公开(公告)号：US20180206686A1

公开(公告)日：2018-07-26

申请号：US15329448

申请日：2015-10-06

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Motonobu SHIGETO ,  Kenji WATANABE ,  Hideharu OGAHARA ,  Shinichi MATSUMURA

IPC: A47L9/28 ,  A47L9/04

CPC classification number: A47L9/2847 ,  A47L9/0411 ,  A47L2201/04 ,  A47L2201/06

Abstract: Once it is determined in Step S2 that a corner has been detected, a control unit causes a body to perform a reciprocating motion and initiate corner cleaning in Step S3. Then, once it is determined in Step S4 that a rubbish detection sensor detects no rubbish, the corner cleaning is terminated in Step S6. Once it is determined in Step S4 that the rubbish detection sensor detects rubbish, the corner cleaning continues to be executed by the body being caused to perform the reciprocating motion in Step S5. In other words, an autonomous travel-type cleaner is realized that can remove a large amount of the rubbish accumulating at the corner by causing the body to perform the reciprocating motion.