Title:
ROBOT VACUUM CLEANER
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH078428
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
PURPOSE: To make the management or the like easy, by making a robot cleaner more on a space to be cleaned, by itself while controlled by a microcomputer to clean the space, and making the same more to an automatic power source charging means in the case when the charged amount of a battery becomes less than a specific level during the cleaning, to automatically recharge the same. CONSTITUTION: This robot cleaner 11 comprises a driving means 5 which can be moved fore and aft, and can be free turned under the control of a microcomputer 2, sucks the dust or the like from an inlet port by the operation of a vacuum motor 8, and collects the same in a dirt storeroom 16 through the ducts 12, 14. A navigation sensor 23 for detecting the existence of the surrounding obstacle, and the distance and the direction of the obstacle, is mounted on a center of an upper face of a main body, and the casters 24 of a floor condition detecting means are mounted on the lower corner parts. When a charging level detecting means detects that the capacity of a battery 26 becomes less than a specific level, the operation for receiving the ultrasonics from an automatic power source charging means to be moved in the direction, and performing the recharging, is automatically executed.
Inventors:
KIN TAISHIYOKU
Application Number:
JP31375993A
Publication Date:
January 13, 1995
Filing Date:
December 14, 1993
Export Citation:
Assignee:
SAMSUNG ELECTRONIC
International Classes:
A47L5/28; A47L9/00; A47L9/28; A47L11/40; B60L11/18; G01S15/88; G05D1/02; (IPC1-7): A47L9/28; B60L11/18; G01S15/88; G05D1/02
Domestic Patent References:
| JPH04263822A | 1992-09-18 | |||
| JPH0446978U | 1992-04-21 | |||
| JPH05257533A | 1993-10-08 | |||
| JPH0546239A | 1993-02-26 | |||
| JPH04210704A | 1992-07-31 | |||
| JPH01149114A | 1989-06-12 | |||
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Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Masatake Shiga (2 outside)