CN216962340U - Maintenance base station and cleaning robot system - Google Patents

Abstract

The application provides a maintain basic station and cleaning machines people system, it is used for maintaining cleaning machines people to maintain the basic station, it includes the signal guiding device of basic station body and fixed connection basic station body to maintain the basic station, signal guiding device includes an at least first signal transmitter and an at least second signal transmitter, an at least first signal transmitter sets up in the rear side of basic station body, an at least second signal transmitter sets up in the front side of basic station body, a at least second signal transmitter's signal transmission direction and an at least first signal transmitter's signal transmission direction all are located same one side of basic station body. The first signal emitter and the second signal emitter can emit signals towards the same side to cooperatively cover a wider and longer-distance area, so that the success rate of the cleaning robot in docking with the maintenance base station is ensured.

Description

Maintenance base station and cleaning robot system

Technical Field

The application relates to the field of cleaning equipment, in particular to a maintenance base station and a cleaning robot system.

Background

The present maintenance base station can be used for maintaining the cleaning robot, for example, the maintenance base station can perform any one or more of charging, garbage recycling, mop cleaning and the like for the cleaning robot. Usually, the cleaning robot needs to be guided to be in butt joint with the maintenance base station through the signal guiding device, but the existing maintenance base station is provided with the signal guiding device on one side of the base, and due to the structural limitation of the maintenance base station, the radiation range and the radiation distance of the signal guiding device are very limited, so that the success rate of the butt joint of the cleaning robot and the maintenance base station is low.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The embodiment of the application provides a maintenance base station and a cleaning robot system, and aims to solve the technical problem that the success rate of butt joint of a cleaning robot and the maintenance base station is low due to the fact that the radiation range and the radiation distance of a signal guide device of the maintenance base station are quite limited.

The embodiment of the application provides a maintain the basic station, maintain the basic station and be used for maintaining cleaning machines people, it includes basic station body and fixed connection to maintain the basic station the signal guiding device of basic station body, signal guiding device includes an at least first signal transmitter and an at least second signal transmitter, an at least first signal transmitter set up in the rear side of basic station body, an at least second signal transmitter set up in the front side of basic station body, an at least second signal transmitter's signal transmission direction with an at least first signal transmitter's signal transmission direction all is located same one side of basic station body.

Embodiments of the present application also provide a cleaning robot system, the cleaning robot system includes a cleaning robot and the maintenance base station as described above, the cleaning robot may interface with the maintenance base station under guidance of the at least one first signal transmitter and the at least one second signal transmitter.

Different from the prior art, the maintenance base station and the cleaning robot system are arranged at the rear side of the base station body through the at least one first signal transmitter, the at least one second signal emitter is arranged at the front side of the base station body, the signal emitting direction of the at least one second signal emitter and the signal emitting direction of the at least one first signal emitter are both positioned at the same side of the base station body, said at least one first signal emitter and said at least one second signal emitter are arranged at opposite ends of said base station body, the situation that the first signal transmitter and the second signal transmitter are shielded can be avoided, and the first signal transmitter and the second signal transmitter can emit signals towards the same side to cooperatively cover an area with a larger range and a longer distance, so that the success rate of the docking of the cleaning robot and the maintenance base station is ensured.

Drawings

One or more embodiments are illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawings, which correspond to the figures in which like reference numerals refer to similar elements and which are not to scale unless otherwise specified.

FIG. 1 is a first schematic structural diagram of a cleaning robot system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 2 is a schematic perspective view of a maintenance base station according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 3 is a first schematic diagram of a lateral structure of a maintenance base station according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a lateral structure of a maintenance base station according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present new application more clearly apparent, the present new application is further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of and not restrictive on the broad application. All other embodiments that can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given in the present application without making any creative effort belong to the protection scope of the present application.

Referring to fig. 1 to 4, an embodiment of the present application provides a cleaning robot system 1000, where the cleaning robot system 1000 includes a cleaning robot 100 and a maintenance base station 200.

For the cleaning robot 100 provided in the embodiment of the present application, it can be understood that the cleaning robot 100 may be any one of a sweeping robot, a sweeping and mopping integrated robot, a floor washing robot, a floor wiping robot, and the like.

