Autonomous travel device
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKiyotaka Hirata, Atsushi Higuchi
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Abstract
An autonomous travel device is provided with wheels, a device main body, a power source that is provided on one end portion of the device main body within the device main body and causes the device main body to travel autonomously by driving the wheels, a battery for supplying power to the power source, and an accommodation unit for accommodating the battery from the other end portion of the device main body to a central portion of the device main body within the device main body. With this configuration, it is possible to easily perform replacement of the battery, and therefore, it is possible to perform autonomous travel that is stabilized due to disposition of the battery in consideration of the center of gravity of the device main body.
Claims11
An autonomous travel device comprising:
- wheels;
- a device main body;
- a power source that is provided on one end portion of the device main body within the device main body and causes the device main body to travel autonomously by driving the wheels;
- a battery for supplying power to the power source;
- and
- an accommodation unit for accommodating the battery from another end portion of the device main body to a central portion of the device main body within the device main body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.