CN114468897A - Base station for maintaining floor sweeping robot - Google Patents

Abstract

The application discloses a basic station for maintaining robot of sweeping floor, the maintenance tray of this basic station has the execution disk body that is used for carrying out the maintenance operation to the robot of sweeping floor of parking, wherein, this execution disk body is based on elevating system's adjustable support, can the translation lift between first high position and second high position to, coupling mechanism can be arranged to this execution disk body. Because coupling mechanism can produce controllable coupling force to, this controllable coupling force is greater than the sustainable coupling force that the robot of sweeping the floor will clean the subassembly and retrain in the bottom, consequently, based on controllable coupling force that coupling mechanism produced and elevating system to the cooperation between the lift adjustment of the execution disk body at coupling mechanism place, can realize cleaning the automatic dismouting of module in the robot bottom of sweeping the floor.

Description

Base station for maintaining floor sweeping robot

Technical Field

The application relates to the field of sweeper, in particular to a base station for maintaining a sweeping robot.

Background

The sweeping robot can execute ground cleaning tasks in any scene space, wherein the sweeping robot can selectively realize the function of dust removal and cleaning or the function of wiping and cleaning by using wiping media such as rags or the like or the combined function of dust removal and cleaning based on the configuration of the hardware module.

The dust removal and cleaning function can be considered as a basic function of the sweeping robot, and can be realized based on a built-in cleaning module of the sweeping robot; the function of wiping and cleaning can be regarded as an additional function of the sweeping robot, and the additional function can be realized based on a wiping module detachably arranged on the sweeping robot.

Therefore, for a sweeping robot needing to be equipped with a wiping and cleaning function, the cleaning robot may face the requirement of assembling and disassembling the wiping module, however, how to realize the automatic assembling and disassembling of the wiping module becomes a technical problem to be solved in the prior art.

Disclosure of Invention

In the embodiment of the application, a base station for maintaining a sweeping robot is provided, and automatic disassembly and assembly of a wiping module of the sweeping robot can be achieved.

One embodiment provides a base station for a maintenance sweeping robot, the base station comprising:

a base station base;

a maintenance tray including an execution tray body;

a coupling mechanism disposed at the actuator disc;

the lifting mechanism forms an adjustable support for the maintenance tray, and the adjustable support is used for enabling the execution tray body to be horizontally lifted between a first height position and a second height position along a first direction;

the second height position is adjacent to the installation position of the wiping module at the bottom of the sweeping robot, and the first height position is lower than the second height position;

the floor sweeping robot is used for absorbing continuous coupling force of the wiping module generated at the bottom installation position, and the coupling mechanism is used for generating controllable coupling force larger than the continuous coupling force so as to realize the disassembly and assembly of the wiping module on the basis of the cooperative matching of the controllable coupling force and the translation lifting of the execution disc body.

In some examples, optionally, the sweeping robot is provided with a host coupling component, the wiping module comprises a module coupling component, and the continuous coupling force comprises a permanent magnetic attraction force generated between the host coupling component and the module coupling component; wherein the controllable coupling force is generated between the module coupling assembly and the coupling mechanism; wherein the coupling mechanism comprises an electromagnetic assembly, the controllable coupling force comprises an electromagnetic attraction force generated between the electromagnetic assembly and the module coupling assembly, and the electromagnetic attraction force is greater than the permanent magnetic attraction force.

In some examples, optionally, the host coupling assembly comprises a first ferrous member; the module coupling assembly comprises a permanent magnet component and a second iron component; wherein the wiping module comprises a media tray, the permanent magnet member is arranged on one side of the media tray facing the sweeping robot, and the second ferrous member is arranged on the other side of the media tray facing the maintenance tray; wherein the permanent magnetic attraction force is generated between the permanent magnetic member and the first ferrous member, and the electromagnetic attraction force is generated between the electromagnetic assembly and the second ferrous member.

In some examples, optionally, the base station further comprises: the electric driving module is electrically connected with the lifting mechanism and the electromagnetic assembly in an electric control mode so as to cooperatively control the lifting driving of the lifting mechanism and the controllable electrification of the electromagnetic assembly.

In some examples, optionally, the wiping module comprises a media tray drivable in rotation by the sweeping robot, the media tray for housing a wiping media; the host coupling assembly, the module coupling assembly and the coupling mechanism are arranged in an alignment mode with the rotating axis of the medium bracket.

In some examples, optionally, the sweeping robot comprises a drive module for driving the media carriage to rotate; the host coupling component is arranged on an output shaft of the driving module.

In some examples, optionally, the ferrous member is mounted on a side of the media carriage facing away from the sweeping robot.

In some examples, optionally, the base station base comprises a base main housing for parking the sweeping robot, wherein an interior of the base main housing forms a base cavity, and the base main housing has a tray opening exposing the base cavity; the execution disc body is suspended and supported by the lifting mechanism at the tray opening; the maintenance tray further comprises a flexible skirt surrounding the periphery of the execution tray body, wherein the flexible skirt is fixed to an opening edge of the tray opening, and the flexible skirt is telescopically deformed in response to the translational lifting of the execution tray body.

In some examples, optionally, the maintenance tray further comprises a hollow cylinder connected to the execution tray body; the coupling mechanism is fixedly arranged in the hollow cylindrical cavity.

In some examples, optionally, the hollow cylinder extends sunken in a bottom side of the actuator disk.

In some examples, optionally, the base station chassis further comprises a guide cylinder disposed in the chassis lumen; the hollow cylinder column and the guide cylinder column are in sliding insertion connection along the first direction, so that the translation lifting of the execution disc body is restricted in the first direction.

In some examples, optionally, the wiping module comprises a media carriage drivable in rotation by the sweeping robot; the module coupling assembly and the hollow cylinder cavity containing the coupling mechanism are arranged in a contraposition mode with the rotating shaft center of the medium bracket.

In some examples, optionally, the media tray has a positioning groove surrounding the module coupling assembly; the hollow cylinder has an opening flange protruding on the top surface side of the actuator disk body; the opening flange is used for forming a relatively rotatable and slidable plug-in fit with the positioning groove.

