CN211324791U

CN211324791U - Dust box, mobile robot comprising dust box and cleaning system

Info

Publication number: CN211324791U
Application number: CN201921691567.2U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李孟钦; 王利鹏; 郑卓斌; 王立磊; 其他发明人请求不公开姓名
Original assignee: Guangzhou Keyu Robot Co Ltd
Current assignee: Guangzhou Keyu Robot Co Ltd; Guangzhou Coayu Robot Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-10-10
Filing date: 2019-10-10
Publication date: 2020-08-25
Anticipated expiration: 2029-10-10

Abstract

The utility model discloses a dust box, including the depressed part, inhale the export, inhale export lid, movable part, first elastomeric element, casing, inhale the export and be used for the discharge with the rubbish in the dust box, inhale export lid movably and install on inhaling the export, first elastomeric element connects and inhales the export lid for will inhale the export lid and keep at closed condition, the partly of movable part is located the depressed part, and some is located inhales export lid department in addition. The utility model has the advantages that: the utility model provides a dirt box can be used for having the mobile robot of automatic rubbish function of falling, and this kind of structure is difficult to appear cleaning the in-process and is triggered by other objects and make the suction outlet lid open and cause the unrestrained condition of rubbish to the trigger of pure mechanical type can not increase extra electric consumption, improves user experience.

Description

Dust box, mobile robot comprising dust box and cleaning system

Technical Field

The utility model belongs to the mobile robot field especially relates to cleaning machines people.

Background

Because of the continuous improvement of the requirements of people on life convenience, the intelligent robot is more and more popular with users in the world, and various types and functional intelligent robots such as a floor sweeping robot, a mowing robot and a water and medicine spraying robot are in endless.

People can not meet the requirement that the sweeping robot only has the function of sweeping and mopping the floor, so the sweeping robot capable of automatically recycling the garbage appears in the market, but the cleaning robot with the station unit for collecting the dust accumulated in the autonomous mobile dust collection unit has the following defects:

1) the standing unit sucks and collects accumulated dust from a suction port of the autonomous mobile dust suction unit: dust accumulated in the dust box of the main machine is sucked back into the dust box by the charging seat through the suction outlet at the position of the rolling brush for collection, and the dust exhaust effect is poor because the suction outlet has a structure which is easy to suck and is not easy to suck; and the hair is easy to be wound by the rolling brush, and the sucking is not smooth.

2) In the standing unit, an accumulated dust suction port is additionally arranged on the dust collection box of the autonomous mobile dust collection unit, and a suction port cover for controlling the opening and closing of the suction port is arranged on the standing unit.

3) The standing unit is provided with an accumulated dust suction outlet on the dust collecting box of the autonomous mobile dust suction unit, and is provided with a suction outlet cover for controlling the opening and the closing of the suction outlet, and the opening and the closing of the suction outlet cover are controlled by a mechanical structure. This structure requires a pole to be provided on the base station for hooking the suction port cover on the way of the mobile robot returning to the base station. According to the technical scheme, the risk that the suction port cover is hooked and opened by an object in the normal walking and cleaning work of the mobile robot is caused, and the possibility that accumulated dust is accidentally scattered is caused.

The utility model has the following contents:

for solving the technical problem in the background art, the utility model provides a technical scheme as follows:

the utility model provides a dust box, includes depressed part, suction outlet cover, movable part, first elastomeric element, casing, and the suction outlet is used for the discharge of the rubbish in the dust box, and suction outlet cover movably installs on the suction outlet, and first elastomeric element connects suction outlet and suction outlet cover for will suck outlet cover and keep in the closed condition, and a part of movable part is located the depressed part, and a part is located suction outlet cover department.

Further, in order to realize that the movable portion can push the suction port cover away when an object enters the recess portion, in an optimized scheme of the embodiment, the movable portion comprises: trigger part, follow portion and fulcrum, wherein the fulcrum is rotatable to be fixed on the casing, and the trigger part sets up in the depressed part, and follow portion is used for promoting the mouth lid of inhaling.

Further, in order to realize that the movable portion can push the suction port cover away when an object enters the recess portion, in an optimized scheme of the embodiment, the movable portion comprises: trigger part, following portion, connecting rod have the column hole on the casing, and the connecting rod passes the column hole, and trigger part sets up in the depressed part, and following portion is used for promoting the aspiration port lid.

Further, in order to avoid the connecting rod from shaking in the cylindrical hole, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a second elastic member is mounted on the connecting rod.

Further, in order to rotatably install the suction port cover on the suction port, in an optimized scheme of this embodiment, the dust box further comprises a rotating shaft, a cover shaft hole is arranged at one end of the suction port cover, a mounting hole is arranged on the suction port, the rotating shaft penetrates through the cover shaft hole and the mounting hole, wherein the rotating shaft is in interference fit with any one of the cover shaft hole and the mounting hole, and the other one is in clearance fit.

