Multifunctional cleaning device
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cleaning devices, such as handheld and robot vacuum cleaners, and robot mopping devices, face limitations in cleaning efficiency and accessibility due to their design, particularly in navigating obstacles and varying ground materials, leading to suboptimal cleaning and mopping effects.
Innovation Solution
A multifunctional cleaning device with a main body, telescopic tube, cleaning head set, and control unit, equipped with detection modules for path and material recognition, allowing for adjustable cleaning force and mode switching between vacuum and mopping, and featuring a carrier unit for transferring articles, enhancing cleaning efficiency and accessibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a robot vacuum cleaner is used to achieve automatic cleaning, then the ease of operation is improved, but the adaptability to different cleaning environments and obstacles deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The cleaning device integrates multiple functions including vacuum cleaning, mopping, and ground material detection into a single system. The cleaning head can switch between dry cleaning and wet mopping modes, and the detection module identifies different ground materials to automatically adjust cleaning parameters, making the device adaptable to various cleaning environments while maintaining automatic operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The cleaning device employs adjustable cleaning force that can dynamically adapt to different ground materials detected by the detection module. The cleaning head parameters can be modified in real-time based on the detected ground type, enabling the device to maintain optimal performance across varying environments while operating autonomously.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the cleaning device increases adaptability to different ground materials, then the measurement precision of ground material detection must be improved
Solution Approach 1:
The detection module provides real-time feedback about ground material type to the control system. Based on this feedback, the cleaning device automatically adjusts cleaning parameters such as suction force or mopping pressure, creating a closed-loop system where detection precision directly informs adaptive cleaning behavior.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the cleaning device is designed with multiple functions, then the adaptability is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines vacuum cleaning, mopping, and detection functions into a single integrated cleaning device. The cleaning head can switch between dry and wet cleaning modes, and the detection module is integrated into the main body, reducing the need for separate devices while managing complexity through functional integration.
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AI summary
A multifunctional cleaning device includes a main body, a telescopic tube body, a cleaning head set and a control unit. Multiple drive units are mounted on one side of the main body. The main body has a detection unit for detecting cleaning range and path. The telescopic tube body is telescopically connected with the main body. The telescopic tube body has a first end and a second end. The first and second ends are respectively connected with the main body and the cleaning head set in communication therewith. The control unit is disposed in the main body to execute system control and judge received signals so as to give commands to the drive units for controlling the move of the main body.