Based on the above embodiments, the maintenance tray of the base station has an execution tray body for performing maintenance operations on the parked sweeping robot, wherein the execution tray body can be translationally lifted between a first height position and a second height position based on the adjustable support of the lifting mechanism, and the execution tray body may be arranged with a coupling mechanism. Because coupling mechanism can produce controllable coupling force to, this controllable coupling force is greater than the sustainable coupling force that the robot of sweeping the floor will clean the subassembly and retrain in the bottom, consequently, based on controllable coupling force that coupling mechanism produced and elevating system to the cooperation between the lift adjustment of the execution disk body at coupling mechanism place, can realize cleaning the automatic dismouting of module in the robot bottom of sweeping the floor.

Drawings

The following drawings are only schematic illustrations and explanations of the present application, and do not limit the scope of the present application:

fig. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating an embodiment of the present application, in which a base station for maintaining a sweeping robot automatically mounts and detaches a wiping module;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a deployment structure of a coupling mechanism of a base station in the embodiment shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating a state of the base station in the embodiment of FIG. 1 performing a contact-type detachment operation on the wiping module by using the coupling mechanism;

fig. 4 is a schematic view of a base station of the embodiment shown in fig. 1 in which the wiping module is separated from the sweeping robot;

FIG. 5 is an exploded view of the base station in the embodiment shown in FIG. 1;

fig. 6 is a schematic view of the operation of the lifting mechanism of the base station in the embodiment shown in fig. 1;

fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of the principle structure of the lifting mechanism of the base station for adapting the direction deviation in the embodiment shown in fig. 1;

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of the assembly relationship between the maintenance tray and the base station base of the base station in the embodiment shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of a structure of the base station of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 for limiting the position of the maintenance tray by using the base station base;

FIG. 10 is a schematic view of the deployment structure of the cleaning mechanism in the embodiment shown in FIG. 1.

Description of the reference numerals

10 base station base

100 base inner cavity

11 base bottom plate

111 guide cylinder

112 stop buckle

12 base main case

120 bottom opening

121 parking slope

122 pallet break

123 rotating shaft support

124 drainage mechanism

125 pollution discharging component

126 anti-slip particles

13 protective baffle

20 maintenance tray

21 executive disk body

22 hollow cylinder

220 opening flange

23 vertical clip

24 side convex ear

25 tray chute

26 Flexible skirt

27 skirt flange

30 lifting mechanism

31 power module

32 transmission mechanism

321 guide member

322 moving assembly

322a nut flange

322b moving body

323 transmission chute

33 swing member

330 fulcrum rotating shaft

331 first end portion

332 second end portion

34 mounting bottom box

50 wiper mechanism

51 jet flow component

511 component body

512 jet outlet

52 flow guide member

53 scraping member

531 Boss base

532 raised convex hull

70 sweeping robot

71 host coupling assembly

72 drive module

73 sweeping assembly

80 wiping module

800 wiping media

81 module coupling assembly

82 media tray

83 positioning groove

90 coupling mechanism

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present application more apparent, the present application is further described in detail below by referring to the accompanying drawings and examples.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating an embodiment of the present application, in which a base station for maintaining a sweeping robot automatically mounts and detaches a wiping module. Fig. 2 is a schematic deployment structure diagram of the coupling mechanism of the base station in the embodiment shown in fig. 1. Referring to fig. 1 and 2, in an embodiment of the present application, a base station for maintaining a sweeping robot may include a base station base 10, where the base station base 10 may be used to park the sweeping robot to be maintained.

For example, the base station base 10 may be internally provided with a wireless communication module and a wired or wireless charging mechanism, so that the sweeping robot can be paired with the base station based on the wireless communication module during the period of parking in the base station base 10, and can be charged and maintained by the base station based on the wireless charging mechanism after the pairing is successful. In the embodiments of the present application, the arrangement, the installation structure, and the configuration selection of the charging mechanism at the base station are not focused, and therefore, in the drawings and the following description, the illustration and the description of the charging mechanism will be omitted.

Still referring to fig. 1 and 2, in the embodiment of the present application, in order that the base station for maintaining the sweeping robot may perform other maintenance operations than charging, the base station may further include a maintenance tray 20.

For example, the base station chassis 10 may include a chassis main shell 12, an interior of the chassis main shell 12 may form a chassis interior cavity 100, and the chassis main shell 12 may have a tray cutout 122 exposing the chassis interior cavity 100, and the maintenance tray 20 may be disposed over the tray cutout 122.

The maintenance tray 20 may comprise an execution tray 21, and the execution tray 21 may be used for performing maintenance operations on the sweeping robot 70 parked at the base station base 10, e.g. the execution tray 21 may be deployed with an operating mechanism for performing maintenance operations.

In an embodiment of the present application, the operating mechanism disposed on the execution tray 21 may include a coupling mechanism 90, wherein the coupling mechanism 90 may be used to automatically mount and dismount the wiping module on the sweeping robot.

The automatic assembly and disassembly of the wiping module requires the generation of an operating stroke for switching between the contact position and the non-contact position with the sweeping robot, and therefore, in the embodiment of the present application, the base station for maintaining the sweeping robot may further include an elevating mechanism 30, and the elevating mechanism 30 may form an adjustable support for the maintenance tray 20, and the adjustable support is used for enabling the execution tray 21 to be translationally lifted and lowered between the first height position and the second height position along the first direction D1.

The second height position is adjacent to the bottom mounting position of the sweeping robot of the wiping module 80, and the first height position is lower than the second height position, for example, the first height position may be a position where the execution tray 21 is flush or substantially flush with the tray opening 122.

That is, the first height position may be understood as a non-contact position between the execution disc 21 and the sweeping robot, and the execution disc 21 is adjusted to the first height position by the lifting mechanism 30 before the sweeping robot is parked on the base station base 10 and before the parked sweeping robot leaves the base station base 10, so as to avoid interference collision between the execution disc 21 and the sweeping robot; the second height position can be understood as the contact position of the actuating plate 21 with the sweeping robot, and the actuating plate 21 is allowed to be adjusted to the second height position only when the stationary sweeping robot 70 is in a stopped state. Therefore, it can be understood that the base station for maintaining the sweeping robot in the embodiment of the present application may further include a target detection mechanism for detecting a motion state of the sweeping robot and a position relationship of the sweeping robot with respect to the base station base 10, and a specific implementation of the target detection mechanism is not a concern in the embodiment of the present application, and therefore, a description thereof is not provided herein.

