公开(公告)号：US20200000305A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-02

申请号：US16544227

申请日：2019-08-19

Applicant: iRobot Corporation

Inventor： Levi Fox ,  Marcus R. Williams ,  Yanhan Li ,  Jason Jeffrey Suchman ,  Lucile Driscoll

IPC: A47L11/40 ,  B60L53/14 ,  A47L11/24 ,  A47L11/28 ,  B25J9/00 ,  B25J11/00 ,  B25J19/00 ,  G05D1/02

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a base station for receiving a mobile cleaning robot including a docking structure. The docking structure includes a horizontal surface and at least two electrical charging contacts, each of the electrical charging contacts having a contact surface positioned above the horizontal surface. The base station also includes a platform that is connectable to the docking structure. The platform includes a raised rear surface having a front portion and a rear portion, two wheel wells located in the front portion of the raised rear surface of the platform, and a plurality of raised surface features forward of the raised rear surface configured to support an underside portion of the mobile cleaning robot.