CN113729568A

CN113729568A - Support and cleaning robot

Info

Publication number: CN113729568A
Application number: CN202111107061.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 赵健聪; 繆辉; 吴多智
Original assignee: Shenzhen Silver Star Intelligent Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen Silver Star Intelligent Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-09-22
Filing date: 2021-09-22
Publication date: 2021-12-03

Abstract

The invention belongs to the technical field of cleaning robots, and particularly relates to a support and a cleaning robot. The holder is configured to direct the liquid to the target. The support is provided with a switching cavity for accommodating a target object, the cavity wall of the switching cavity is provided with an avoidance groove communicated with an external space, two ends of the target object are respectively and rotatably connected with the cavity walls at two sides of the switching cavity, the side surface of the target object is exposed out of the switching cavity through the avoidance groove, the support is further provided with a water distribution runner, two ends of the water distribution runner respectively extend towards two switching ends of the target object, the surface of the support is provided with a water inlet hole for liquid to flow into the water distribution runner, the support is provided with a water outlet hole for liquid to flow out of the water distribution runner in the switching cavity, and the liquid is sprayed to the target object through the water outlet hole. According to the invention, the water distribution flow channel is directly arranged on the support, so that water can be sprayed to the rolling brush, and the water distribution flow channel does not need to be arranged on the sewage tank, so that the phenomenon of liquid dripping when the sewage tank is lifted independently is avoided.

Description

Support and cleaning robot

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the technical field of cleaning robots, and particularly relates to a support and a cleaning robot.

Background

The cleaning robot can be used for automatically cleaning the ground, and the application scene can be household indoor cleaning, large-scale place cleaning and the like.

The cleaning robot is of a sweeping robot or a mopping robot. The cleaning robot is provided with a cleaning member and a driving device. The cleaning robot performs self-movement according to a preset cleaning path under the driving of the driving device, and cleans the floor by the cleaning member. For the mopping robot, the cleaning part is a mopping part (such as a mop cloth) or a rolling brush, the rolling brush is connected to the mopping robot through the cleaning robot, a sewage tank is arranged on the cleaning robot, meanwhile, a liquid channel is formed in the sewage tank, and when the mopping robot is in use, the liquid channel continuously sprays clean water and wets the rolling brush of the mopping robot.

However, the current cleaning robot is generally provided with a flow channel for spraying clear water on the sewage tank, the flow channel on the sewage tank sprays water to the rolling brush, and when the sewage tank is separated or lifted independently, the clear water remained in the flow channel drops on the cleaned ground under the action of gravity, so that the use is inconvenient, and the customer experience is reduced.

Disclosure of Invention

An object of the embodiment of this application is to provide a support, aims at solving the problem how to carry out the water spray to the round brush.

In order to achieve the purpose, the technical scheme adopted by the application is as follows: providing a support, configured to guide liquid to a target object, wherein the support is provided with a switching cavity for accommodating the target object, the cavity wall of the switching cavity is provided with an avoiding groove communicated with an external space, two ends of the target object are respectively and rotatably connected with the cavity walls on two sides of the switching cavity, the side surface of the target object is exposed out of the switching cavity through the avoiding groove, the support is further provided with a water distribution runner, two ends of the water distribution runner respectively extend towards the two switching ends of the target object, the surface of the support is provided with a water inlet hole for the liquid to flow into the water distribution runner, the support is further provided with a water outlet hole for the liquid to flow out of the water distribution runner in the switching cavity, and the liquid is sprayed to the target object through the water outlet hole.

In one embodiment, the bracket includes a housing defining the adapter cavity and a water distribution member located in the adapter cavity, the water distribution member defines a water storage cavity having an opening, the cavity wall of the adapter cavity defines a positioning groove, the opening of the water storage cavity is in butt joint with a notch of the positioning groove, so that the housing and the water distribution member together form the water distribution channel, and the water outlet is located at the cavity bottom of the water storage cavity.

In one embodiment, the water distribution member comprises a bottom plate and a plurality of side plates connected with the bottom plate, the side plates are connected end to end and form a water storage cavity together with the bottom plate, the edge of each side plate is inserted into the positioning groove, and the water outlet hole is formed in the bottom plate.

In one embodiment, the two plate surfaces of the side plate are arranged in a non-parallel mode, and the thickness of the side plate is gradually increased towards the bottom plate.

In one embodiment, the water outlet holes are formed along the extending path of the water distribution channel, and the water outlet holes are sequentially arranged at intervals.

In one embodiment, the bracket further comprises a nozzle connected with the inner wall of the adapter cavity, the nozzle is communicated with the water outlet hole and is configured to spray the liquid to the target object.