Specifically, the sweeping robot 70 may generate a continuous coupling force for absorbing the wiping module 80 at the bottom installation position for installing the wiping module 80.

For example, the sweeping robot 70 may be equipped with a host coupling assembly 71, the wiping module 80 may include a module coupling assembly 81, and the continuous coupling force generated by the sweeping robot 70 at the bottom installation location may include a permanent magnetic attraction force generated between the host coupling assembly 71 and the module coupling assembly 81.

Correspondingly, the coupling mechanism 90 may be configured to generate a controllable coupling force greater than the continuous coupling force, so as to realize the assembly and disassembly of the wiping module 80 in the sweeping robot 70 based on the cooperative cooperation between the controllable coupling force and the translational lifting of the execution tray 21.

For example, the coupling mechanism 90 may include an electromagnetic assembly, and the controllable coupling force controllably generated by the coupling mechanism 90 may include: the electromagnetic attraction force controllably generated between the electromagnetic element of the coupling mechanism 90 and the module coupling element 81 of the wiping module 80 may be greater than the permanent magnetic attraction force generated between the host coupling element 71 of the sweeping robot 70 and the module coupling element 81 of the wiping module 80. In this case, the electric driving module electrically connected to the lifting mechanism 30 in the base station for the maintenance robot may be further electrically connected to the coupling mechanism 90 to cooperatively control the lifting driving of the lifting mechanism 30 and the controllable energization of the electromagnetic assembly of the coupling mechanism 90, so as to realize the cooperative cooperation of the controllable coupling force and the translational lifting of the execution disc 21.

Based on this embodiment, the maintenance tray 20 of the base station has an execution tray 21 for performing maintenance operations on the parked sweeping robot, wherein the lifting mechanism 30 can form an adjustable support for the execution tray 21 by means of the swinging member 33, so that the execution tray 21 can be translationally lifted between a first height position and a second height position; and, the second height position of the execution tray 21 may be adjacent to the installation position of the wiping module at the bottom of the sweeping robot. Since the coupling mechanism 90 may be disposed on the execution disc 21 of the maintenance tray 20, and the coupling mechanism 90 may generate a controllable coupling force, and the controllable coupling force may be greater than a continuous coupling force of the sweeping robot 70 for restraining the wiping module 80 at the bottom, based on the controllable coupling force generated by the coupling mechanism 90 and the cooperation between the lifting mechanism 30 and the lifting adjustment of the execution disc 21 where the coupling mechanism 90 is located, the automatic assembly and disassembly of the wiping module 80 at the bottom of the sweeping robot 70 may be achieved.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating a state of the base station in the embodiment of fig. 1 when the base station performs a contact-type attaching and detaching operation on the wiping module by using the coupling mechanism. Fig. 4 is a schematic view of a base station of the embodiment shown in fig. 1 in which the wiping module is separated from the sweeping robot. Referring to fig. 3 and 4, the cooperation between the controllable coupling force generated by the coupling mechanism 90 and the lifting adjustment of the tray 21 by the lifting mechanism 30, on which the coupling mechanism 90 is disposed, may embody an automatic disassembling process as shown in the sequence from fig. 3 to 4 and an automatic assembling process as shown in the sequence from fig. 4 to 3.

For the automatic disassembly process:

when the floor sweeping robot 70 equipped with the wiping module 80 is parked on the base station base 10, the execution disc 21 can be driven by the lifting mechanism 30 to be lifted from the first height position to the second height position;

when the actuator disk 21 reaches the second height position, the coupling mechanism 90 contacts the wipe module 80, and the coupling mechanism 90 may generate a controllable coupling force;

after the coupling mechanism 90 starts to generate the controllable coupling force, the execution disc body 21 can be driven by the lifting mechanism 30 to descend from the second height position to the first height position, and the coupling mechanism 90 can continuously generate the controllable coupling force in the descending process along with the execution disc body 21, so that the wiping module 80 overcomes the continuous coupling force generated by the sweeping robot 70 and descends along with the execution disc body 21, and the wiping module 80 can be automatically detached from the sweeping robot 70;

after that, after the cleaning robot 70 leaves the base station base 10 after the wiping module 80 is detached, the coupling mechanism 90 may stop generating the controllable coupling force, so that the detached wiping module 80 can be easily taken from the execution disc 21.

For the automatic installation process:

the wiping module 80 to be mounted can be placed on the actuating disc 21 and the coupling mechanism 90 can begin to produce a controllable coupling force;

when the sweeping robot 7 needing to install the wiping module 80 is parked on the base station base 10, the execution disc 21 can be lifted from the first height position to the second height position under the driving of the lifting mechanism 30, and the coupling mechanism 90 does not generate controllable coupling force in the lifting process along with the execution disc 21;

when the execution disc body 21 reaches the second height position, the wiping module 80 reaches the bottom mounting position of the sweeping robot 70, and the coupling mechanism 90 can stop generating the controllable coupling force, so that the wiping module 80 can be detachably mounted at the bottom mounting position of the sweeping robot 70 under the constraint of the continuous coupling force generated by the sweeping robot 70, and the automatic mounting of the wiping module 80 on the sweeping robot 70 is realized;

after the coupling mechanism 90 stops generating the controllable coupling force, the actuating disc 21 can be driven by the lifting mechanism 30 to descend from the second height position to the first height position, and the coupling mechanism 90 still keeps the state of stopping generating the controllable coupling force in the descending process of the actuating disc 21;

thereafter, the sweeping robot 70 with the wiping module 80 mounted thereon can leave the base station base 10.

In addition, the wiping module 80 may include a medium bracket 82 driven by the sweeping robot 70 to rotate, the medium bracket 82 is used for installing a wiping medium 800 such as a wiping cloth, the wiping medium may be installed on a side of the medium bracket 82 facing away from the sweeping robot 70 (i.e., a side of the medium bracket 82 facing the maintenance tray 20), and the host coupling assembly 71, the module coupling assembly 81, and the coupling mechanism 90 may be aligned with a rotation axis of the medium bracket 82.

