CN111358393A

CN111358393A - Base station and cleaning robot suite

Info

Publication number: CN111358393A
Application number: CN202010346740.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 杨勇; 刘纯旺; 杜敦成
Original assignee: Shenzhen 3irobotix Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen 3irobotix Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-04-27
Filing date: 2020-04-27
Publication date: 2020-07-03

Abstract

The application discloses basic station and cleaning machines people external member. The base station is used for charging and/or cleaning the cleaning robot. The base station includes a body and a trailer mechanism. The body has a compartment within which a working slot is formed for access by the cleaning robot so that the cleaning robot can be charged and/or cleaned in the working slot. The trailer mechanism comprises a driving assembly and a trailer part, the driving assembly is arranged on the body, the trailer part is located in the cabin and connected with the driving assembly, the trailer mechanism is configured to drag the cleaning robot through the trailer part, and the cleaning robot is dragged to the working groove under the driving of the driving assembly. The technical scheme that this application provided can solve the problem that cleaning robot is difficult to get into in the basic station.

Description

Base station and cleaning robot suite

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of cleaning robots, in particular to a base station and a cleaning robot suite.

Background

In recent years, with the development of social economy and the improvement of the domestic living standard, furniture cleaning gradually enters an intelligent and mechanized era, and a cleaning robot produced by transportation can free people from household cleaning work, effectively reduce the workload of people in the aspect of household cleaning, and relieve the fatigue degree of people in the household cleaning process.

In the prior art, cleaning robot systems with base stations have appeared. The cleaning robot needs to enter the base station through the backward climbing action, and the cleaning robot cannot easily enter the base station because the backward climbing angle of the cleaning robot is small.

Disclosure of Invention

The application provides a basic station and cleaning machines people external member, it can solve the problem that cleaning machines people are difficult to get into in the basic station.

In a first aspect, embodiments of the present invention provide a base station for charging and/or cleaning a cleaning robot. The base station includes a body and a trailer mechanism.

The body has a compartment within which a working slot is formed for access by the cleaning robot so that the cleaning robot can be charged and/or cleaned in the working slot.

The trailer mechanism comprises a driving assembly and a trailer part, the driving assembly is arranged on the body, the trailer part is located in the cabin and connected with the driving assembly, the trailer mechanism is configured to drag the cleaning robot through the trailer part, and the cleaning robot is dragged to the working groove under the driving of the driving assembly.

In the scheme, the technical scheme capable of helping the cleaning robot to easily enter the base station for charging and/or cleaning is provided. A working groove for charging and/or cleaning the cleaning robot is formed in the cabin of the body of the base station, and the cleaning robot needs to climb into the cabin of the body when needing to be charged and/or cleaned. Cleaning machines people among the prior art, its back climbing ability is weak, be difficult to light get into the work groove fast, in order to make cleaning machines people light get into the work groove fast, the basic station includes trailer mechanism, trailer mechanism includes drive assembly and trailer portion, when cleaning machines people goes and is close to the basic station, trailer mechanism work, make trailer portion can drag and hang in cleaning machines people, drive assembly can drive trailer portion simultaneously and drag cleaning machines people to the work groove in, thereby cleaning machines people charges and/or clean in the work groove.

In an alternative embodiment, the body includes a base and a base cover.

The base cover is connected to the top end of the base to form a cabin together with the base, one end of the base is open to form an inlet and outlet for the cleaning robot to enter and exit the cabin, and the base cover is provided with a trailer track for the trailer to move.

The driving assembly is arranged on the base cover and drives the trailer part to move in the trailer track.

In an alternative embodiment, the base is formed with a ramp that slopes upwardly from the access opening to the working channel.

In an alternative embodiment, the surface of the ramp is provided with two juxtaposed guiding flanges configured to guide the driving wheels of the cleaning robot.

