Samsung patents robot vacuum with swappable cleaning cloths
This filing describes a robot vacuum that uses a mechanical stopper to lock and release a rotating cleaning cloth module. The system allows the cloth to be detached from the motorized base without disassembling the entire unit.
In the filing’s own words
A robot cleaner includes a housing; a motor in the housing; a separation driver including a stopper configured to vertically move up and down; and a cleaning cloth module including a first member including a stopper insertion hole into which the stopper is insertable, and an attaching member to which a cleaning cloth is detachably couplable, and a second member configured to be rotated by the motor, and positioned between the first member and the cleaning cloth to be coupled and separably coupled with the first member.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A robot cleaner comprising: a housing; a motor in the housing; a separation driver including a stopper configured to vertically move up and down; and a cleaning cloth module including: a first member including: a stopper insertion hole into which the stopper is insertable, and an attaching member to which a cleaning cloth is detachably couplable, and a second member configured to be rotated by the motor, and positioned between the first member and the cleaning cloth to be coupled and separably coupled with the first member, wherein while the cleaning cloth module is rotated with the second member coupled to the first member, when the stopper vertically moves down so as to be inserted into the stopper insertion hole, the first member is stopped by the stopper from being rotated, then separated from the second member to separate the cleaning cloth from the first member.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- Robot cleaner
- Patent number
- US12751595B2
- Application number
- 18535418
- Filed
- Dec 11, 2023
- Granted
- Oct 6, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
A47L 11/282 Human necessitiesA47L 13/16 Human necessitiesA47L 2201/00 Human necessitiesMore from Samsung in Robots & automation
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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