In one embodiment, the inner wall of the adapter cavity is further provided with a containing cavity, the hole of the water outlet hole connected with the nozzle is located at the bottom of the containing cavity, and a groove is formed between the side surface of the nozzle and the wall of the containing cavity in a clearance manner.

In one embodiment, the bracket further comprises a partition plate located in the water storage cavity, two diversion grooves are formed between two side plate surfaces of the partition plate and two side cavity walls of the water storage cavity respectively, the water outlet hole is located in one of the diversion grooves, the bracket further comprises a diversion plate, one end of the diversion plate is connected with one end of the partition plate, and the other end of the diversion plate is bent towards one of the diversion grooves and is arranged in a gap with the corresponding cavity wall of the water storage cavity.

In one embodiment, two separation plates are arranged at intervals along a predetermined direction, the two separation plates are arranged in a collinear manner, one end of each separation plate is provided with a guide plate, and the free end of each guide plate is bent towards the wall of the water storage cavity.

Another object of the present application is to provide a cleaning robot, which includes the bracket as described above, the cleaning robot further includes a rolling brush and a driver connected to the bracket and driving the rolling brush to rotate, and the target is the rolling brush.

The beneficial effect of this application lies in: the support is provided with the switching cavity, and the rolling brush is rotatably arranged in the switching cavity. And then a water distribution flow channel is directly formed on the bracket, and liquid is directly sprayed to the rolling brush through a water outlet hole communicated with the water distribution flow channel. Meanwhile, the water distribution flow channel is arranged on the support, so that a flow channel for spraying liquid does not need to be arranged on a sewage tank of the cleaning robot, the phenomena of liquid hanging beads and liquid dripping when the sewage tank is lifted independently or separated from the support are avoided, and the customer experience is improved.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application, the drawings needed to be used in the embodiments or exemplary technical descriptions will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on the drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a bracket and a rolling brush provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is an exploded schematic view of the bracket and roller brush of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic drawing in partial section of the bracket, the waste tank and the clean water tank in one embodiment;

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the upper housing of FIG. 2;

FIG. 5 is a schematic perspective view of the water distribution member of FIG. 2;

FIG. 6 is a schematic perspective view of another embodiment of the water distribution member of FIG. 3;

FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of a portion of the water distribution member of FIG. 6 at A;

figure 8 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the water distributing member of figure 3 taken along the width of the bottom plate.

Wherein, in the figures, the respective reference numerals:

100 support

10 casing

11 upper shell

12 lower shell

20 driver

116 water inlet hole

30 water distributing piece

41 flow guide groove

111 switching cavity

112 avoiding groove

311 water storage cavity

32 water outlet

321 flow guiding surface

34 guide plate

33 divider plate

31 side plate

34 bottom plate

40 rolling brush

341 accommodating cavity

342 groove

35 nozzle

301 water distribution channel

51 clear water tank

52 waste water tank

521 sewage runner

101 positioning groove

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present application more apparent, the present application is described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the present application.

It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to" or "disposed on" another element, it can be directly on the other element or be indirectly on the other element. When an element is referred to as being "connected to" another element, it can be directly or indirectly connected to the other element. The terms "upper", "lower", "left", "right", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description, but do not indicate or imply that the referred devices or elements must have a specific orientation, be constructed in a specific orientation, and operate, and thus are not to be construed as limiting the present application, and the specific meanings of the above terms may be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations. The terms "first", "second" and "first" are used merely for descriptive purposes and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features. The meaning of "plurality" is two or more unless specifically limited otherwise.

Referring to fig. 1 and 3, a bracket 100 configured to guide a liquid to a target is provided according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Alternatively, the liquid is water, a mixed solution of water and other substances, or other liquid state substances. In this embodiment, the liquid is water, and the object is a brush roll 40 for cleaning the floor. By assembling the bracket 100 to the main body of the cleaning robot, the roll brush 40 mounted on the bracket 100 can be distributed with water, so that the roll brush 40 is kept wet. The bracket 100 is provided with an adapting cavity 111 for accommodating the rolling brush 40, the cavity wall of the adapting cavity 111 is provided with an avoiding groove 112 communicated with the external space, two ends of the rolling brush 40 are respectively rotatably connected with the cavity walls at two sides of the adapting cavity 111, and the side surface of the rolling brush 40 is partially exposed out of the adapting cavity 111 through the avoiding groove 112 so as to clean the ground. The bracket 100 is further provided with a water distribution channel 301, two ends of the water distribution channel 301 extend towards two switching ends of the rolling brush 40 respectively, optionally, the rolling brush 40 is horizontally arranged in the length direction during the working process, and the water distribution channel 301 is located above the rolling brush 40. The surface of the bracket 100 is provided with a water inlet 116 for liquid to flow into the water distribution channel 301, the bracket 100 is provided with a water outlet 32 for liquid to flow out of the water distribution channel 301 in the adapting cavity 111, and the liquid is sprayed to the rolling brush 40 through the water outlet 32. Alternatively, the liquid is injected into the water distribution flow passage 301 through the water inlet 116 by a water pump or a water injection mechanism, and then is injected onto the roller brush 40 through the water outlet 32. In this embodiment, the bracket 100 connects the sewage tank 52 and the clean water tank 51, the clean water tank 51 injects clean water into the water distribution flow path 301 through the water inlet 116, and the sewage tank 52 recovers sewage through the sewage flow path 521.