In an optional embodiment, the driving assembly comprises a motor and a screw rod assembly, the motor is fixed on the base cover, the motor drives the screw rod assembly, a screw rod in the screw rod assembly extends along the extending direction of the trailer track, a screw rod nut in the screw rod assembly is connected with the trailer part, and the trailer part is slidably embedded in the trailer track.

In an alternative embodiment, the trailer portion comprises a hook configured to be snapped to the cleaning robot.

In an alternative embodiment, the trailer part further comprises a sliding seat, a spring and an electromagnet;

the sliding seat is connected with the execution end of the driving assembly, one end of the hook is hinged to the sliding seat, and the electromagnet and the spring are arranged between the hook and the sliding seat; the trailer part is configured to be rotated against an elastic force of a spring by an electromagnet operating to attract the hook, thereby being buckled to the cleaning robot.

In an optional embodiment, the hook is sunk upwards to form a fixed groove, and an adsorption block is fixed in the fixed groove and is used for being in adsorption fit with the electromagnet;

the electromagnet is fixed on the sliding seat, one end of the spring is abutted to the adsorption block, and the other end of the spring is abutted to the electromagnet.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a cleaning robot kit, including:

a cleaning robot and the base station of any of the preceding embodiments;

the chassis of the cleaning robot is provided with a mopping device, the base station is provided with a cleaning device for cleaning the mopping device, and the cleaning device is arranged in the working groove.

In an alternative embodiment, the cleaning robot has a protruding radome;

the trailer portion of the trailer mechanism is towed to the radome.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the drawings that are required to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below, it should be understood that the following drawings only illustrate some embodiments of the present application and therefore should not be considered as limiting the scope, and for those skilled in the art, other related drawings can be obtained from the drawings without inventive effort.

Fig. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a cleaning robot set according to the present embodiment, and shows a state when a cleaning robot travels to close to a base station;

fig. 2 is a sectional view of the cleaning robot kit according to the present embodiment, and shows a state where the cleaning robot is pulled by the trailer part;

fig. 3 is a sectional view of the cleaning robot kit according to the present embodiment, and shows a state where the cleaning robot enters the work tank;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a base station in this embodiment;

fig. 5 is a perspective exploded view of the base station in the present embodiment;

fig. 6 is a schematic view of the trailer part in this embodiment.

Icon: 10-a cleaning robot kit;

20-a cleaning robot; 21-a mopping device; 22-a radome;

30-a base station; 31-a body; 32-a trailer mechanism; 310-a base; 311-base cover; 312-an upper cover; 320-a drive assembly; 321-a trailer part; 3200-a motor; 3201-a lead screw assembly; 3202-lead screw; 3203-screw nut; 3210-hook; 3211-sliding seat; 3212-spring; 3213-an electromagnet;

60-fixed groove; 61-an adsorption block; 62-a rotating shaft; 63-barbs; 64-opening a hole;

70-a slope; 71-a guide flange;

80-trailer rails;

90-a cabin; 91-working groove.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present application clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. The components of the embodiments of the present application, generally described and illustrated in the figures herein, can be arranged and designed in a wide variety of different configurations.

Thus, the following detailed description of the embodiments of the present application, presented in the accompanying drawings, is not intended to limit the scope of the claimed application, but is merely representative of selected embodiments of the application. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

It should be noted that: like reference numbers and letters refer to like items in the following figures, and thus, once an item is defined in one figure, it need not be further defined and explained in subsequent figures.

In the description of the embodiments of the present application, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", and the like, refer to the orientation or positional relationship as shown in the drawings, or as conventionally placed in use of the product of the application, or as conventionally understood by those skilled in the art, and are used merely for convenience of description and for simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed in a particular orientation, and be operated, and therefore should not be considered as limiting the present application.

In the description of the embodiments of the present application, it should also be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly stated or limited, the terms "disposed," "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly and may, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood in a specific case by those of ordinary skill in the art.

It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict.

The technical solution in the present application will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The present embodiment provides a cleaning robot kit 10, and the cleaning robot kit 10 includes a cleaning robot 20 and a base station 30.