The cleaning robot 100 includes a robot main body 10. The robot body 10 is a main body part of the cleaning robot 100, and the robot body 10 may have any shape, such as a circular shape, a rectangular shape, or a D-shape, and is not limited thereto. In an alternative embodiment, the robot main body 10 may also have other design configurations, for example, the robot main body 10 is an integrally molded structure or a structure separately provided from the left and right, and the material, shape, structure, and the like of the main body are not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

The robot main body 10 may include a chassis and an upper cover assembly detachably mounted on the chassis to protect various functional components inside the cleaning robot 100 from being damaged by violent impacts or unintentionally dropped liquid during use; the chassis and/or upper cover assembly is used to carry and support various functional components. The surface of the upper cover assembly, which deviates from the chassis, forms an appearance surface, which can improve the overall appearance of the cleaning robot 100, and the appearance surface can be provided with keys, so that a user can conveniently operate the cleaning robot 100 through the keys. The installation cavity is formed between the chassis and the upper cover assembly, and the installation cavity is used for providing arrangement space for internal devices of the cleaning robot 100. The cleaning robot 100 may arrange a vacuum pump, a circuit board, a floor detection sensor, a collision detection sensor, a wall sensor, and the like in the installation cavity.

The cleaning robot 100 comprises a walking mechanism 20 installed on the chassis, the walking mechanism 20 comprises a pair of walking wheels, at least one universal wheel and a motor for driving the wheels to rotate, the pair of walking wheels and the at least one universal wheel at least partially protrude out of the bottom of the chassis, for example, under the action of the self weight of the cleaning robot 100, the pair of walking wheels can be partially hidden in the chassis. In an alternative embodiment, the travel mechanism 20 may further include any one of a track triangle, a Mecanum wheel, and the like. The running gear 20 may also not comprise the at least one universal wheel.

The cleaning robot 100 may be designed to autonomously plan a path on the floor surface, or may be designed to move on the floor surface in response to remote control commands. Cleaning robot 100 can navigate through one of them or several kinds of combinations such as gyroscope, accelerometer, camera, GPS location and/or laser radar, for example, cleaning robot 100 can set up laser radar at the top surface protrusion, scans the collection barrier data to the surrounding environment through laser radar, establishes the environment map according to barrier data, can fix a position in real time according to the environment map, is convenient for plan clean route.

The cleaning robot 100 can autonomously navigate to the maintenance base station 200, so that the cleaning robot 100 and the maintenance base station 200 complete the docking, which is convenient for the maintenance base station 200 to maintain the cleaning robot 100.

For the maintenance base station 200 provided in the embodiment of the present application, the maintenance base station 200 is configured to perform maintenance on the cleaning robot 100, and the maintenance base station 200 may perform maintenance on any one or more of charging, cleaning medium replenishment, sewage recovery, cleaning garbage recovery, and the like on the cleaning robot 100.

Referring to fig. 1 to 4, an embodiment of the present application provides a maintenance base station 200, where the maintenance base station 200 is used for maintaining a cleaning robot 100, the maintenance base station 200 includes a base station body 30 and a signal guiding device 40 fixedly connected to the base station body 30, the signal guiding device 40 includes at least one first signal emitter 41 and at least one second signal emitter 42, the at least one first signal emitter 41 is disposed on a rear side 43 of the base station body 30, the at least one second signal emitter 42 is disposed on a front side 44 of the base station body 30, and a signal emitting direction of the at least one second signal emitter 42 and a signal emitting direction of the at least one first signal emitter 41 are both located on the same side of the base station body 30.

Different from the prior art, in the maintenance base station 200 and the cleaning robot system 1000, by disposing the at least one first signal emitter 41 on the rear side 43 of the base station body 30, disposing the at least one second signal emitter 42 on the front side 44 of the base station body 30, and disposing the at least one second signal emitter 42 and the at least one first signal emitter 41 on the same side of the base station body 30, the at least one first signal emitter 41 and the at least one second signal emitter 42 are disposed at opposite ends of the base station body 30, so that the first signal emitter 41 and the second signal emitter 42 can be prevented from being shielded, and the first signal emitter 41 and the second signal emitter 42 can cooperatively cover a region with a larger distance towards the same side, thereby ensuring a success rate of the cleaning robot 100 interfacing with the maintenance base station 200.