The adapter cavity 111 is opened on the bracket 100, and the rolling brush 40 is rotatably arranged in the adapter cavity 111. And a water distribution flow passage 301 is directly formed in the bracket 100, and liquid is directly sprayed to the rolling brush 40 through a water outlet 32 communicated with the water distribution flow passage 301. Meanwhile, the water distribution flow channel 301 is formed in the support 100, so that a flow channel for spraying liquid does not need to be formed in the sewage tank 52 of the cleaning robot, the phenomenon that liquid drops and hangs when the sewage tank 52 is lifted independently or separated from the support 100 can be avoided, and the customer experience is improved.

Referring to fig. 4 and 6, in an embodiment, the bracket 100 includes a housing 10 having an adapter cavity 111 and a water distribution member 30 located in the adapter cavity 111, the water distribution member 30 has a water storage cavity 311 having an opening, the cavity wall of the adapter cavity 111 has a positioning slot 101, the opening of the water storage cavity 311 is butted with the opening of the positioning slot 101, so that the housing 10 and the water distribution member 30 form a water distribution channel 301 together, and the water outlet 32 is formed at the bottom of the water storage cavity 311. Alternatively, the surface of the water distributor 30 facing the roller brush 40 forms part of the chamber wall of the adapter chamber 111. The open end of the water storage cavity 311 is inserted into the positioning groove 101, so that the water distribution member 30 is connected with the housing 10, and the water distribution channel 301 is formed.

Referring to fig. 1 and fig. 3, optionally, the extending direction of the water distribution channel 301 is arranged linearly; in other embodiments, the extending path of the water distribution channel 301 may also be curved.

In one embodiment, the water distribution member 30 includes a bottom plate 34 and a plurality of side plates 31 connected to the bottom plate 34, the side plates 31 are connected end to end and form a water storage cavity 311 together with the bottom plate 34, the edges of the side plates 31 are inserted into the positioning slots 101, and the water outlet holes 32 are opened in the bottom plate 34. Alternatively, the bottom plate 34 and the side plate 31 are made of plastic material and are integrally formed by an injection molding process. The water storage chamber 311 stores liquid therein.

Referring to fig. 4 and 6, in an embodiment, two plate surfaces of the side plate 31 are disposed non-parallel, the thickness of the side plate 31 increases toward the bottom plate 34, and the shape of the positioning groove 101 is adapted to the shape of the side plate 31. Optionally, in the process of inserting the positioning groove 101 into each side plate 31, since the thickness of the plate inserted into the positioning groove 101 by the side plate 31 is continuously increased, the connection between the water distribution member 30 and the housing 10 can be fastened through the side plate 31 and the positioning groove 101 without adding other connecting members, and the assembly and disassembly are convenient.

Referring to fig. 4 and 6, in an embodiment, a plurality of water outlet holes 32 are formed along the extending path of the water distribution channel 301, and the water outlet holes 32 are sequentially spaced. Optionally, the outlet holes 32 are arranged linearly.

In one embodiment, the bracket 100 further includes a nozzle 35 connected to the inner wall of the adapter 111, the nozzle 35 communicating with the outlet hole 32 and configured to spray the liquid to the roller brush 40. Alternatively, one end of the nozzle 35 is connected to the outer plate surface of the bottom plate 34, and the other end of the nozzle 35 extends into the adapter cavity 111 and is protruded relative to the outer plate surface of the bottom plate 34. The nozzle 35 has an internal flow passage communicating with the nozzle hole 32, and the liquid flowing out of the nozzle hole 32 is sprayed toward the drum brush 40 through the nozzle 35. Alternatively, the liquid is sprayed to the roller brush 40 through the nozzle 35, so that the liquid is prevented from moving laterally along the edge of the hole of the water outlet hole 32, and the effectiveness of the water spray of the roller brush 40 is improved.