Please refer to fig. 1-5. Fig. 1 shows a sectional structure of the cleaning robot kit 10 in the present embodiment, and shows a state when the cleaning robot 20 travels to approach the base station 30.

Fig. 2 shows a sectional structure of the cleaning robot kit 10 in the present embodiment, and shows a state where the cleaning robot 20 is pulled by the pulling part 321.

Fig. 3 shows a sectional structure of the cleaning robot kit 10 in the present embodiment, and shows a state where the cleaning robot 20 enters the work tank 91.

Fig. 4 shows a specific structure of the base station 30 in the present embodiment. Fig. 5 shows a three-dimensional explosion structure of the base station 30 in the present embodiment.

The base station 30 comprises a body 31 and a trailer mechanism 32.

The body 31 has a compartment 90 formed therein with a working groove 91, the compartment 90 being used for the cleaning robot 20 to enter and exit so that the cleaning robot 20 can be charged and cleaned in the working groove 91.

Here, the cleaning robot 20 is used for automatic cleaning including mopping of the floor surface. In this embodiment, the chassis of the cleaning robot 20 is provided with a mopping device 21 (the mopping device 21 is a conventional device for mopping the floor).

The base station 30 has a cleaning device (not shown in the figure, the cleaning device is used for cleaning the mopping device 21, and may be an ultrasonic cleaning device for performing ultrasonic cleaning on the mopping device 21, or a rotary protrusion structure for performing cleaning work such as scraping off sewage from the mopping device 21 by rotating and abutting friction), and the cleaning device is disposed in the working tank 91. The base station 30 is used to charge the cleaning robot 20 and to clean the mopping device 21 of the cleaning robot 20 by the cleaning device. In other embodiments, the base station 30 may be used only to charge the cleaning robot 20, or only to clean the mopping device 21 of the cleaning robot 20.

The towing mechanism 32 includes a driving assembly 320 and a towing portion 321, the driving assembly 320 is disposed on the body 31, the towing portion 321 is located in the cabin 90 and connected to the driving assembly 320, and the towing mechanism 32 is configured to tow the cleaning robot 20 through the towing portion 321 and to tow the cleaning robot 20 to the working tank 91 under the driving of the driving assembly 320.

In the present embodiment, the cleaning robot 20 has a protruding radome 22, and the trailer portion 321 of the trailer mechanism 32 is hung on the radome 22. In other embodiments, the towing part 321 may act on other locations of the cleaning robot 20 to enable the cleaning robot 20 to be towed into the work tank 91.

In the above-described scheme, a technical scheme capable of helping the cleaning robot 20 to easily enter the base station 30 for charging and cleaning is provided. A working groove 91 for charging and cleaning the cleaning robot 20 is formed in the cabin 90 of the main body 31 of the base station 30, and when the cleaning robot 20 needs to be charged and cleaned, it needs to retreat and climb into the cabin 90 of the main body 31 (its retreat means that the cleaning robot 20 normally travels in the forward direction, and conversely, in the retreat direction). However, since the working groove 91 is formed in the cabin 90 higher than the bottom surface to be cleaned by the cleaning robot 20, the cleaning robot 20 has to climb up to the cabin 90, but the cleaning robot 20 in the prior art has a weak backward climbing ability and is difficult to easily and quickly enter the working groove 91, so that the cleaning robot 20 easily and quickly enters the working groove 91:

the base station 30 includes a trailer mechanism 32, the trailer mechanism 32 includes a driving assembly 320 and a trailer portion 321, and when the cleaning robot 20 travels to be close to the base station 30, the trailer mechanism 32 operates so that the trailer portion 321 can be towed to the cleaning robot 20, and at the same time, the driving assembly 320 can drive the trailer portion 321 to tow the cleaning robot 20 into the work tank 91, so that the cleaning robot 20 is charged and cleaned in the work tank 91.