Further, in order to maintain the suction port cover in the closed state when not subjected to an external force, in a preferable aspect of the present embodiment, the first elastic member is a torsion spring.

The utility model also provides a mobile robot, including robot main part and foretell dirt box, the robot main part includes cleaning device, drive arrangement.

The utility model also provides a clean system, including foretell mobile robot and basic station, the basic station includes bellying and interface, the bellying can with the depressed part butt joint for promote the movable part, the position of interface with inhale the export and be corresponding.

Further, in order to collect the garbage in the dust box more sufficiently by the base station, in an optimized scheme of this embodiment, the base station further includes a vacuum source, a recycling portion, a channel, and an air outlet, wherein the channel starts from the docking port, passes through the recycling portion and the vacuum source, and ends at the air outlet.

Further, in order to enable the mobile robot to be charged while emptying the dust box and the garbage, in an optimized scheme of the embodiment, the mobile robot further comprises a charging electrode, the base station further comprises a discharging electrode, and the positions of the charging electrode and the discharging electrode correspond to each other.

The utility model has the advantages that: compared with the prior art, the utility model provides a dirt box can be used for having the mobile robot of automatic rubbish function of falling, and this kind of structure is difficult to appear cleaning the in-process and is triggered by other objects and make the suction outlet lid open and cause the unrestrained condition of rubbish to the triggering of pure mechanical type can not increase extra electric consumption, improves user experience.

Description of the drawings:

in order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings required to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a first view of the cleaning system of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a first view of the mobile robot of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a second view of the mobile robot of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a split view of the mobile robot of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a partial enlarged view of the dust box of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a first perspective view of the base station of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of a portion of the cleaning system of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a first view of a first embodiment of the invention;

fig. 9 is a second view of the first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 is a first view of a second embodiment of the invention;

fig. 11 is a second view of a second embodiment of the present invention.

The specific implementation mode is as follows:

in order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. For convenience of explanation, the present embodiment uses directional terms such as left, right, inner, and outer, but this does not limit the scope of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 1, a cleaning system includes a base station 1 and a mobile robot 2, where the base station 1 may be used to charge the mobile robot 2 and recover garbage collected by the mobile robot 2 during operation.

As shown in fig. 2, 3 and 4, the mobile robot 2 has a robot main body 22 and a dust box 21, the robot main body 22 includes a cleaning device 222, a driving device 223, and a charging electrode 224, the cleaning device 222 may include a roller brush and an edge brush, or only one of them, the driving device 223 drives the mobile robot 2 to travel in a work area, the cleaning device 222 sweeps dust such as hair and dust into a suction opening, and the dust box 21 is sucked by a suction fan inside the mobile robot 2.

The dust box 21 is detachably mounted at the rear end of the mobile robot 2, the dust box 21 has a housing 218, the housing 218 has a surface whose contour matches the contour of the mobile robot 2, as shown in fig. 2, 3 and 4, since the mobile robot 2 is substantially circular, the outermost surface of the dust box 21 is configured as an arc surface, so that the overall contour of the mobile robot 2 mounted with the dust box 21 is a complete circle, and for convenience of description, this arc surface is referred to as a dust box outer arc surface, and the dust box 21 further includes: a containing cavity 215 for collecting the garbage, a concave part 211 formed by an inward concave shape at an outer arc surface, a suction outlet 212 at the bottom, a suction outlet cover 213 rotatably installed at the suction outlet 212, and a movable part 214 having a portion inside the containing cavity 215.

As shown in fig. 5, the dust box 21 further includes a rotating shaft 217, one end of the suction port cover 213 is rotatably mounted on the suction port 212, one end of the suction port cover 213 is provided with a cover shaft hole 2131, the suction port 212 is provided with a mounting hole 2121, the suction port cover 213 is connected to the suction port 212 in such a manner that the rotating shaft 217 passes through the cover shaft hole 2131 and the mounting hole 2121 at the same time, the rotating shaft 217 is in interference fit with either one of the cover shaft hole 2131 and the mounting hole 2121, and the other is in clearance fit. A torsion spring 216 is further installed on the rotation shaft 217, and the suction port cover 213 is normally in a closed state by the elastic force of the torsion spring 216.

As shown in fig. 8 and 9, the movable portion 214 may be an integrally formed structure, and includes a triggering portion 2141, a following portion 2142, and a fulcrum 2143, wherein the fulcrum 2143 is rotatably fixed on the housing 218, and the entire movable portion 214 can rotate around the center of the fulcrum 2143, wherein the triggering portion 2141 is located in the recess 211, the following portion 2142 is used for pushing the suction port cover 213, and the following portion 2142 may be directly connected to the suction port cover 213, may abut against the suction port cover 213, or may have a gap therebetween when the suction port cover 213 is closed, and may abut against the suction port cover 213 when the movable portion 214 moves.