For example, the host coupling assembly 71 may include a first ferrous member; the module coupling assembly 81 may include a permanent magnet member 81a and a second ferrous member 81b, wherein the permanent magnet member 81a may be disposed at one side of the media tray 82 facing the sweeping robot 70, and the second ferrous member 81b is disposed at the other side of the media tray 82 facing the maintenance tray 20. Thus, the permanent magnetic attraction force between the main machine coupling assembly 70 and the module coupling assembly 80 can be generated between the permanent magnetic member 81a of the module coupling assembly 81 and the first ferrous member of the main machine coupling assembly 71; also, an electromagnetic attraction force between the coupling member 90 and the module coupling assembly 81 may be generated between the electromagnetic assembly of the coupling member 90 and the second iron member 81b of the module coupling assembly 81.

Based on the above configuration, if the first iron member of the main unit coupling unit 71, the permanent magnet member 81a and the second iron member 81b of the module coupling unit 81, and the electromagnetic member of the coupling member 90 are disposed in alignment with the rotation axis of the medium tray 82, a permanent magnetic attraction force serving as a continuous coupling force and an electromagnetic attraction force serving as a controllable coupling force can be generated along the rotation axis of the medium tray 82, and the rotation of the medium tray 82 is not affected by either the permanent magnetic attraction force or the electromagnetic attraction force.

In order to more reasonably align the first ferrous member of the main machine coupling assembly 71, the permanent magnet member 81a and the second ferrous member 81b of the module coupling assembly 81, and the electromagnetic assembly of the coupling member 90 with the rotation axis of the medium bracket 82:

the sweeping robot 70 may include a driving module 72 disposed at a bottom mounting position for driving the medium carrier 82 to rotate, and the host coupling assembly 71 (e.g., a first iron member) may be disposed at an output shaft (e.g., an end surface of the output shaft) of the driving module 72;

the medium bracket 82 may have a rotating shaft cylinder 85 at a side facing the sweeping robot 70, the rotating shaft cylinder 85 is configured to be inserted into the insertion shaft cavity 75 at the bottom of the sweeping robot 70 to be coaxially connected with the output shaft of the driving module 72 in the insertion shaft cavity 75, and the permanent magnet member 81a of the module coupling assembly 81 may be disposed inside the rotating shaft cylinder 85 (e.g., at the bottom of the rotating shaft cylinder 85);

the second ferrous member 81b of the module coupling assembly 81 can be installed on the other side of the media bracket 82 facing away from the cleaning robot 70 (i.e. the other side of the media bracket 82 facing the maintenance tray 20) to reduce the interference of the permanent magnetic attraction force generated between the permanent magnetic member 81a of the module coupling assembly 81 and the first ferrous member of the host coupling assembly 71 as much as possible.

To better understand the translational lifting function provided by the lifting mechanism 30 to perform the plate 21, the structure of the base station is described in further detail below.

Fig. 5 is an exploded view of the base station in the embodiment shown in fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of the operation principle of the lifting mechanism of the base station in the embodiment shown in fig. 1. Referring to fig. 5 and 6, in the embodiment of the present application, the lifting mechanism 30 may include a power module 31, a transmission mechanism 32, and a swinging member 33.

The power module 31 may include a power element such as a motor, and the power module 31 is used to generate a driving force.

The transmission mechanism 32 is used for applying the driving force generated by the power module 31 to the swinging member 33 so as to drive the translational lifting of the execution disc body 21 through the swinging of the swinging member 33 in response to the driving force.

For example, the power module 31 and the transmission mechanism 32 may be located outside the base cavity 100 of the base station base 10, and the swinging member 33 may protrude into the base cavity 100 of the base station base 10 and form the adjustable support for the actuator disk 21 at the tray cutout 122.

It can be seen that the maintenance tray 20 of the base station has an execution tray 21 for performing maintenance operations on the parked sweeping robot, wherein the lifting mechanism 30 can form an adjustable support for the execution tray 21 by means of the oscillation of the oscillating member 33, so that the execution tray 21 can be translationally lifted between a first height position and a second height position; moreover, the second height position of the execution disc 21 may be adjacent to the installation position of the wiping module at the bottom of the sweeping robot, so that, based on the lifting adjustment of the lifting mechanism 30 on the execution disc 21, the contact maintenance operation may be performed on the wiping module at the bottom of the sweeping robot by any operating mechanism disposed on the execution disc 21.

In the embodiment of the present application, the switching direction of the performance tray 21 of the maintenance tray 20 between the first height position and the second height position is in the first direction D1, and the transmission mechanism 32 may apply the driving force generated by the power module 31 to the swing member 33 in the second direction different from the first direction D1, that is, there may be a directional deviation between the ascending and descending direction of the performance tray 21 (i.e., the first direction D1) and the transmission direction of the transmission mechanism 32 (i.e., the second direction D2), which may be expressed as a preset angular deviation existing between the first direction D1 and the second direction D2.

For example, the base main housing 12 of the base station base 10 may have a horizontally disposed bottom surface that may house the base floor 11 below the base cavity 100; also, the base main housing 12 of the base station base 10 may also have a parking ramp 121 inclined with respect to the horizontal plane (i.e. the base floor 11 or the bottom surface of the base station base 10), which parking ramp 121 may be used for parking the sweeping robot. The parking slope 121 is tilted upward on a side close to the maintenance tray 20 (i.e., the tray notch 22), and the tilting height is determined according to a height of a space that the swing member 33 needs to occupy in the bottom inner cavity 100 at a portion close to the second end 322. In addition, since the parking ramp 121 is inclined, the surface of the inclined parking ramp 121 may be lined with anti-slip particles 126.

In this case, the first direction D1 in which the switching of the raising and lowering of the tray body 21 between the first height position and the second height position is performed may be an inclined direction perpendicular to the parking slope 121; also, the second direction D2 in which the transmission mechanism 32 applies the driving force to the swing member 33 may be a vertical direction perpendicular to a horizontal plane (i.e., the bottom surface of the base chassis 11 or the base station base 10).

Fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of the elevator mechanism of the base station for adapting the direction deviation in the embodiment shown in fig. 1. Referring to fig. 7, in order to adapt to the above-mentioned directional deviation, in the embodiment of the present application, the swing member 33 may adopt a lever type structure with two ends providing a sliding fit margin, specifically, the swing member 33 may have a fulcrum rotating shaft 330, and a first end 331 and a second end 332 at two opposite sides of the fulcrum rotating shaft 330, wherein:

the fulcrum shaft 330 of the swing member 33 is rotationally engaged with the shaft support 123 of the base station base 10 to restrict the swing of the swing member 33 in response to the driving force to take the fulcrum shaft 330 as a fixed fulcrum;

the driving force generated by the power module 31 can be applied to the first end 331 of the swinging member 33 by the transmission mechanism 32 in the second direction D2;

the first end 331 of the swinging member 33 forms a first sliding fit with the transmission mechanism 32, for example, the first end 331 of the swinging member 33 may form a first sliding fit with the transmission mechanism 32 outside the base cavity 100 of the base station base 10;

the second end 332 of the oscillating member 33 may form a second slip fit with the actuation tray 21 of the maintenance tray 20, e.g., the second end 322 of the oscillating member 33 may protrude into the base cavity 100 of the base station base 10, and the second end 332 of the oscillating member 33 may form a second slip fit with the actuation tray 21 at the tray slot 122;

also, the first slip fit and the second slip fit serve to eliminate fitting interference between the swing member 33 and the transmission mechanism 32 and the actuator disc 21 due to an angular deviation between the first direction D1 and the second direction D2.

Specifically, the transmission mechanism 32 of the lifting mechanism 30 may include a guide member 321 disposed along the second direction D2, and a moving component 322 movably mounted on the guide member 321, wherein the moving component 322 may move along the guide member 321 in the second direction D2 in response to the driving force generated by the power component 31 to apply the driving force to the first end 331 of the swing member 33 along the second direction D2.

Also, the moving assembly 322 may have a transmission runner 323, and the first end 331 of the swinging member 33 may form the aforementioned first sliding engagement with the transmission runner 323, for example, the first end 331 may have a laterally protruding first guide post slidably inserted in the transmission runner 323, and may form the first sliding engagement between the first end 331 of the swinging member 33 and the transmission runner 323.

Wherein the extension direction of the transmission runner 323 of the moving assembly 322 is arranged to enable a first slip fit between the first end 331 and the transmission runner 323: the input force acting on the swing member 33 is resolved from the driving force generated by the power module 31, and the urging direction of the input force at the first end 331 of the swing member 33 is a tangential direction of a fixed fulcrum formed about the fulcrum rotation shaft 330.

For example, the power module 31 may include a stepping motor, the guide member 321 may include a lead screw coaxially connected to an output shaft of the stepping motor of the power module 31, and the moving assembly 322 may include a nut flange 322a, and a moving body 322b, wherein the nut flange 322a may be engaged with the lead screw of the guide member 321, the nut flange 322a may be fixedly connected to the moving body 322b, and the transmission slide 323 may be formed at the moving body 322 b.

In this case, the first end 331 of the swinging member 33 forms not only a first sliding fit with the slidable insertion of its first guide post in the transmission runner 323, but also the first end 331 of the swinging member 33 forms a rotation-stop abutment against the moving body 332b, which serves to form a rotation-stop constraint that prevents the moving body 332b from rotating in the direction of the winding screw. In the illustration of this embodiment, the first end 331 of the swing member 33 is a double-arm structure that sandwiches the moving body 332b on opposite sides of the moving body 332 b.

Accordingly, the nut flange 332a fixedly connected with the moving body 332b is also subject to the above-mentioned rotation stop constraint, i.e., the moving body 322b forming the first sliding fit with the swing member 33 (i.e., the first end 331) can form the rotation stop constraint on the nut flange 322 a.

Therefore, during the rotation period of the lead screw of the guiding member 321 in response to the driving force generated by the stepping motor of the power module 31, the nut flange 322a engaged with the lead screw is restricted from rotation, and therefore can be linearly lifted in the second direction D2 in response to the engagement transmission with the rotating lead screw, and thereby the moving body 322b fixedly connected therewith is driven to be linearly lifted in the second direction D2, so as to apply the driving force generated by the power module 31 to the first end 331 of the swinging member 33 forming the first slip fit with the transmission chute in the second direction D2. In addition, the switching of the lifting direction can be realized by switching the forward and reverse rotation of the output shaft of the stepping motor of the power module 31.

The maintenance tray 20 may further include a tray chute 25 in the executive tray 21, and the second end 332 of the oscillating member 33 may form the second slip fit with the tray chute 25. For example, the second end 332 of the swinging member 33 may have a laterally projecting second guide post slidably inserted in the tray chute 25 to form a second slip fit between the second end 332 of the swinging member 33 and the tray chute 25.

Wherein the extension direction of the tray chute 25 may be arranged to enable a second slip fit between the second end 332 of the swing member 33 and the tray chute 25: the output force effective to the actuator tray body 21 is resolved from the aforementioned input force applied to the first end portion 331, and the urging direction of the output force to the actuator tray body 21 through the tray chute 25 is the first direction D1.

In addition, in order to avoid the 0 ° dead angle of the swing member 33 parallel to the transmission chute 323 at the first end 331 and the 0 ° dead angle parallel to the tray chute 25 at the second end 332, in the embodiment of the present application, the swing member 33 may have an arch shape with a dome downward, and the fulcrum rotating shaft 330 for forming a fixed fulcrum may be located at the dome of the arch shape.

While the lifting mechanism 30 is used for driving the execution disc 21 of the maintenance tray 20 to lift, the embodiment of the application may assist in guiding and limiting the maintenance tray 20, so as to further optimize the lifting stability and reliability of the execution disc 21 of the maintenance tray 20.

In addition, the lifting mechanism 30 may further include a position detecting assembly, which may be disposed at an extreme position where the moving assembly 322 moves along the guide member 321, so that when the moving assembly 322 moves along the guide member 321 to a preset extreme position, a driving signal for causing the motor of the power module 31 to stall may be generated. The extreme position of the moving assembly 322 moving along the guide member 321 may be determined according to the first height position and the second height position.

