Abstract:
A cleaning robot that includes a housing having a front portion, a rear portion, a door and a hinge; wherein the door is pivotally connected to the rear portion of the housing via the hinge; wherein the rear portion comprises a rear opening; wherein the door is arranged to move between a closed position in which the door substantially closes the rear opening and an open position in which the door does not close the rear opening; wherein the door comprises a floating element or is coupled to a floating element, wherein the floating element is positioned and shaped to induce the door to move to the closed position when the cleaning robot is submerged in fluid and to remain in an open position when out of a pool and positioned in a horizontal position.
Abstract:
A pool cleaning robot that may include a filtering unit for filtering fluid that passes through the filtering unit; a calorimetric sensor for sensing a cleanliness related parameter of the filtering unit while the pool cleaning robot is submerged in the fluid; and a controller that is configured to at least assist in determining, based on the cleanliness related parameter of the filtering unit, a cleanliness of the filtering unit.
Abstract:
A pool cleaner that may include a housing; a driving motor that is configured to assist in moving the pool cleaner; a filtering element that is at least partially surrounded by the housing; an intake aperture; a first fluid conduit; and a first grille that comprises two or more movable first panes; wherein the filtering element is configured to filter fluid from the intake aperture to provide filtered fluid; wherein the first fluid conduit is configured to direct the filtered fluid towards the first grille; and wherein the first grille is configured to output the filtered fluid at a first direction that is responsive to a position of the two or more movable panes.
Abstract:
A system for extraction of a pool cleaning robot from a pool, the system may include a base for receiving the pool cleaning robot; and at least one out of (a) an interface device and (b) a pool cleaner electrical power cable winding drum; wherein the interfacing device comprises an interfacing device portion that extends beyond and below the base during a part of the extraction of the pool cleaning robot from the pool; and wherein the pool cleaner electrical power cable winding drum is configured to wind and unwind a power cable of the pool cleaning robot during the part of the extraction of the pool cleaning robot from the pool.
Abstract:
A method and a set of pool cleaning robots for cleaning a pool. The set includes a first pool cleaning robot and a second pool cleaning robot that differ from each other by at least one unit out of a propulsion unit and a cleaning unit. Each one of the first pool cleaning robot and the second pool cleaning robot includes a filtering unit, a housing, and a controller.
Abstract:
A pool cleaning robot that may include a filtering unit for filtering water that passes through the pool cleaning robot; a sensor for sensing a cleanliness of the filtering unit while submerged in water; a controller that is configured to determine, based on the cleanliness of the filtering unit, a cleaning process to be applied on the pool cleaning robot by an external system; and a communication unit that is configured to transmit information about the cleaning process
Abstract:
A pool cleaning robot that includes a ballast tank for controlling a buoyancy of the submarine pool cleaner; at least one cleaning element for cleaning debris from an underwater surface of a pool while the pool cleaning robot hovers over the underwater surface; a propulsion module that is configured to propel the submersible pool cleaner; and a steering module that comprises a rudder and diving planes.
Abstract:
A pool cleaning robot, that may include a filter; a first impeller; a driving unit arranged to move the pool cleaning robot; an external housing that comprises a first inlet and a first outlet; a first pump motor arranged to rotate the first impeller; wherein when the first pump motor rotates the first impeller rotates along a first rotational direction causes fluid to be drawn through the first inlet and causes a first portion of the fluid to be filtered by the filter to provide filtered fluid that exits through the first outlet of the housing; wherein when the first pump motor rotates the first impeller rotates along a second rotational direction that is opposite to the first rotational direction, thereby performing a backwash operation of the filter.
Abstract:
An external docking station may be provided and may include a filter manipulator that is arranged to (i) input a filter into a pool cleaning robot that exited a pool and is located in a filter replacement position and to (ii) assist in positioning the filter at a filtering position in which the filter is at least partially disposed within a fluid path formed between a first fluid opening and a second fluid opening of the housing thereby allowing the filter to apply a filtering operation on fluid that passes through the fluid path.