Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Robotic vacuum cleaning system
- Patent Title (中): 机器人真空清洁系统
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Application No.: US14302474Application Date: 2014-06-12
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Publication No.: US08910342B2Publication Date: 2014-12-16
- Inventor: Duane Leigh Gilbert, Jr. , Faruk Halil Bursal , Richard Joseph Therrien , Russell Walter Morin
- Applicant: iRobot Corporation
- Applicant Address: US MA Bedford
- Assignee: iRobot Corporation
- Current Assignee: iRobot Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Bedford
- Agency: Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP
- Main IPC: A47L9/04
- IPC: A47L9/04 ; A47L7/02

Abstract:
A robot cleaning system includes a debris collection volume, a vacuum airway configured to deliver debris to the debris collection volume, and a cleaning head in pneumatic communication with the vacuum airway. The cleaning head includes two shape-changing resilient tubes separated by an air gap opposing the vacuum airway. The cleaning head is operable in a first configuration, where the two shape-changing resilient tubes rotate against a cleaning surface engaged by the cleaning head to agitate debris on the cleaning surface to pass through the air gap and into the vacuum airway, and a second configuration, where both shape changing resilient tubes deform opposite one another to roll an object larger than the air gap to pass into the vacuum airway.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140289999A1 Robotic Vacuum Cleaning System Public/Granted day:2014-10-02
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