Fig. 8 is a schematic view of the assembly relationship between the maintenance tray and the base station base of the base station in the embodiment shown in fig. 1. Fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of a structure of the base station in the embodiment shown in fig. 1 for limiting the maintenance tray by using the base station base. Referring to fig. 8 and 9, for the case where the base station chassis 10 forms the chassis inner cavity 100 inside the chassis main case 12, the chassis main case 12 has the tray cutout 122 exposing the chassis inner cavity 100, and the maintenance tray 20 is arranged at the tray cutout 122:

the base station chassis 10 may further include a guide cylinder 111 disposed in the chassis inner cavity 100, for example, the guide cylinder 111 may be formed on the chassis base plate 11, and the chassis base plate 11 may be covered and mounted on the bottom opening 120 of the chassis main shell 12 below the chassis inner cavity 100, so that the guide cylinder 111 protrudes toward the tray opening 122 along the first direction D1;

accordingly, the maintenance tray 20 may further include a hollow cylinder 22 connected to the actuator tray 21, and the hollow cylinder 22 may be extended in a sinking manner at a side of the actuator tray 21 facing the base cavity 100, so that the hollow cylinder 22 can be slidably inserted into the guide cylinder 111 along the first direction D1 to restrain the translational lifting of the actuator tray 21 for switching between the first height position and the second height position in the first direction D.

The performance tray 21 of the maintenance tray 20 may be flush or substantially flush with the tray cutout 122 in a first height position, and a gap may be formed between the performance tray 21 and the tray cutout 122 when the performance tray 21 is in a second height position that is higher than the first height position.

Alternatively, the coupling mechanism 90 may be fixedly mounted within the hollow barrel cavity 22 of the service tray 20. Since the hollow cylinder 22 can sink and extend toward the bottom side of the base cavity 100 of the actuator disc 21 for sliding engagement with the guiding cylinder 111, the coupling mechanism 90 is installed in the hollow cylinder 22, and the interference contact between the coupling mechanism 90 and the wiping module 80 can be avoided.

If the wiping module 80 includes a medium bracket 82 that can be driven by the sweeping robot 70 to rotate, and the host coupling assembly 71, the module coupling assembly 81, and the coupling mechanism 90 can all be aligned with the rotation axis of the medium bracket 82, the parking position of the sweeping robot 90 on the base station base 10 can be located as follows: the output shaft of the driving module 72 of the sweeping robot 70 is coaxially aligned with the hollow cylindrical column 22 along the first direction D1.

In this case, the medium tray 82 may have a positioning groove 83, the positioning groove 93 may be disposed to surround the rotation axis, for example, the positioning groove 93 may be disposed to surround the module coupling assembly 81 (e.g., the second iron member 81b) at the rotation axis, and accordingly, the hollow cylinder 22 may have an opening flange 220 protruding on the top surface side of the actuator disk 21 facing away from the base inner cavity 100, the opening flange 220 being for forming a relatively rotatably slidable plug-in fit with the positioning groove 83, so that the rotation axis of the medium tray 82 can be positioned to be coaxially aligned with the output shaft of the drive module 72 of the sweeping robot 70.

To block the gap between the actuation tray 21 and the tray cutout 122 when in the second height position, in an embodiment of the present application, the maintenance tray 20 may further include a flexible skirt 26 that surrounds the outer periphery of the actuation tray 21.

Wherein the flexible skirt 26 can be fixed on the opening edge of the tray opening 122, for example, the upper edge of the flexible skirt 26 is connected with the actuating disc 21, the lower edge of the flexible skirt 26 can form a skirt flange 27, and the skirt flange 27 can be fixed on the opening edge of the tray opening 122 by riveting or screwing. Preferably, the obstruction of the tray cutout 122 by the flexible skirt 26 may form a water-tight seal against the tray cutout 122.

Also, the flexible skirt 26 may be telescopically deformed in response to translational movement of the implement platter 21 between the first height position and the second height position, e.g., the flexible skirt 26 may be pleated when the implement platter 21 is in the first height position and the flexible skirt 26 may be in tension when the implement platter 21 is in the second height position.

In the case that the hollow cylinder column 22 is slidably inserted into the guide cylinder column 111 along the first direction D1 to form a guide, and the flexible skirt 26 is used to cover the tray opening 122, the embodiment of the present application may further provide a limit constraint between the base station base 10 and the execution tray body 21 of the maintenance tray 20.

Wherein the limit constraint is used for constraining the upward limit position of the actuator disc 21 to avoid the over-position lifting of the actuator disc 21 when the position detection component of the lifting mechanism 30 fails; and the lowering limit position of the actuator tray 21 may be set to a physical limit position of the actuator 32 of the elevating mechanism 30 in a direction of driving the actuator tray 21 to be lowered, or the lowering limit position of the actuator tray 21 may be restricted by dimensional interference between the actuator tray 21 and the tray slits 122.

An alternative limiting constraint for preventing over-ride up is as follows:

the maintenance tray 20 may also include a vertical catch 23 formed in the performance tray 21, the vertical catch 23 may extend vertically from the performance tray 21 towards the bottom cavity 100;

the base station base 10 may further include a stop catch 112 disposed in the base cavity 100, the stop catch 122 may be formed on the base floor 11, and attached through the base floor 11 to cover the bottom opening 120 of the base main housing 12, and protrude in the base cavity 100 toward the tray cutout 122;

thus, when the actuator disc 21 of the maintenance tray 20 is located at the second height position, the hanging clip 23 and the stop clip 112 are in interference fit to prevent the actuator disc 21 from over-lifting beyond the second height position, and further, the hollow cylinder 22 can be prevented from being separated from the guide cylinder 111 due to the over-lifting of the actuator disc 21, and the flexible skirt 26 can be prevented from being pulled apart or separated from the opening edge of the tray gap 122 due to the over-lifting of the actuator disc.

Another alternative limiting constraint for preventing over-position lifting is as follows:

the maintenance tray 20 may further comprise side lugs 24 provided on the performance tray 21, which side lugs 24 may protrude laterally from the lower edge of the flexible skirt (26);

thus, when the actuator disc 21 of the maintenance tray 20 is located at the second height position, the side lugs 24 are in interference fit with the opening edge of the tray slit 122 to prevent the actuator disc 21 from being raised excessively beyond the second height position, and thus, the hollow cylinder 22 is prevented from being separated from the guide cylinder 111 due to the excessive rise of the actuator disc 21, and the flexible skirt 26 is prevented from being pulled apart or separated from the opening edge of the tray slit 122 due to the excessive rise of the actuator disc.