In the present embodiment, the base station body 30 is a housing portion of the maintenance base station 200. The base station body 30 may be arranged with a circuit board 51, a charging assembly, and various sensors. When the maintenance base station 200 is placed against a wall, the rear side 43 of the base station body 30 is partially disposed against the wall, and the front side 44 of the base station body 30 is partially disposed away from the wall.

The number of the first signal emitters 41 may be one, two or more, and the number of the second signal emitters 42 may be one, two or more, which can be set by one skilled in the art according to the needs.

In some embodiments, the first signal emitter 41 may be an infrared emitting tube, the first signal emitter 41 is disposed at a substantially middle position of the base station body 30, the first signal emitter 41 may emit a mid-infrared signal, and the cleaning robot 100 may walk along the signal of the first signal emitter 41 in a straight line to approach the middle position of the base station body 30, and finally, may be precisely docked with the base station body 30. After the cleaning robot 100 is butted with the base station body 30, the metal contact of the cleaning robot 100 is contacted with the charging pole piece on the base station body 30, and the cleaning robot 100 can stop on the base station body 30 for charging. In other embodiments, the first signal transmitter 41 may also be any one of a wifi transmitter, a 2G/3G/4G transmitter, or a 2.4G wireless transmitter.

In some embodiments, the second signal emitter 42 may be an infrared emitting tube, and the number of the second signal emitters 42 may be at least two. At least one second signal emitter 42 is located on the left side of the base station body 30 and is configured to emit a left infrared guide signal, the cleaning robot 100 can roughly determine the orientation of the base station body 30 relative to the cleaning robot 100 according to the received left infrared guide signal, and then the cleaning robot 100 can approach the base station body 30 along the left infrared guide signal and further find the centering infrared signal of the first signal emitter 41 to dock with the base station body 30; at least one second signal emitter 42 is located on the right side of the base station body 30 and configured to emit a right infrared guide signal, and the cleaning robot 100 can roughly determine the position of the base station body 30 relative to the cleaning robot 100 according to the received right infrared guide signal, so that the cleaning robot 100 can approach the base station body 30 along the right infrared guide signal, and further find the centering infrared signal of the first signal emitter 41 to be docked with the base station body 30. In other embodiments, the second signal transmitter 42 may also be any one of a wifi transmitter, a 2G/3G/4G transmitter, or a 2.4G wireless transmitter.

It is understood that the cleaning robot 100 is provided with a first signal receiver corresponding to the first signal transmitter 41, and a second signal receiver corresponding to the second signal transmitter 42.

In some embodiments, the combined signal coverage angle range of the at least one first signal emitter 41 and the at least one second signal emitter 42 is greater than or equal to 150 degrees, wherein the orientation of the first signal emitter 41 is disposed at an angle with the orientation of the second signal emitter 42, the angle being greater than or equal to 50 degrees. The signal of the at least one first signal transmitter 41 may cover a certain angle range, and the signal of the at least one second signal transmitter 42 may cover a certain angle range, for example, the transmission angle of the signal of the first signal transmitter 41 reaches 60 °, the transmission angle of the signal of the second signal transmitter 42 reaches 60 °, and the coverage angle range of the combined signal of one set of the first signal transmitter 41 and two sets of the second signal transmitters 42 may reach 180 °, so that the first signal transmitter 41 and the second signal transmitter 42 may transmit signals toward the same side to cooperatively cover a region with a larger distance, thereby ensuring the success rate of the docking of the cleaning robot 100 with the maintenance base station 200. In other embodiments, a person skilled in the art may set an appropriate angle according to the actual situation, and the angle is not limited herein.

The base station body 30 has a bearing surface 45 extending from the front side 44 to the rear side 43, and a pair of wheel positioning grooves 46 recessed on the bearing surface 45. The bearing surface 45 is disposed to be inclined with respect to the ground, and the base station body 30 bears the cleaning robot 100 through the bearing surface 45. The pair of wheel alignment grooves 46 are used to cooperate with the wheels of the cleaning robot 100 for positioning, so as to help the cleaning robot 100 to stop on the carrying surface 45. The at least one first signal emitter 41 and the at least one second signal emitter 42 are located on opposite sides of the pair of wheel alignment grooves 46, respectively.

