Mobile Floor Cleaner Accessory Holder for Secure On-Machine Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mobile floor cleaning machines lack an efficient and user-friendly method to carry and manage cleaning accessories, leading to user inconvenience and potential damage to the machine.
Innovation Solution
A mobile floor cleaning machine with an integrated accessory holder featuring a receiving part fixed to the machine and a movable holding part that can be connected and aligned for various cleaning accessories, allowing for easy attachment and detachment, ensuring secure and accessible storage without obstructing the machine's operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If cleaning accessories are carried separately by the user, then the user has full mobility, but the user experiences inconvenience and potential damage to accessories
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an accessory holder as an intermediary device that bridges the user and cleaning accessories. The holder includes a receiving part fixed to the floor cleaning machine and a holding part that can be connected to the receiving part, creating a mediator system that carries accessories without requiring the user to carry them separately while maintaining ease of access and management
2Ease of operation
If accessories are attached to the floor cleaning machine, then accessory management is improved, but the machine may be damaged by improper attachment
Solution Approach 1:
The accessory holder is segmented into distinct functional parts: a receiving part that is fixed to the floor cleaning machine and provides a defined coupling point, and a holding part that can be connected to the receiving part. This segmentation allows for proper force distribution and secure attachment without compromising the machine's structural integrity
Solution Approach 2:
The receiving part is pre-fixed to the floor cleaning machine at a defined position, creating a prepared and suitable attachment point before the holding part with accessories is connected. This preliminary action ensures that accessories are attached at the correct location, preventing damage to the machine from improper attachment
3Reliability
If a fixed accessory holder is used, then accessories are securely held, but the holder cannot be removed when not needed
Solution Approach 1:
The connection between the holding part and receiving part is designed to be dynamic rather than fixed. The holding part can be connected to and detached from the receiving part, allowing the system to transition between different states (attached/detached) based on whether accessories need to be carried, while maintaining secure holding when attached
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AI summary
The invention relates to a mobile floor cleaning machine (10) having an integrated floor cleaning tool (24). For improved handling, the floor cleaning machine (10) comprises an accessory retainer (52) for cleaning accessories, which accessory retainer has at least one accommodating part (54, 56) fastened to the floor cleaning machine (10) and at least one retaining part (58, 60) that can be connected to the accommodating part for retaining the cleaning accessories.