As shown in fig. 8 and 9, the recess 211 is an inwardly recessed hole, since the triggering portion 2141 is located in the recess 211, when an object extends into the recess 211, the triggering portion 2141 can be contacted as long as the length is sufficient, and since the movable portion 214 is an integral structure, the entire movable portion 214 rotates around the fulcrum 2143, so that the following portion 2142 moves toward the suction port cover 213, and works against the elastic force of the torsion spring 216, so that the suction port cover 213 is pushed to open, i.e., the state of fig. 8 is changed to fig. 9.

As shown in fig. 6, the base station 1 includes a docking port 11, a vacuum source 12, a recovery part 13, a projection part 14, a discharge electrode 15, a cup holder 16, a passage 17, and an air outlet 18, and when the charging electrode 224 is in contact with the discharge electrode 15, the base station 1 can charge the mobile robot 2.

As shown in fig. 6, the channel 17 starts at the docking port 11, passes through the recovery section 13 and the vacuum source 12, and ends at the air outlet 18. When the vacuum source 12 is activated, air enters through the docking port 11, passes through the recovery section 13, and finally exits through the outlet port 18, as shown by the arrows in fig. 6, and a filter device is provided at the outlet of the recovery section 13 to retain dust in the recovery section 13 without entering the vacuum source 12 along with the passage 17, causing malfunction.

As shown in fig. 7, during the process of the mobile robot 2 returning to the base station 1, the convex portion 14 will abut into the concave portion 211 until the mobile robot 2 completely enters the base station 2. When the mobile robot 2 completely enters the base station 2, the positions of the docking port 11 and the suction port 12 are aligned, and the protrusion 14 pushes the triggering portion 2141, so as to push the movable portion 214 to rotate around the rotating shaft 217, the following portion 213 overcomes the elastic force of the torsion spring 216 to do work, so that the suction port cover 213 is opened, the torsion spring 216 accumulates elastic potential energy, so that the suction port 212 and the docking port 11 are docked to form a channel, and then the vacuum source 12 is started to suck the garbage in the dust box accommodating cavity 215 into the recycling portion 13 through the channel 17, so as to realize the function of transferring the garbage in the mobile robot 2 to the base station 1.

When the mobile robot 2 leaves the base station 1, the protrusion 14 is separated from the recess 211, the protrusion 14 no longer acts on the movable portion 214, the torsion spring 216 releases the elastic potential energy to return the suction port cover 213 to the original position, and further pushes the movable portion 214 upward, and the suction port 212 returns to the closed state.

In order to prevent the size of the mobile robot 2 from being too large, the mobile robot 2 cannot enter a narrow space due to the large size, so that the cleaning range is limited, unnecessary energy consumption is increased due to the large size, the capacity of the dust box 21 is limited, garbage in the dust box 21 needs to be dumped for several times during basic cleaning, and the use process is complicated. And basic station 1 is immovable, need not get into narrow and small space, so basic station 1's volume increase can not cause too big influence, the utility model discloses a basic station 1 can shift the rubbish in the mobile robot 2 to recovery portion 13, and the capacity of recovery portion 13 has the increase by a wide margin than dirt box 21, the frequency that can greatly reduced user clearance rubbish.

The switching of suction outlet lid 213 is controlled by whether there is the object to stretch into depressed part 211, such setting can effectively avoid the maloperation, when the narrower and thin length that depressed part 211 set up, then it just in time can get into to have the object, and even get into and need reach certain length just can contact movable part 214, more importantly, depressed part 211 sets up in the cambered surface of dust box outside, namely the rear of mobile robot 2, and mobile robot is cleaning the in-process, most of the time all is forward motion, can further effectively avoid being opened at the in-process suction outlet lid 213 that cleans like this, cause the unrestrained condition of rubbish.

Further, as shown in fig. 6, the recycling portion 13 is shaped like a cup, the handle 131 is arranged on the side surface, the cup cover 132 is arranged on the upper portion, the base station 1 further comprises the cup base 16, the recycling portion 13 is detachably mounted on the cup base 16, the handle 131 is arranged to facilitate taking and placing, when the recycling portion needs to be cleaned, the handle 131 is only held to separate the recycling portion 13 from the cup base 16, and the cup cover 132 is opened to clean the garbage in the recycling portion 13.