Referring to fig. 4 and 6, in an embodiment, the inner wall of the adapter cavity 111 further defines a receiving cavity 341, the opening of the water outlet 32 connected with the nozzle 35 is located at the bottom of the receiving cavity 341, and a groove 342 is formed between the side surface of the nozzle 35 and the wall of the receiving cavity 341. Optionally, by providing the groove 342, not only can the liquid be prevented from forming a hanging bead around the liquid outlet of the nozzle 35, but also a part of the liquid can be contained in the groove 342. The nozzle 35 disposed in the accommodating chamber 341 can also reduce the overall thickness of the water distribution member 30, which is beneficial to the compactness of the structure of the bracket 100.

Referring to fig. 4 and 6, in one embodiment, the nozzle 35 is completely received in the receiving chamber 341. Optionally, the nozzle 35 is completely accommodated in the accommodating cavity 341, which not only reduces the overall height of the bracket 100, but also facilitates the installation of the bracket 100, and avoids collision between the protruding nozzle 35 and other structural members.

In one embodiment, the receiving cavity 341 has a circular or polygonal cross-sectional shape, and optionally, the receiving cavity 341 has a circular cross-sectional shape in this embodiment.

Referring to fig. 4 and 6, in one embodiment, the cross-sectional shape of the nozzle 35 is circular or polygonal. Alternatively, the cross-sectional shape of the nozzle 35 in this embodiment is circular.

Alternatively, the nozzle 35 and the base plate 34 are integrally formed. Alternatively, the nozzle 35 and the base plate 34 are integrally formed through an injection molding process, thereby allowing mass production and cost reduction.

In one embodiment, the water outlet 32 is provided with a diversion surface 321 at the edge of the opening of the water storage cavity 311. Optionally, the flow guiding surface 321 is a conical surface, so that the liquid in the water storage cavity 311 can flow into the water outlet hole 32 and then be sprayed to the roller brush 40 through the nozzle 35.

Referring to fig. 7 and 8, in an embodiment, the rack 100 further includes a partition plate 33 located in the water storage cavity 311, two guide slots 41 are respectively formed between two side plates 31 of the partition plate 33 and two side cavity walls of the water storage cavity 311, the water outlet hole 32 is located in one of the guide slots 41, the rack 100 further includes a guide plate 34, one end of the guide plate 34 is connected to one end of the partition plate 33, and the other end of the guide plate 34 is bent toward one of the guide slots 41 and is disposed in a gap with the corresponding cavity wall of the water storage cavity 311.

Optionally, the housing 10 further has a positioning groove 101 formed on the inner wall of the adapting cavity 111 at a position corresponding to the baffle 34 and the partition plate 33, and one end of the baffle 34 and one end of the partition plate 33 are inserted into the corresponding positioning groove 101.

Referring to fig. 4 and 6, optionally, the diversion plate 34 is close to the water inlet 116, so that the liquid injected into the water storage cavity 311 can be diverted to the two diversion grooves 41.

Alternatively, the baffle 34 and the partition 33 are integrally formed.

Referring to fig. 7 and 8, optionally, in the present embodiment, the bottom plate 34 is disposed in a long strip shape, the extending path of the guiding groove 41 is disposed along the length direction of the bottom plate 34, the guiding groove 41 can enable the injected liquid to be disposed in the whole water storage cavity 311, and when a plurality of water outlet holes 32 are formed, the plurality of water outlet holes 32 can uniformly discharge water.

In one embodiment, two partition plates 33 are arranged at intervals along a predetermined direction, two partition plates 33 are arranged in a line, and one end of each partition plate 33 is provided with a flow guide plate 34, and the free end of each flow guide plate 34 is bent towards the wall of the water storage cavity 311. Alternatively, a plurality of partition plates 33 are intermittently provided, so that the uniformity of the distribution of the liquid from the injection water storage chamber 311 can be improved. It is understood that in other embodiments, three or more partition plates 33 may be provided.

In one embodiment, the water outlet holes 32 are spaced at intervals, and the number of the nozzles 35 is adapted to the number of the water outlet holes 32 and is arranged in a one-to-one correspondence.

Referring to fig. 7 and 8, the water outlets 32 are located in the same guiding channel 41.

In one embodiment, each nozzle 35 is linearly arranged along a predetermined direction.

In one embodiment, each nozzle 35 is non-linearly arranged along a predetermined direction.