It can be understood that when the cleaning robot 100 moves forward on the carrying surface 45 along the signal of the first signal emitter 41, since the at least one second signal emitter 42 is disposed on the front side 44 of the base station body 30, the signal of the at least one second signal emitter 42 cannot cover the area where the carrying surface 45 is located, and the cleaning robot 100 no longer receives the signal of the second signal emitter 42 in the area where the carrying surface 45 is located, so that noise interference caused by the second signal emitter 42 can be effectively reduced.

Referring to fig. 1 to 4, further, the base station body 30 is provided with a receiving cavity 47 extending from the front side 44 to the rear side 43, the receiving cavity 47 has an opening 48 formed on the front side 44 and a light-transmitting sidewall 49 formed on the rear side 43, the light-transmitting sidewall 49 is disposed opposite to the opening 48, and the signal of the at least one first signal emitter 41 passes through the light-transmitting sidewall 49 and at least partially covers an area where the opening 48 is located.

In this embodiment, the bearing surface 45 is located at the bottom of the accommodating cavity 47. The accommodating cavity 47 is used for accommodating a cleaning robot 100, the cleaning robot 100 can enter the accommodating cavity 47 through the opening 48 so as to be in butt joint with the base station body 30, and when the cleaning robot 100 is in butt joint with the base station body 30, the cleaning robot 100 is accommodated in the accommodating cavity 47. The signal of the first signal emitter 41 can cover a certain angle range, and since the at least one first signal emitter 41 is located at approximately the middle position of the base station body 30, the signal of the at least one first signal emitter 41 passes through the light-transmitting sidewall 49 and at least partially covers the area of the opening 48, so that the cleaning robot 100 can quickly find the area of the opening 48 along the signal of the first signal emitter 41.

Referring to fig. 1 to 4, further, the base station body 30 is further provided with a mounting cavity 50, the mounting cavity 50 is located on a side of the light-transmitting sidewall 49 away from the accommodating cavity 47, the signal guiding device 40 further includes a circuit board 51, the circuit board 51 is mounted in the mounting cavity 50, the at least one first signal emitter 41 is disposed on the circuit board 51, and both the at least one first signal emitter 41 and the at least one second signal emitter 42 are electrically connected to the circuit board 51. Since the at least one first signal emitter 41 is disposed on the circuit board 51, the at least one first signal emitter 41 can be directly electrically connected to the circuit board 51. Since the at least one second signal emitter 42 is not disposed on the circuit board 51, and the position of the at least one second signal emitter 42 is far away from the circuit board 51, the at least one second signal emitter 42 needs to be electrically connected to the circuit board 51 through a wire.

Referring to fig. 1 to 4, further, the base station body 30 is provided with two side plates 52 extending from the front side 44 to the rear side 43, the two side plates 52 are connected between the opening 48 and the light-transmitting side wall 49, and the at least one second signal emitter 42 is disposed on one side of the two side plates 52 close to the opening 48. Wherein the bearing surface 45 is connected between the two side plates 52.

In some embodiments, the at least one second signal emitter 42 includes one second signal emitter 42. The one second signal emitter 42 is disposed on one of the two side plates 52.

In some embodiments, the at least one second signal emitter 42 includes two second signal emitters 42, and the two second signal emitters 42 are respectively disposed on the two side plates 52. Wherein the two second signal emitters 42 face to the left and right of the base station body 30, respectively, and the at least one first signal emitter 41 faces to the front of the base station body 30.

In some embodiments, the at least one second signal emitter 42 includes more than three second signal emitters 42. For example, at least two of the second signal emitters 42 are disposed on one side plate 52, and at least two of the second signal emitters 42 are disposed on the other side plate 52.

