Electric vacuum cleaner
    81.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10154767B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-18

    申请号:US15305000

    申请日:2015-04-22

    摘要: An electric vacuum cleaner includes a main body case, driving wheels, and a cleaning portion. The main body case includes an electric blower, and a dust collecting portion communicating with a suction side of the electric blower. The driving wheels allow the main body case to travel on the surface to be cleaned. The cleaning portion includes a main body portion, the suction port, and wheels. The main body portion with a bottom surface portion facing the surface to be cleaned is located in a lower portion of the main body case and can move up and down. The suction port is provided on the bottom surface portion and communicates with the dust collecting portion. The wheels protrude downward from the bottom surface portion to contact the surface to be cleaned, thereby causing the main body portion to move up and down to trace the surface to be cleaned.

    VACUUM CLEANER
    82.
    发明申请
    VACUUM CLEANER 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20180296049A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-18

    申请号:US15768360

    申请日:2016-10-12

    摘要: A vacuum cleaner having improved obstacle detection precision. The vacuum cleaner includes a main casing, driving wheels, control unit, cameras, an image generation part, and a discrimination part. The driving wheels enable the main casing to travel. The control unit controls drive of the driving wheels to make the main casing autonomously travel. The cameras are disposed apart from each other in the main casing to pick up images on a traveling-direction side of the main casing. The image generation part generates a distance image of an object positioned on the traveling-direction side based on the images picked up by the cameras. The discrimination part discriminates whether or not the picked-up object is an obstacle based on the distance image generated by the image generation part.

    Self-propelled device
    83.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10048694B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-14

    申请号:US15109354

    申请日:2015-01-09

    发明人: Kouichi Abe

    IPC分类号: G05D1/02

    摘要: A vacuum cleaner includes a first transmitting unit transmitting a signal including first identification information with directivity of a predetermined width, and a first receiving unit receiving a signal with directivity wider than directivity of the first transmitting unit. A charger includes a second receiving unit receiving the signal including the first identification information, and a second transmitting unit transmitting a signal including second identification information when the second receiving unit receives the signal including the first identification information. A first control unit controls, when the signal including the second identification information is received by the first receiving unit, drive of a motor to allow a body case to travel based on a direction that the signal including the first identification information is transmitted.

    AUTONOMOUS TRAVELING BODY AND VACUUM CLEANER
    86.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170235309A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-17

    申请号:US15503867

    申请日:2015-08-21

    发明人: Syu NAKANISHI

    IPC分类号: G05D1/02 A47L9/04 A47L9/28

    摘要: A vacuum cleaner capable of smoothly traveling along an obstacle. A control unit has modes of travel control and directional change control. In the travel control, while a distance between a main casing and a sideward obstacle detected by a distance measuring sensor is kept within a specified distance range, a motor is driven so as to make the main casing travel along the obstacle. In the directional change control, when an obstacle forward of the main casing is detected by a contact sensor during the travel control, the motor is driven so as to make the main casing change in advancing direction along the detected forward obstacle. The directional change control includes at least swing control for driving the motor so as to make the main casing swing to a specified swing angle while disregarding a distance detected by the distance measuring sensor.

    AUTONOMOUS TRAVELING BODY DEVICE
    88.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170231452A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-17

    申请号:US15503520

    申请日:2015-08-21

    IPC分类号: A47L9/28

    摘要: In a first mode, a control unit controls operation of driving wheels so that a main casing is made to travel straight and, upon detection of an object by an object sensor, the main casing is changed in traveling direction and made to travel straight. In a second mode, the control unit controls the operation of the driving wheels so that the main casing travels in a curved shape along an object detected by the object sensor. When a charging device is not found by a signal reception part during traveling within a region by the first mode, the control unit is changed over to the second mode. The control unit is changed over to the first mode when it is decided a specified number of times or more that the main casing has moved to a different region by the second mode.

    VACUUM CLEANER
    90.
    发明申请
    VACUUM CLEANER 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20170181593A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-06-29

    申请号:US15304899

    申请日:2015-04-22

    IPC分类号: A47L9/28 A47L9/04 A47L9/00

    摘要: A vacuum cleaner includes a main casing, driving wheels, side brushes, an obstacle sensor, and a controller. The driving wheels enable the main casing to travel. The side brushes are reciprocatively movable in both a direction of protruding from an outer frame of the main casing and its opposite direction, enabling cleaning of dust and dirt located outside the outer frame of the main casing. The obstacle sensor detects an obstacle by detecting a movement of the side brush in the opposite direction due to its contact with the obstacle. The controller controls drive of the driving wheels based on detection of an obstacle by the obstacle sensor to make the main casing autonomously travel. The vacuum cleaner can detect an obstacle at a position of a side brush while securely cleaning dust and dirt located outside an outer frame of a main casing by the side brush.