Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cleaning pads for autonomous floor cleaning robots
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Application No.: US17060818Application Date: 2020-10-01
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Publication No.: US11589724B2Publication Date: 2023-02-28
- Inventor: John Reimels , Marcus R. Williams , Adam Goss , Isaac Fowler , Lucile Driscoll
- Applicant: iRobot Corporation
- Applicant Address: US MA Bedford
- Assignee: iRobot Corporation
- Current Assignee: iRobot Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Bedford
- Agency: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Main IPC: A47L11/40
- IPC: A47L11/40 ; A47L11/28

Abstract:
An autonomous floor cleaning robot includes a robot body, a drive supporting the robot body to maneuver the robot across a floor surface, a pad holder attached to an underside of the robot body and configured to receive a removable cleaning pad, and a pad sensor configured to sense a pad type identifier on a central region of the cleaning pad. The pad type identifier includes a marker on the central region of the cleaning pad. The cleaning pad has a mounting card affixed thereto, and the pad type identifier includes an array of apertures that expose selected portions of the marker.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210015331A1 CLEANING PADS FOR AUTONOMOUS FLOOR CLEANING ROBOTS Public/Granted day:2021-01-21
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