Referring to fig. 1 and fig. 3, the present invention further provides a cleaning robot, which includes a bracket 100, and the specific structure of the bracket 100 refers to the above embodiments, and since the cleaning robot adopts all technical solutions of all the above embodiments, the cleaning robot also has all the beneficial effects brought by the technical solutions of the above embodiments, and details are not repeated herein.

Referring to fig. 1 and 3, in one embodiment, the cleaning robot further includes a roller brush 40 and a driver 20 connected to the bracket 100 and driving the roller brush 40 to rotate.

Optionally, the housing 10 includes an upper housing 11 and a lower housing 12 connected to the upper housing 11, and the upper housing 11 and the lower housing 12 together form the adaptor cavity 111.

Alternatively, the surface of the bottom plate 34 may be disposed at a predetermined angle to the horizontal.

Alternatively, the water inlet 116 is opened in the upper housing 11, and the water injection mechanism injects the liquid into the water distribution flow passage 301 through the water inlet 116. The avoidance groove 112 is provided in the lower case 12.

Alternatively, the driver 20 is an electric motor which is connected to the upper housing 11 and drives the roller brush 40 to rotate through a coupling and gear structure.

The above are merely alternative embodiments of the present application and are not intended to limit the present application. Various modifications and changes may occur to those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement or the like made within the spirit and principle of the present application shall be included in the scope of the claims of the present application.

Claims

1. A support is configured to guide liquid to a target object, and is characterized in that the support is provided with a switching cavity for accommodating the target object, the cavity wall of the switching cavity is provided with an avoiding groove communicated with an external space, two ends of the target object are respectively and rotatably connected with the cavity walls on two sides of the switching cavity, the side surface of the target object is exposed out of the switching cavity through the avoiding groove, the support is further provided with a water distribution flow channel, two ends of the water distribution flow channel respectively extend towards the two switching ends of the target object, the surface of the support is provided with a water inlet hole for the liquid to flow into the water distribution flow channel, the support is further provided with a water outlet hole for the liquid to flow out of the water distribution flow channel in the switching cavity, and the liquid is sprayed to the target object through the water outlet hole.

2. The stent of claim 1, wherein: the support is including seting up the casing in switching chamber and being located the water distribution spare in switching chamber, the water distribution spare is seted up and is had the open-ended water storage chamber, the constant head tank has been seted up to the chamber wall in switching chamber, the opening in water storage chamber with the notch butt joint of constant head tank, so that the casing with the water distribution spare forms jointly the water distribution runner, the apopore is seted up at the bottom of the chamber in water storage chamber.

3. The bracket of claim 2, wherein: the water distribution piece comprises a bottom plate and a plurality of side plates connected with the bottom plate, the side plates are connected end to end and form a water storage cavity together with the bottom plate, the edge of each side plate is inserted into the positioning groove, and the water outlet hole is formed in the bottom plate.

4. The bracket of claim 3, wherein: the two plate surfaces of the side plate are arranged in a non-parallel mode, and the thickness of the side plate is gradually increased towards the bottom plate.

5. The stent of any one of claims 1-4, wherein: the water outlet holes are arranged along the extending path of the water distribution flow channel, and the water outlet holes are sequentially arranged at intervals.

6. The stent of any one of claims 1-4, wherein: the bracket also comprises a nozzle connected with the inner wall of the switching cavity, and the nozzle is communicated with the water outlet and is configured to spray the liquid to the target object.

7. The bracket of claim 6, wherein: the inner wall of the switching cavity is further provided with a containing cavity, the water outlet hole is connected with an orifice of the nozzle and is positioned at the cavity bottom of the containing cavity, and a groove is formed between the side surface of the nozzle and the cavity wall of the containing cavity in a clearance mode.

8. The stent of any one of claims 2-4, wherein: the support is still including being located the division board in the water storage cavity, the both sides face of division board with form two guiding gutters between the both sides chamber wall in water storage cavity respectively, the apopore is located one of them guiding gutter, the support still includes the guide plate, the one end of guide plate is connected the one end of division board, and the other end of guide plate is towards one of them the guiding gutter internal bend sets up and with correspond the chamber wall clearance in water storage cavity sets up.

9. The bracket of claim 8, wherein: the partition plates are arranged at intervals along a preset direction, the two partition plates are arranged in a collinear manner, a guide plate is arranged at one end of each partition plate, and the free end of each guide plate faces the cavity wall of the water storage cavity in a bending mode.

10. A cleaning robot comprising the holder according to any one of claims 1 to 9, and further comprising a roll brush and a driver connected to the holder and driving the roll brush to rotate, wherein the target is the roll brush.