Cleaner station and cleaner system comprising the same
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cleaning devices with docking stations face the inconvenience of dust accumulation around the station, which is not easily cleaned without separating the cleaner, leading to scattered dust and inconvenience in maintenance.
Innovation Solution
A cleaner station with a housing, dust collector, suction passage, and a surrounding cleaning device driven by a dust collection motor, which includes a cleaning hose with an elastic portion and a support, allows for dust collection and surrounding area cleaning without separating the cleaner.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a docking station is used to collect dust from the cleaner, then dust can be emptied without direct user intervention, but dust accumulates around the docking station during operation and maintenance
Solution Approach 1:
The docking station is equipped with a surrounding cleaning device that automatically cleans dust around the station without requiring user intervention. The device includes a cleaning hose with an elastic portion that can be extended to reach and clean dust in the surrounding area, enabling the station to maintain its own cleanliness autonomously
Solution Approach 2:
The cleaning hose incorporates an elastic portion that can dynamically extend and retract. This elastic section allows the cleaning device to reach varying distances around the station and adapt to different cleaning positions, providing flexible coverage of the surrounding area while maintaining a compact storage configuration
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the cleaner is separated from the docking station to clean surrounding dust, then the cleaner can be used to clean the area, but this defeats the purpose of having an automated station
Solution Approach 1:
The docking station integrates multiple functions: it serves as both a dust collection point for the cleaner and a standalone cleaning device. The surrounding cleaning device mounted on the station can independently clean the surrounding area, eliminating the need to use the cleaner for this purpose and maintaining the station's automated functionality
3Reliability
If dust bags are replaced in the docking station, then dust collection capacity is restored, but dust scatters during the replacement process
Solution Approach 1:
The surrounding cleaning device automatically activates or is readily available during dust bag replacement to capture and clean any dust that may scatter during the maintenance process, preventing dust accumulation without interfering with the replacement operation
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables convenient cleaning of dust around the cleaner station without operating the cleaner separately, preventing dust scattering and maintaining cleanliness effectively.
Implementation Method 1
a dust collection motor which is disposed downstream of the passage and generates a suction force to the passage
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a cleaner station and a cleaner system including the same. The cleaner system includes a surrounding cleaning device which is disposed in the passage, is driven by the suction force of the dust collection motor, and cleans a surrounding area of the housing. Since the surrounding cleaning device can clean the surrounding area of the housing, the cleaner station is able to conveniently clean dust accumulating around the cleaner station even without separately operating the cleaner coupled to the cleaner station, and the cleaner system includes the cleaner station.