GB2374797A - Self propelled and guided household or other indoor appliance - Google Patents

Self propelled and guided household or other indoor appliance Download PDF

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GB2374797A
GB2374797A GB0109927A GB0109927A GB2374797A GB 2374797 A GB2374797 A GB 2374797A GB 0109927 A GB0109927 A GB 0109927A GB 0109927 A GB0109927 A GB 0109927A GB 2374797 A GB2374797 A GB 2374797A
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Paolo Niccolai
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L11/00—Machines for cleaning floors, carpets, furniture, walls, or wall coverings
    • A47L11/40—Parts or details of machines not provided for in groups A47L11/02 - A47L11/38, or not restricted to one of these groups, e.g. handles, arrangements of switches, skirts, buffers, levers
    • A47L11/4061—Steering means; Means for avoiding obstacles; Details related to the place where the driver is accommodated
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
    • G05D—SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES
    • G05D1/00—Control of position, course or altitude of land, water, air, or space vehicles, e.g. automatic pilot
    • G05D1/02—Control of position or course in two dimensions
    • G05D1/021—Control of position or course in two dimensions specially adapted to land vehicles
    • G05D1/0212—Control of position or course in two dimensions specially adapted to land vehicles with means for defining a desired trajectory
    • G05D1/0225—Control of position or course in two dimensions specially adapted to land vehicles with means for defining a desired trajectory involving docking at a fixed facility, e.g. base station or loading bay
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
    • G05D—SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES
    • G05D1/00—Control of position, course or altitude of land, water, air, or space vehicles, e.g. automatic pilot
    • G05D1/02—Control of position or course in two dimensions
    • G05D1/021—Control of position or course in two dimensions specially adapted to land vehicles
    • G05D1/0231—Control of position or course in two dimensions specially adapted to land vehicles using optical position detecting means
    • G05D1/0244—Control of position or course in two dimensions specially adapted to land vehicles using optical position detecting means using reflecting strips
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L2201/00—Robotic cleaning machines, i.e. with automatic control of the travelling movement or the cleaning operation
    • A47L2201/02—Docking stations; Docking operations
    • A47L2201/022—Recharging of batteries
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L2201/00—Robotic cleaning machines, i.e. with automatic control of the travelling movement or the cleaning operation
    • A47L2201/04—Automatic control of the travelling movement; Automatic obstacle detection

Abstract

The invention comprises an appliance such as for cleaning floors, which is self propelled and may be powered by rechargeable batteries 4. The device is designed to follow a trace marked on the floor. This may be for example a reflective 'track' which defines the appliances route, and the trace can also be coded to cause the device to perform specific tasks. In the embodiment which comprises a chassis on which is mounted vacuum cleaning apparatus 8, a light illuminates the floor trace via a mirror and the reflection is sensed by a photo sensitive sensor 2 mounted on the appliance. In the embodiment the device in figure 4 is shown docking at a recharging station 9, where the switch 10 is automatically operated on docking, to switch off the power.

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"EXHAUST" The invention is an automatic system in order to do house works.
The main principle of the system is reading information from the floor surface in order to drive machinery designed and employed for various specific jobs.
The invention wants reduce the human activity employed in the various indoor works, one example is the cleaning of the house floor.
An example of the invention is showed in the accompanying drawings.
The figure N 1 shows a scheme of the main devices employed in the system.
The central control unit (1) receive from the photo-sensible sensor (2) information from the floor surface and use this information to calculate the right command to input to an electric motor (3), employed for the motion, and to a command direction device (7) employed to drive the assembly.
A timer (6), programmed by an external person, decide the starting time of the job.
Two batteries (4) supply power for all the system including the front light (5).
The figure N 2 shows the plant of a trolley where are allocated the mentioned device of the figure number 1.
The figure number 3 shows the trolley of the figure number 2 where a Hoover (8) is fixed on the chassis.
In the figure number 3 the trolley is approaching to the recharging station where a battery charger (9) will start to recharge the battery as soon as the switch (10) will be pressed and the trolley will stop the motion.
In this figure is showed the reading system, where a front light reflected by a mirror on the surface of the floor permit to a photo-sensible sensor to read information on the floor.
The figure number 4 shows an example of reflecting trace on the floor (11) with an example of the system in operation.

Claims (4)

  1. VICT T Slt "CLAIMS" 1) Exhaust included the battery charger and the accessories is an automatic system designed in order to house an indoor works, where the automatic system read the necessary information to decide the various commands from the floor surface.
  2. 2) Exhaust as claimed in claim number 1 where accessories means that the system is provided of various devices in order to do different works.
  3. 3) Exhaust as claimed in claim number 1 where in battery recharged means that the power system has been supply by batteries and a battery charger charge the batteries periodically.
  4. 4) Exhaust is substantially as here in described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings number 1,2, 3,4.
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WO2015082017A1 (en) * 2013-12-06 2015-06-11 Alfred Kärcher Gmbh & Co. Kg Cleaning system

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US4777601A (en) * 1985-03-15 1988-10-11 Jd-Technologie Ag Method and apparatus for a passive track system for guiding and controlling robotic transport and assembly or installation devices
GB2278937A (en) * 1993-06-08 1994-12-14 Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Robot vacuum cleaner
US5621291A (en) * 1994-03-31 1997-04-15 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Drive control method of robotic vacuum cleaner
US5622236A (en) * 1992-10-30 1997-04-22 S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Guidance system for self-advancing vehicle
GB2367641A (en) * 1999-06-24 2002-04-10 Dyson Ltd Appliance user interface

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GB1309420A (en) * 1969-09-24 1973-03-14 Buero Patent Ag Carriages for automatic rail-less transportation systems
US4777601A (en) * 1985-03-15 1988-10-11 Jd-Technologie Ag Method and apparatus for a passive track system for guiding and controlling robotic transport and assembly or installation devices
US5622236A (en) * 1992-10-30 1997-04-22 S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Guidance system for self-advancing vehicle
GB2278937A (en) * 1993-06-08 1994-12-14 Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Robot vacuum cleaner
US5621291A (en) * 1994-03-31 1997-04-15 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Drive control method of robotic vacuum cleaner
GB2367641A (en) * 1999-06-24 2002-04-10 Dyson Ltd Appliance user interface

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WO2015082017A1 (en) * 2013-12-06 2015-06-11 Alfred Kärcher Gmbh & Co. Kg Cleaning system
CN105873488A (en) * 2013-12-06 2016-08-17 阿尔弗雷德·凯驰两合公司 Cleaning system
CN105873488B (en) * 2013-12-06 2017-11-28 阿尔弗雷德·凯驰两合公司 Cleaning systems

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