By arranging the at least one second signal emitter 42 on the side of the two side plates 52 close to the opening 48, the problem that all signals are concentrated to be emitted through the opening 48 of the accommodating cavity 47 to cover a narrow range due to the fact that all the signal emitters are arranged on the circuit board 51 in the middle can be avoided, the first signal emitter 41 and the second signal emitter 42 can emit signals towards the same side to cooperatively cover a wider-range and longer-distance area, and therefore the success rate of the butt joint of the cleaning robot 100 and the maintenance base station 200 is guaranteed.

In other embodiments, the base station body 30 is further provided with a connecting portion 53 connecting the two side plates 52, the connecting portion 53 and the two side plates 52 enclose the opening 48, and the at least one second signal emitter 42 is disposed on one side of the connecting portion 53 close to the opening 48, so that the problem that all signals are concentrated to be emitted through the opening 48 of the accommodating cavity 47 to cover a narrow range due to the fact that all signal emitters are disposed on the circuit board 51 in the center can also be avoided.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solution of the present new application, but not to limit the same; within the framework of the new application, also between technical features in the above embodiments or in different embodiments, which may be combined, the steps may be implemented in any order, and there may be many other variations of the different aspects of the new application described above, which are not provided in detail for the sake of brevity; although the present new application has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it should be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some technical features may be equivalently replaced; and the modifications or the substitutions do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions depart from the scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application.

Claims (10)

1. The maintenance base station is used for maintaining a cleaning robot and is characterized by comprising a base station body and a signal guide device fixedly connected with the base station body, wherein the signal guide device comprises at least one first signal transmitter and at least one second signal transmitter, the at least one first signal transmitter is arranged on the rear side of the base station body, the at least one second signal transmitter is arranged on the front side of the base station body, and the signal transmitting direction of the at least one second signal transmitter and the signal transmitting direction of the at least one first signal transmitter are both positioned on the same side of the base station body.

2. The maintenance base as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base body is provided with a receiving cavity extending from a front side to a rear side, the receiving cavity having an opening formed in the front side and a light-transmitting sidewall formed in the rear side, the light-transmitting sidewall being disposed opposite to the opening, and the signal of the at least one first signal transmitter passing through the light-transmitting sidewall and at least partially covering an area where the opening is located.

3. The maintenance base of claim 2, wherein the base body has two side plates extending from a front side toward a rear side, the two side plates being connected between the opening and the light-transmitting side wall, and the at least one second signal transmitter is disposed on a side of the two side plates adjacent to the opening.

4. The maintenance base station of claim 3, wherein the at least one second signal transmitter comprises two second signal transmitters, the two second signal transmitters being respectively disposed on the two side plates.

5. The maintenance base station of claim 4, wherein said two second signal transmitters are respectively directed to the left and right sides of said base station body, and said at least one first signal transmitter is directed directly in front of said base station body.

6. The maintenance base station as claimed in claim 3, wherein the base station body further has a connecting portion connecting the two side plates, the connecting portion and the two side plates enclose the opening, and the at least one second signal transmitter is disposed on a side of the connecting portion close to the opening.

7. The maintenance base station of claim 2, wherein the base station body further comprises a mounting cavity, the mounting cavity is located on a side of the transparent sidewall away from the accommodating cavity, the signal guiding device further comprises a circuit board, the circuit board is mounted in the mounting cavity, the at least one first signal emitter is disposed on the circuit board, and both the at least one first signal emitter and the at least one second signal emitter are electrically connected to the circuit board.

8. The maintenance base station of claim 1, wherein a combined signal coverage angle range of the at least one first signal transmitter and the at least one second signal transmitter is greater than or equal to 150 degrees.

9. The maintenance base of claim 1, wherein the base body has a bearing surface extending from a front side to a rear side, and a pair of wheel alignment grooves recessed in the bearing surface, the base body carrying the cleaning robot through the bearing surface, the pair of wheel alignment grooves configured to engage with wheels of the cleaning robot for positioning, the at least one first signal transmitter and the at least one second signal transmitter being located on opposite sides of the pair of wheel alignment grooves.

10. A cleaning robot system, characterized in that the cleaning robot system comprises a cleaning robot and a maintenance base station according to any of claims 1-9, the cleaning robot being dockable with the maintenance base station under guidance of the at least one first signal transmitter and the at least one second signal transmitter.

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