Cleaner and control method thereof
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorChangjun Lee
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Abstract
Provided are a cleaner having a circulation system of collecting water used in damp cloth, filtering the same, and supplying the filtered water to the cloth, and a control method thereof. The cleaner includes a storage unit storing water, a collecting unit intaking water used in a cloth and introducing intaken water to an upper side of the storage unit, a filter unit filtering water collected by the collecting unit, a water supply unit allowing water within the storage unit to flow out from a lower portion of the storage unit so as to be supplied to the cloth, a vacuum motor operated to cause water to be intaken to the storage unit through the collecting unit, and a pump operate to allow water to be transferred through the water supply unit.
Claims17
A cleaner comprising:
- a rotary plate;
- a cloth that is attached to a bottom of the rotary plate and that is configured to receive water;
- a rotation driver connected to an upper portion of the rotary plate and that is configured to rotate the rotary plate about an axis that is perpendicular to the rotary plate;
- a container that stores water;
- a water supplier that receives water from a lower portion of the container, that is configured to provide water to the cloth, and that includes:
- a main pipe that is connected to the container and that is configured to guide water from the container to a center of the rotary plate;
- and
- a first dispersion pipe that is connected to the main pipe, that is configured to disperse water guided by the main pipe in a diameter direction of the rotary plate, and that defines a plurality of dispersion holes;
- and
- a pump that is configured to move water through the water supplier,
- wherein the rotary plate defines a plurality of supply holes that are configured to supply water to the cloth and defines a space that is configured to receive the first dispersion pipe, and
- wherein the plurality of supply holes are configured to communicate with the space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.