公开(公告)号：US10463212B2

公开(公告)日：2019-11-05

申请号：US15599829

申请日：2017-05-19

Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.

Inventor： Bohyun Nam ,  Inbo Shim ,  Jihoon Sung ,  Sojin Park ,  Seunghyun Song ,  Sangkyu Lee ,  Woochan Jun ,  Changhwa Sun ,  Hyungkyu Youk ,  Sangjo Kim

IPC: A47L9/00 ,  A47L5/22 ,  A47L9/04 ,  A47L9/12 ,  A47L9/16 ,  A47L9/28 ,  A47L9/30 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G05D1/02

Abstract: A robot cleaner comprising: a first housing including a controller and a driving wheel of which driving is controlled by the controller; a second housing provided at one side of the first housing, the second housing having a brush module or mop module mounted thereto; a front bumper provided at a front portion of the second housing, the front bumper configured to be movable to the inside of the second housing when the front bumper is in contact with an obstacle; at least one sensing means provided at the inside of the front bumper to sense a movement of the front bumper to the inside of the second housing; side bumpers respectively provided at left and right side portions of the second housing, the side bumpers each being configured to movable to the inside of the second housing when the side bumper is in contact with an obstacle; and a link member provided at the inside of the side bumper to allow the side bumper and the front bumper to interlock with each other such that, when the side bumper is moved to the inside of the second housing, at least one portion of the front bumper is moved together with the side bumper to the inside of the second housing.

公开(公告)号：US10349798B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-16

申请号：US15597531

申请日：2017-05-17

Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.

Inventor： Woochan Jun ,  Chulmo Sung

IPC: A47L11/40 ,  A47L5/22 ,  B25J5/00 ,  G01C21/20 ,  A47L11/33 ,  A47L9/28 ,  A47L9/30 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G01S17/00 ,  A47L9/00 ,  A47L11/00

Abstract: A mobile robot of the present disclosure includes a first pattern emission unit configured to emit a first patterned light downward and forward from the main body on a floor of an area to be cleaned; and an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of first patterned light emitted by the first pattern emission unit and is incident on an obstacle, so as to determine an obstacle based on a pattern detected from the acquired image. Accordingly, based on the information on the nearby obstacles, by determining whether the mobile robot is in a stuck state where traveling of the mobile robot is limited by a plurality of obstacles, and by setting up an escape for traveling, traveling state of the mobile robot and obstacles may be determined rapidly and a corresponding operation may be performed, thereby enabling effective traveling to escape from the stuck state.

公开(公告)号：US10342405B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-09

申请号：US15599894

申请日：2017-05-19

Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.

Inventor： Bohyun Nam ,  Inbo Shim ,  Jihoon Sung ,  Sojin Park ,  Seunghyun Song ,  Sangkyu Lee ,  Woochan Jun

IPC: A47L9/04 ,  A47L9/12 ,  A47L9/16 ,  A47L11/33 ,  A47L11/40

Abstract: A robot cleaner comprising: a cleaner body including a controller, the cleaner body having a dust container accommodation part formed therein; a wheel unit mounted in the cleaner body, the wheel unit of which driving is controlled by the controller; a suction unit mounted in the cleaner body to suck air containing dust; a dust container detachably coupled to the dust container accommodation part, the dust container filtering and collecting dust from sucked air; and a dust container cover including a hinge part rotatably coupled to the cleaner body, the dust container cover detachably coupled to the dust container to cover a top surface of the dust container.

公开(公告)号：US11969136B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-30

申请号：US17049670

申请日：2019-04-18

Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.

Inventor： Woochan Jun

IPC: A47L9/00 ,  A47L9/28 ,  G05D1/00

CPC classification number: A47L9/009 ,  A47L9/2821 ,  A47L9/2826 ,  A47L9/2852 ,  G05D1/0219 ,  G05D1/0227 ,  A47L2201/04 ,  G05D2201/0215

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner for performing autonomous driving may include: a main body; a driving unit; a suctioning unit; a plurality of sensors for sensing obstacles present in each direction; and a control unit for controlling the driving unit to move the main body on the basis of a preset driving pattern. The control unit uses sensors provided at the front side of the main body and a first side of the both sides of the main body so as to detect whether entry into a corner area among cleaning areas is made while driving along the preset driving pattern, and controls the driving unit such that the first side of the main body comes into contact with a first wall forming the corner area at least one time when the main body enters the corner area.

公开(公告)号：US11832782B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-05

申请号：US17051485

申请日：2019-04-18

Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.

Inventor： Woochan Jun

IPC: G05D1/00 ,  A47L9/28 ,  B25J11/00 ,  G05D1/02

CPC classification number: A47L9/2852 ,  A47L9/2805 ,  B25J11/0085 ,  G05D1/0214 ,  G05D1/0219 ,  A47L2201/04

Abstract: In order to solve the problem of the present invention, a vacuum cleaner that performs autonomous driving according to an embodiment of the present invention is characterized by comprising: a main body; a driving unit for driving the main body; a camera for detecting 3-dimensional coordinate information; a memory for storing pattern information related to a recharging station; and a control unit which compares the 3-dimensional coordinate information detected by the camera and the pattern information stored in the memory and related to the recharging station, and which determines, on the basis of the comparison result, whether or not the recharging station is positioned in the vicinity of the main body.

公开(公告)号：US20230136647A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-04

申请号：US18090309

申请日：2022-12-28

Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.