The body 31 includes a base 310 and a base cover 311.

The base cover 311 is connected to a top end of the base 310 to form the chamber 90 together with the base 310, one end of the base 310 is opened to form an entrance for the cleaning robot 20 to enter and exit the chamber 90, and the base cover 311 is formed with a trailer rail 80 for the trailer part 321 to move. The driving assembly 320 is disposed on the base cover 311 and drives the trailer portion 321 to move in the trailer track 80.

Wherein the driving assembly 320 and the towing part 321 are accommodated in the inner cavity of the base cover 311, and the towing part 321 can pass through the towing rail 80 and can tow the cleaning robot 20. An upper cover 312 is provided at the top end of the base cover 311 to protect the shelter trailer mechanism 32 for aesthetic purposes and to protect the drive assembly 320.

In order to guide the cleaning robot 20 smoothly into the work tank 91 and reduce power consumption of the driving assembly 320, the base 310 is formed with a slope 70, and the slope 70 is inclined upward to the work tank 91 from the entrance/exit.

The surface of the ramp 70 is provided with two guide flanges 71 arranged in parallel (due to the shielding of other structures, only one guide flange 71 can be seen in fig. 5), the two guide flanges 71 are configured to guide the driving wheels of the cleaning robot 20, and the driving wheels of the cleaning robot 20 abut against the guide flanges 71, so that the positioning function is achieved.

It should be noted that in other embodiments, the guide flange 71 of the ramp 70 may be eliminated, and the cleaning robot 20 may be directly dragged into the work groove 91 by the operation of the trailer mechanism 32.

In other embodiments, the ramp 70 may be eliminated, and the operation of the trailer mechanism 32, together with the buffering of the driving wheels of the cleaning robot 20, directly causes the cleaning robot 20 to climb from the entrance/exit of the cabin 90 and finally drag into the working groove 91.

In this embodiment, the driving assembly 320 includes a motor 3200 and a screw rod assembly 3201, the motor 3200 is fixed to the base cover 311, the motor 3200 drives the screw rod assembly 3201, a screw rod 3202 in the screw rod assembly 3201 extends along the extending direction of the trailer track 80, a screw rod nut 3203 in the screw rod assembly 3201 is connected to the trailer portion 321, and the trailer portion 321 is slidably embedded in the trailer track 80.

Wherein, through mutually supporting of trailer track 80 and trailer portion 321 for trailer portion 321 can be at the directional displacement that trailer track 80 extends, through the cooperation of lead screw nut 3203 and lead screw 3202, when motor 3200 drive lead screw 3202 rotates, can make trailer portion 321 move along the direction that trailer track 80 extends. In other embodiments, the driving assembly 320 may be in other driving structures, for example, the driving assembly 320 may be a belt driving assembly 320, and the trailer portion 321 is disposed on a belt in the belt driving assembly 320 and follows the belt.

Referring to fig. 6, fig. 6 shows a specific structure of the trailer 321 in the present embodiment.

In this embodiment, the trailer 321 includes a hook 3210, a sliding seat 3211, a spring 3212, and an electromagnet 3213.

The sliding seat 3211 is connected to an executing end of the driving assembly 320 (in this embodiment, the sliding seat 3211 is fixed to the lead screw nut 3203), one end of the hook 3210 is hinged to the sliding seat 3211, and the electromagnet 3213 and the spring 3212 are disposed between the hook 3210 and the sliding seat 3211. The trailer part 321 is configured to be operated by an electromagnet 3213 to suck the hook 3210 to rotate against the elastic force of the spring 3212, thereby being fastened to the cleaning robot 20.

