to a surface to be cleaned, and a block heater for heating the fluid to be applied to the surface to be cleaned to a temperature less than boiling; a fluid recovery tank for holding recovered fluid; a suction nozzle; a working air conduit extending between the recovery tank and the suction nozzle; and a vacuum source in fluid communication with the recovery tank for generating a flow of working air from the suction nozzle through the working air conduit and into the recovery tank to thereby recover fluid from the surface to be cleaned.

A robotic cleaning device having a main body with a controllable drive means to move the device over a surface, a cleaning means to clean the surface, an obstacle detecting means, and a control means connected to the drive means and the obstacle detecting means. The main body has a left wall connecting a front end portion with a left rear end portion and a right wall connecting the front end portion with a right rear end portion. The control means receives information from the obstacle detecting means about a detected obstacle and controls the drive means to rotate the device around a main left-turn axis at the left rear end portion or a main right-turn axis at the right rear end portion, such that the device turns one around one of the axes. The side walls are configured such that the device clears the obstacle by the turning motion.

The invention provides an outer wall cleaning machine which comprises a rack and a cleaning brush device arranged on the rack. The cleaning brush device comprises a first support with a cleaning brush, a first distance detecting unit, a first control unit and a first driving mechanism, wherein the first support is movably connected with the rack, the first distance detecting unit is used for measuring the first distance between the first distance detecting unit and a cleaning face, the first control unit is used for controlling the first driving mechanism according to the first distance, and the first driving mechanism is used for driving the first support to carrying out motion. The outer wall cleaning machine can clean a flat cleaning face and a flat cleaning face with protrusions safely and efficiently.

The invention discloses a cleaning robot base station. A water inlet and outlet device which injects water into a cleaning box stopped in a robot and recycling sewage of a sewage box in the robot is arranged inside the base station. The invention further discloses a robot system. The system comprises a robot body and the base station, the robot body comprises the clean water box and the sewage box, the base station allows the robot body to be stopped, and the water inlet and outlet device which injects water into the cleaning box stopped in the robot body and recycling sewage of the sewage boxin the robot body is arranged inside the base station. According to the cleaning robot system, by automatically connecting the robot with the base station, clean water is added or sewage is poured out, and complex manual operation is omitted.

An electric sweeping washing device includes a sweeping washing brush and a water collection system design. The sweeping washing brush includes a body; a sweeping roller brush disposed anteriorly at the body; and a dust collecting box for raking dust; a water absorbing scrubbing roller brush disposed posteriorly at the body; a sprinkler head; and a water absorbing scraper for absorbing water from the water absorbing scrubbing roller brush and raking dirty water. The water collection system design includes a tank divided into a clean water chamber and the dirty water chamber, wherein the sprinkler head, the clean and dirty water chambers, a water absorbing scraper, and the dust collecting box are connected via tubes; a spray motor for withdrawing clean water from the clean water chamber and delivering it to the sprinkler head; and an air intake motor for providing vacuum pressure to the dirty water chamber.

A cyclonic power wash system uses high pressure, high temperature water for selectively cleaning large, flat, concrete or asphalt surfaces. The sprayed water is reclaimed by vacuuming it through holes in the bottom of a reclamation ring attached to the underside of the mobile cyclone sprayer, filtering the vacuumed water and returning it to a storage tank for re-use by the system. The filtration tank initially filters out large matter in an inlet trough and smaller matter in a plurality of cascading chambers. A rotary union in the sprayer prevents the water, passing from the inlet of the rotary union to the discharge thereof, from leaking through or around a seal formed by pressing together a pair of hard, durable sealing surfaces, for example, silicon carbide, one of which is non-rotatably slidingly received in an upper recess of the union's fixed housing and the other, affixed to a spindle rotatably received and retained in a lower recess of the housing. The sliding fit interface of the non-rotatable seal face in the upper recessed housing is sealed by an o-ring supported at its inner bore by extended portions adjacent the central bores of the members between which it is sandwiched. Upward and rotational forces are applied to the spindle in reaction to the water exiting from nozzles affixed to a spray bar attached to the spindle.

The invention discloses a mode control method, a system and a cloud server of a sweeping robot and the sweeping robot. The method includes the steps that the sweeping robot acquires an image of a to-be-swept article on the ground and uploads the image to the cloud server; the cloud server determines the type of the to-be-swept article according to the image of the to-be-swept article, the cloud server determines the sweeping mode of the sweeping robot according to the type of the to-be-swept article and sends the sweeping mode to the sweeping robot; the sweeping robot sweeps away the to-be-swept article according to the sweeping mode. The sweeping robot can autonomously select the suitable sweeping modes according to different ground conditions, and therefore the purpose of really sweeping the ground clean is achieved, the housework loads of a user are relieved, and user experience is improved.

The invention relates generally to the conditioning of bowling lanes, and, more particularly to an apparatus and method for automatically applying a predetermined pattern of dressing fluid along the transverse and longitudinal dimensions of a bowling lane.

The invention discloses a cleaning method for sweeping the floor by a sweeping robot, which includes: normal walking and cleaning when no obstacles are detected and automatic processing and cleaning when obstacles are detected. The automatic processing and cleaning steps when obstacles are detected are: first Step 1: Stop moving forward, scan the obstacle to determine the type of obstacle, and deal with it according to the type of obstacle; Step 2: Measure the distance to the obstacle and determine the range of slow walking distance; Step 3: In the slow walking area Reduce the walking speed, increase the rotation speed of the cleaning roller brush or the suction force of the cleaning port until it crosses or sticks around obstacles; The problem of cleaning the gap between the obstacles or the area where the obstacle meets the ground.

A floor washing robot is disclosed. The robot includes: a control unit for controlling a power source to drive at least three omnidirectional wheels and at least one washing disc to rotate to wash a floor; a water spray device for spraying water; and a vacuum device for vacuuming waste water or dirt. The floor washing robot can be moved freely in any direction to improve the cleaning effect.

The invention provides a smart home cleaning robot. The smart home cleaning robot generates a primary environmental map of the environment firstly, and then generates a complete boundary map through analysis on the environment according to the primary environmental map. Before sweeping rooms, the robot understands the complete boundary map so as to obtain a room structure after understanding, and then sweeps the rooms one by one according to the room structure after the understanding. In the sweeping process, certain judging conditions are used for avoiding obstacles in a humanized mode.