Inventor： Bohyun Nam ,  Inbo Shim ,  Jihoon Sung ,  Sojin Park ,  Seunghyun Song ,  Sangkyu Lee ,  Woochan Jun

IPC: A47L11/33 ,  A47L11/40 ,  A47L9/16 ,  A47L9/04 ,  A47L9/12

Abstract: A robot cleaner comprising: a cleaner body including a controller, the cleaner body having a dust container accommodation part formed therein; a wheel unit mounted in the cleaner body, the wheel unit of which driving is controlled by the controller; and a dust container detachably coupled to the dust container accommodation part, wherein a first opening and a second opening are disposed at the same height in an inner wall of the dust container accommodation part, wherein the dust container includes: an entrance and an exit, disposed side by side along the circumference of the dust container, the entrance and the exit, respectively communicating with the first opening and the second opening when the dust container is accommodated in the dust container accommodation part; and a flow separating part extending downwardly inclined along the inner circumference of the dust container.

公开(公告)号：US10463221B2

公开(公告)日：2019-11-05

申请号：US15599862

申请日：2017-05-19

Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.

Inventor： Bohyun Nam ,  Inbo Shim ,  Jihoon Sung ,  Sojin Park ,  Seunghyun Song ,  Sangkyu Lee ,  Woochan Jun

IPC: A47L11/33 ,  A47L11/40 ,  A47L9/00 ,  A47L9/02 ,  A47L9/04 ,  A47L9/12 ,  A47L9/14 ,  A47L9/16 ,  A47L9/28

Abstract: A robot cleaner comprising: a cleaner body including a dust container accommodation part formed to be recessed toward the front from the rear thereof; a suction unit mounted in the cleaner body to suck air containing dust; a dust container accommodated in the dust container accommodation part, the dust container collecting dust filtered from sucked air; and an exhaust port formed at an end portion of one rear side of the cleaner body, which surrounds the dust container accommodation part, to discharge filtered air to the outside, the exhaust port disposed along the height direction of the cleaner body.

公开(公告)号：US10441128B2

公开(公告)日：2019-10-15

申请号：US15599783

申请日：2017-05-19

Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.

Inventor： Bohyun Nam ,  Inbo Shim ,  Jihoon Sung ,  Sojin Park ,  Seunghyun Song ,  Sangkyu Lee ,  Woochan Jun

IPC: A47L11/33 ,  A47L11/40 ,  A47L9/00 ,  A47L9/04 ,  A47L9/12 ,  A47L9/16 ,  A47L9/28

Abstract: A robot cleaner comprising: a cleaner body; a suction unit sucking air containing dust to be introduced into the cleaner body; and a dust container detachably coupled to the cleaner body, the dust container collecting dust filtered from the air introduced into the cleaner body, wherein the dust container includes: an external case including at least one cyclone filtering dust in air introduced into the dust container; an upper case coupled to an upper portion of the external case, the upper case including an upper opening corresponding to a space into which air passing through the cyclone is discharged; an upper cover detachably coupled to the upper case to open/close the upper opening; and a filter mounted on a rear surface of the upper cover, the filter covering the discharged space of the air passing through the cyclone when the upper cover is coupled to the upper case, to filter dust in the air passing through the cyclone.

公开(公告)号：US10398276B2

公开(公告)日：2019-09-03

申请号：US15599870

申请日：2017-05-19

Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.

Inventor： Bohyun Nam ,  Inbo Shim ,  Jihoon Sung ,  Sojin Park ,  Seunghyun Song ,  Sangkyu Lee ,  Woochan Jun

IPC: A47L11/33 ,  A47L11/40 ,  A47L9/04 ,  A47L9/12 ,  A47L9/16

Abstract: A robot cleaner comprising: a cleaner body including a controller, the cleaner body having a dust container accommodation part formed therein; a wheel unit mounted in the cleaner body, the wheel unit of which driving is controlled by the controller; and a dust container detachably coupled to the dust container accommodation part, wherein a first opening and a second opening are disposed at the same height in an inner wall of the dust container accommodation part, wherein the dust container includes: an entrance and an exit, disposed side by side along the circumference of the dust container, the entrance and the exit, respectively communicating with the first opening and the second opening when the dust container is accommodated in the dust container accommodation part; and a flow separating part extending downwardly inclined along the inner circumference of the dust container, the flow separating part separating the flow of air introduced into the entrance from the flow of air discharged toward the exit to be respectively guided to lower and upper portions thereof.

公开(公告)号：US10362916B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-30

申请号：US15599863

申请日：2017-05-19

Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.

Inventor： Bohyun Nam ,  Inbo Shim ,  Jihoon Sung ,  Sojin Park ,  Seunghyun Song ,  Sangkyu Lee ,  Woochan Jun

IPC: A47L9/00 ,  A47L9/02 ,  A47L9/04 ,  A47L9/12 ,  A47L9/14 ,  A47L9/16 ,  A47L9/28 ,  A47L11/33 ,  A47L11/40

Abstract: A robot cleaner comprising: a cleaner body including a wheel unit and a controller controlling driving of the wheel unit; a dust container accommodation part having a shape recessed toward the front from the rear thereof to be opened to the rear; a dust container detachably coupled to the dust container accommodation part, the dust container have a portion protruding rearward of a rear end of the cleaner body in a state in which the dust container is accommodated in the dust container accommodation part; and a dust container cover rotatably coupled to the cleaner body to cover the dust container, wherein the dust container cover is accommodated in the dust container accommodation part in a state in which the dust container cover is disposed to cover the dust container, and a portion of the dust container cover protrudes rearward of the rear end of the cleaner body.