In the embodiment of the present application, the two limit constraint manners are combined and used as an example, but it is understood that the two limit constraint manners may be alternatively used as needed.

In some examples, the maintenance tray 20 includes an actuator tray 21, a hollow cylinder 22, a vertical clip 23, a tray chute 25, a flexible skirt 26, and a skirt flange 27 that may be integrally formed by an injection molding process, while the side tabs 24 may be separate rigid members. In this case, the actuator disc 21, the hollow cylinder 22, the vertical clip 23, the tray chute 25, the flexible skirt 26, and the skirt flange 27 may all have the flexibility characteristic of the injection molded material, wherein the flexibility of the flexible skirt 26 means that the flexible skirt 26 has the flexibility characteristic of being more easily deformed than other integrally molded parts of the maintenance tray 20, and is not intended to limit that other integrally molded parts of the maintenance tray 20 must be rigid.

In the embodiment of the present application, the operating mechanism disposed on the execution tray 21 may further include a cleaning mechanism 50 in addition to the coupling mechanism 90, wherein the cleaning mechanism 50 may be used to clean the wiping module mounted on the sweeping robot.

FIG. 10 is a schematic view of the deployment structure of the cleaning mechanism in the embodiment shown in FIG. 1. Referring to fig. 10, in this embodiment, the base station for maintaining the sweeping robot may further include a cleaning mechanism 50 serving as an operating mechanism, and the cleaning mechanism 50 may be disposed on the execution tray 21 of the maintenance tray 220 for performing contact cleaning on the wiping module mounted on the sweeping robot. For example, the cleaning mechanism 50 may be located outside a contact area where the elevator mechanism 30 forms an adjustable support for the actuator disk 21 at the position where the actuator disk 21 is disposed, to provide a floating support for the cleaning mechanism 50 by using an elastic deformation margin of the actuator disk 21 itself.

Specifically, the washing mechanism 50 may include a jet member 51 and a guide member 52.

The jet member 51 is used for jetting the fluid, wherein, when the sweeping robot equipped with the wiping module is parked at the base station base 10, the execution disc body 21 at the second height position can contact the wiping module (for example, contact the wiping medium such as a rag and the like equipped with the wiping module), and the fluid jetted by the jet member 51 is jetted from the jet member 51 at an angle avoiding the wiping module (i.e., the wiping medium), that is, the jet member 51 is used for jetting the fluid at an angle avoiding the wiping module when the execution disc body 21 is at the second height position.

For example, the jet member 51 may include a member main body 511 protruding from the top surface of the actuator disk body 21, and a jet outlet 512 opened in a side wall of the member main body 511, so that the fluid jetted laterally from the jet outlet 512 may escape the wiping module, and preferably, the jet outlet 512 may be opened in a bottom portion of the member main body 511 near the side wall of the actuator disk body 21. In this case, the member body 511 may be a hollow rib integrally formed in the actuator disk 21 so that a flow supply line from below the actuator disk can be introduced into the hollow rib and ejected from the ejection outlet 512 opened in the rib wall of the hollow rib.

The flow guide member 52 guides the fluid ejected from the ejection member 51 at an angle avoiding the wiping module to spread toward the wiping module (wiping medium).

For example, the flow guide member 52 may be spaced apart from the jet member 51, wherein the space between the flow guide member 52 and the jet member 51 may allow the fluid to impact the flow guide member 52 after being ejected from the jet member 51, for example, the fluid may impact the flow guide member 52 with a predetermined intensity after being ejected from the jet member 51, and the flow guide member 52 may eject and spread the impacted fluid to a surface area of the wiping module exposed at the space, for example, the fluid may be uniformly ejected to the surface area of the wiping module exposed at the space after impacting the flow guide member 52. In this case, the flow guide member 52 may be a plate-shaped rib integrally formed on the actuator disc 21, and the plate-shaped rib may have an inclined rib wall facing the jet member 51 so as to uniformly diffuse the impinging fluid toward the wiping module by the inclined rib wall.

Therefore, the cleaning mechanism 50 arranged on the execution disc body 21 can perform contact type automatic cleaning without influencing fluid jet on the wiping module arranged on the sweeping robot when the execution disc body 21 contacts the wiping module, and the cleaning mechanism adopts a flow supply mode that fluid jetted by the jet flow component 51 is uniformly guided to the wiping module through the flow guide component 52, so that the uniformity of cleaning the wiping module is improved.

If the wiping module 80 includes the medium tray 82 that can be driven to rotate by the cleaning robot 70, the member main body 511 of the jet member 51 and the flow guide member 52 may be extended radially from the position where the execution tray 21 is aligned with the rotation axis of the medium tray 82, and the side wall of the member main body 511 may be arranged with a plurality of ejection outlets 512 in the direction of the extension of the radiation.

If the wipe module 80 includes a media carrier 82 that is rotatably driven by the sweeping robot 70, the cleaning mechanism 50 may further include a wiper member 53, for example, the wiper member 53 may include a boss base 531 and a plurality of raised domes 532 distributed over the top surface of the boss base 531. When the actuator tray 21 is in the second height position, the wiper member 53 may interfere with friction with the wiping medium 800 mounted on the media tray 82 in response to rotation of the media tray 82. The scraping member 53 may also be extended radially from a position of alignment of the actuator tray body 21 with the rotation axis of the medium tray 82, and the scraping member 53 may have a phase interval with the jet member 51 and the flow guide member 52 in the rotation direction of the medium tray 82.

In addition, the base station chassis 10 may also have a drainage mechanism 124 and a drainage member 125, wherein the drainage mechanism 124 forms a drainage path for a flow of dirt overflowing the wiping module to flow from the maintenance tray 20 to the drainage member 125. For example, the drainage member 125 may be detachably mounted to the main base housing 12, and the drainage mechanism 124 may form a diversion slope on the outer periphery of the maintenance tray 20, which may form a guiding tendency for the sewage overflowing from the wiping module to naturally flow toward the drainage member 125.