In some embodiments, the movement of the movable portion 214 may be other movement such as sliding, and the shape is not limited. As shown in fig. 10 and 11, the movable portion 214 includes: the trigger portion 2141, the follower portion 2142 and the connecting rod 2144, the connecting rod 2144 is fixed in the cylindrical hole 2181 formed in the housing 218 movably up and down, and in order to avoid shaking, a second elastic component is added at the gap between the cylindrical hole 2181 and the connecting rod 2144, the spring 219 is adopted here, the trigger portion 2141 is located in the concave portion 211, the follower portion 2142 is used for pushing the suction port cover 213, the follower portion 2142 can be directly connected with the suction port cover 213, and can also abut against, or a certain gap is formed between the suction port cover 213 and the following portion 2142 when the suction port cover 213 is closed, and when the movable portion 214 moves, the movable portion 214 can abut against the suction port cover 213.

When the mobile robot 2 returns to the base station 1, the protrusion 14 enters the recess 211, the trigger 2141 is pushed, the movable part 214 moves downward integrally, the spring 219 is compressed, the follower 2142 pushes the suction port cover 213 open, and the suction port 212 and the docking port 11 are docked; when the mobile robot 2 leaves the base station 1, the protrusion 14 leaves the recess 211, the force acting on the trigger 2141 disappears, and the spring 219 and the torsion spring 216 release the elastic potential energy to return the movable portion 214 and the suction port cover 213.

It should be noted that the spring 219 in the above embodiment is for stabilizing the movable portion 214 and returning to its original position faster when the external force acting thereon is removed, but it is also possible to achieve the basic function by providing the torsion spring 216 only at the installation of the suction port cover 213 and the suction port 212.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model provides a dirt box can be used for having the mobile robot of automatic rubbish function of falling, and this kind of structure is difficult to appear cleaning the in-process and is triggered by other objects and make the suction outlet lid open and cause the unrestrained condition of rubbish to the triggering of pure mechanical type can not increase extra electric consumption, improves user experience.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will understand that: the above description is only exemplary of the present invention and should not be construed as limiting the present invention, and any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. The dust box is characterized by comprising a concave portion (211), a suction port (212), a suction port cover (213), a movable portion (214), a first elastic component (216) and a shell (218), wherein the suction port (212) is used for discharging garbage in the dust box, the suction port cover (213) is movably arranged on the suction port (212), the first elastic component (216) is connected with the suction port (212) and the suction port cover (213) and is used for keeping the suction port cover (213) in a closed state, one part of the movable portion (214) is located in the concave portion (211), and the other part of the movable portion is located at the suction port cover (213).

2. The dust box of claim 1, wherein the movable portion (214) comprises: the suction nozzle comprises a triggering portion (2141), a following portion (2142) and a fulcrum (2143), wherein the fulcrum (2143) is rotatably fixed on the shell (218), the triggering portion (2141) is arranged in the recess (211), and the following portion (2142) is used for pushing the suction nozzle cover (213).

3. The dust box of claim 1, wherein the movable portion (214) comprises: trigger portion (2141), follow portion (2142), connecting rod (2144), there is cylindrical hole (2181) on casing (218), connecting rod (2144) pass cylindrical hole (2181), trigger portion (2141) sets up in depressed part (211), follow portion (2142) are used for promoting inhale the mouth lid (213).

4. The dust box according to claim 3, further comprising a second elastic member (219), wherein the link (2144) has the second elastic member (219) mounted thereon.

5. The dust box of claim 1, further comprising a rotating shaft (217), wherein a cover shaft hole (2131) is formed in one end of the suction port cover (213), a mounting hole (2121) is formed in the suction port (212), and the rotating shaft (217) passes through the cover shaft hole (2131) and the mounting hole (2121), wherein the rotating shaft (217) is in interference fit with either one of the cover shaft hole (2131) and the mounting hole (2121), and the other one is in clearance fit.

6. The dirt tray of claim 1, wherein the first resilient member (216) is a torsion spring.

7. A mobile robot, characterized by comprising a robot body (22) and a dust box of claims 1-6, the robot body (22) comprising a cleaning device (222), a drive device (223).

8. A cleaning system, characterized by comprising a mobile robot (2) as claimed in claim 7 and a base station (1) comprising a protrusion (14) and a docking port (11), said protrusion (14) being dockable with said recess (211) for pushing the movable part (214), the location of said docking port (11) and the suction outlet (212) being corresponding.

9. Cleaning system according to claim 8, characterized in that the base station (1) further comprises a vacuum source (12), a recovery section (13), a channel (17), an air outlet (18), the channel (17) starting at the docking port (11) and running through the recovery section (13) and the vacuum source (12) and ending at the air outlet (18).

10. The cleaning system according to claim 8, characterized in that the mobile robot (2) further comprises a charging electrode (224), the base station (1) further comprises a discharging electrode (15), and the positions of the charging electrode (224) and the discharging electrode (15) correspond.