Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Control of evacuation stations
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Application No.: US17826080Application Date: 2022-05-26
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Publication No.: US11771288B2Publication Date: 2023-10-03
- Inventor: Ellen B. Cargill , Douglas Dell'Accio , Benjamin Pheil , Flavia Pastore , Paul Schmitt , John P. O'Brien
- 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 ; B01D46/02 ; B01D46/44 ; G05D7/06 ; B01D46/00

Abstract:
An evacuation station for collecting debris from a cleaning robot includes a controller configured to execute instructions to perform one or more operations. The one or more operations includes initiating an evacuation operation such that an air mover draws air containing debris from the cleaning robot, through an intake of the evacuation station, and through a canister of the evacuation station and such that a receptacle received by the evacuation station receives at least a portion of the debris drawn from the cleaning robot. The one or more operations includes ceasing the evacuation operation in response to a pressure value being within a range. The pressure value is determined based at least in part on data indicative of an air pressure, and the range is set based at least in part on a number of evacuation operations initiated before the evacuation operation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220287535A1 CONTROL OF EVACUATION STATIONS Public/Granted day:2022-09-15
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