In combination with the coupling mechanism 90 and the cleaning mechanism 50, the base station for maintaining the sweeping robot in the embodiment of the present application can support the sweeping robot to flexibly switch between different working modes, for example, a single sweeping mode, a single dragging mode, and a combined mode.

The single sweep mode refers to: the cleaning robot 70 performs a dust removal task of cleaning floating dust on the floor surface by using the built-in cleaning assembly 73 without installing the cleaning module 80 for floor cleaning.

The single drag mode refers to: the sweeping robot 70 performs a floor-sweeping task of wiping the floor surface with the installed wiping module 80, and the operation of the cleaning assembly 73 is stopped during this period.

The combination mode is as follows: the sweeping robot 70 performs a floor-sweeping task of wiping the floor surface with the installed wiping module 80, and the sweeping assembly 73 is continuously operated during this time.

Wherein, the switching between any kind of mode in single mode of sweeping and single mode and the compound mode of dragging can utilize coupling mechanism 90 to realize wiping the automatic dismouting of module 80.

Also, for the single drag mode and the combination mode: the cleaning robot 70 can wet the wiping medium 800 of the wiping module 80 by means of the cleaning mechanism 50 before performing the mopping task; after the floor sweeping robot 70 completes the floor mopping task, the cleaning mechanism 50 may be used to clean the wiping medium 800 of the wiping module 80.

In addition, if the number of times of cleaning the wiping medium 800 of the wiping module 80 after the completion of multiple mopping tasks reaches a preset threshold, the wiping module 80 with the clean wiping medium 800 can be replaced by the sweeping robot 70 by self-charging and self-dismounting of the coupling mechanism 90.

The above description is only exemplary of the present application and should not be taken as limiting the present application, as any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present application should be included in the scope of protection of the present application.

Claims (10)

1. A base station for maintaining a sweeping robot, the base station comprising:

a base station base (10);

a maintenance tray (20), the maintenance tray (20) including an execution tray body (21);

a coupling mechanism (90), the coupling mechanism (90) being disposed at the actuator disc (21);

a lifting mechanism (30), the lifting mechanism (30) forming an adjustable support for the maintenance tray (20) and the adjustable support being used for translationally lifting the execution tray body (21) in a first direction between a first height position and a second height position;

wherein the second height position is adjacent to a bottom mounting position of the wiping module (80) on the sweeping robot (70), and the first height position is lower than the second height position;

the sweeping robot (70) generates continuous coupling force for adsorbing the wiping module (80) at the bottom installation position, and the coupling mechanism (90) is used for generating controllable coupling force larger than the continuous coupling force so as to allow the wiping module (80) to be disassembled and assembled at the sweeping robot (70) based on the cooperative matching of the controllable coupling force and the translation lifting of the execution disc body (21).

2. The base station of claim 1,

the sweeping robot (70) is provided with a host coupling component (71), the wiping module (80) comprises a module coupling component (81), and the continuous coupling force comprises a permanent magnetic adsorption force generated between the host coupling component (71) and the module coupling component (81);

the coupling mechanism (90) comprises an electromagnetic assembly, the controllable coupling force comprises an electromagnetic attraction force generated between the electromagnetic assembly and the module coupling assembly (81), and the electromagnetic attraction force is greater than the permanent magnetic attraction force.

3. The base station of claim 2,

the host coupling assembly (71) comprises a first ferrous member;

the module coupling assembly (81) comprises a permanent magnet member (81a) and a second ferrous member (81 b);

wherein the wiping module (80) comprises a media carrier (82), the permanent magnet member (81a) being arranged on a side of the media carrier (82) facing the sweeping robot (70), and the second ferrous member (81b) being arranged on the other side of the media carrier (82) facing the maintenance tray (20);

wherein the permanent magnetic attraction force is generated between the permanent magnetic member (81a) and the first ferrous member, and the electromagnetic attraction force is generated between the electromagnetic assembly and the second ferrous member (81 b).

4. The base station of claim 2, wherein the base station further comprises:

the electric driving module is electrically connected with the lifting mechanism (30) and the electromagnetic assembly in an electric control mode so as to cooperatively control the lifting driving of the lifting mechanism (30) and the controllable electrification of the electromagnetic assembly.

5. The base station of claim 2,

the wiping module (80) comprises a medium bracket (82) which can be driven by the sweeping robot (70) to rotate, and the medium bracket (82) is used for accommodating a wiping medium (800);

the host coupling assembly (71), the module coupling assembly (81) and the coupling mechanism (90) are arranged in alignment with the rotation axis of the medium bracket (82).

6. The base station of claim 1,

the maintenance tray (20) further comprises a hollow cylinder (22) connected with the execution tray body (21);

the coupling mechanism (90) is fixedly arranged in the hollow cylinder cavity (22).

7. The base station of claim 6,

the hollow cylinder (22) sinks and extends on the bottom surface side of the execution disc body (21).

8. The base station of claim 7,

the base station base (10) comprises a base main shell (12) for parking the sweeping robot (70), wherein a base inner cavity (100) is formed inside the base main shell (12), and the base main shell (12) is provided with a tray notch (122) exposing the base inner cavity (100);

the execution disc body (21) is suspended and supported by the lifting mechanism (30) at the tray notch (122);

the base station chassis (10) further comprises a guide cylinder (111) arranged in the chassis interior (100);

the hollow cylinder column (22) is in sliding insertion connection with the guide cylinder column (111) along the first direction so as to restrain the translational lifting of the execution disc body (21) in the first direction.

9. The base station of claim 6,

the wiping module (80) comprises a medium bracket (82) which can be driven by the sweeping robot (70) to rotate;

the module coupling assembly (81) and the hollow cylinder cavity (22) accommodating the coupling mechanism (90) are arranged in alignment with the rotation axis of the medium bracket (82).

10. The base station of claim 9,

the media tray (82) has a positioning groove (83) surrounding the module coupling assembly (81);

the hollow cylinder (22) has an opening flange (220) protruding on the top surface side of the execution disk body (21);

wherein, the opening flange (220) is used for forming a relatively rotatable and slidable plug-in fit with the positioning groove (83).

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