Referring to fig. 1, the electromagnet 3213 in fig. 1 does not operate, the hook 3210 is held in place by the spring 3212 and is located in the trailer track 80, referring to fig. 2, the electromagnet 3213 in fig. 2 operates, the electromagnet 3213 adsorbs the hook 3210, so that the hook 3210 compresses the spring 3212 and rotates relative to the sliding seat 3211, thereby the hook 3210 is exposed from the trailer track 80, the exposed hook 3210 acts on the radome 22 of the cleaning robot 20, and then, referring to fig. 3, the hook 3210 drags the cleaning robot 20 to move along the extension direction of the trailer track 80 under the driving of the motor 3200. Wherein, trailer track 80 is the pore structure, and it plays the guide effect, and simultaneously, couple 3210 can pass trailer track 80, acts on cleaning machines people 20.

The hook 3210 is recessed upward to form a fixing groove 60, and an adsorption block 61 is fixed in the fixing groove 60 and used for being adsorbed and matched with the electromagnet 3213. In other embodiments, the adsorption block 61 is not provided, and the hook 3210 may be made of a material capable of magnetically adsorbing and cooperating with the electromagnet 3213.

The electromagnet 3213 is fixed to the sliding seat 3211, one end of the spring 3212 abuts against the attraction block 61, and the other end of the spring 3212 abuts against the electromagnet 3213.

One end of the hook 3210 is hinged to the sliding seat 3211 through the rotating shaft 62, the other end of the hook 3210 extends downward to form a barb 63 for pulling the cleaning robot 20, the sliding seat 3211 is provided with an opening 64 for the barb 63 to penetrate, when the electromagnet 3213 works, the hook 3210 compresses the spring 3212 and rotates relative to the sliding seat 3211, and the barb 63 penetrates out of the opening 64, so as to act on the radome 22.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present application and is not intended to limit the present application, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present application shall be included in the protection scope of the present application.

Claims

1. A base station for charging and/or cleaning a cleaning robot, characterized in that,

the base station comprises a body and a trailer mechanism;

the body has a compartment in which a working slot is formed for the cleaning robot to enter and exit so that the cleaning robot can be charged and/or cleaned in the working slot;

the trailer mechanism comprises a driving assembly and a trailer part, the driving assembly is arranged on the body, the trailer part is located in the cabin and connected with the driving assembly, and the trailer mechanism is configured to drag the cleaning robot through the trailer part and drag the cleaning robot to the working groove under the driving of the driving assembly.

2. The base station of claim 1,

the body comprises a base and a base cover;

the base cover is connected to the top end of the base to form a cabin together with the base, one end of the base is opened to form an entrance and exit for the cleaning robot to enter and exit the cabin, and the base cover is provided with a trailer track for the trailer to move;

3. The base station of claim 2,

the base is formed with a slope that slopes upward from the access opening to the working channel.

4. The base station of claim 3,

the surface of the ramp is provided with two juxtaposed guiding flanges configured to guide the driving wheels of the cleaning robot.

5. The base station of claim 2,

the driving assembly comprises a motor and a lead screw assembly, the motor is fixed on the base cover, the motor drives the lead screw assembly, a lead screw in the lead screw assembly extends along the extending direction of the trailer track, a lead screw nut in the lead screw assembly is connected with the trailer part, and the trailer part is slidably embedded in the trailer track.

6. The base station of claim 1,

the trailer portion includes a hook configured to be fastened to the cleaning robot.

7. The base station of claim 6,

the trailer part also comprises a sliding seat, a spring and an electromagnet;

the sliding seat is connected with the execution end of the driving assembly, one end of the hook is hinged to the sliding seat, and the electromagnet and the spring are arranged between the hook and the sliding seat; the trailer part is configured to be operated by the electromagnet to attract the hook to rotate against the elastic force of the spring so as to be buckled to the cleaning robot.

8. The base station of claim 7,

the hook is sunken upwards to form a fixed groove, and an adsorption block is fixed in the fixed groove and is used for being in adsorption fit with the electromagnet;

9. A cleaning robot kit, comprising:

a cleaning robot and the base station of any one of claims 1-8;

10. The cleaning robot kit of claim 9,

the cleaning robot has a protruding radome;

the trailer portion of the trailer mechanism is towed to the radome.