Cleaning robot
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsHyunsup Song, Hanshin Kim
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Abstract
A cleaning robot includes a main body, a traveling part provided at a lower portion of the main body to enable the main body to move along a floor surface, a suction part provided at the main body to suck foreign materials from the floor surface, a cover provided on an exterior of the main body, and a recessed part recessed at a predetermined position of the cover, wherein the cover includes a first cover positioned above the recessed part, and a second cover which is positioned below the recessed part and has a greater width than the first cover.
Claims16
A cleaning robot comprising:
- a main body;
- a plurality of wheels provided at a lower portion of the main body to enable the main body to move along a floor surface;
- a dust collection motor provided at the main body to collect foreign materials sucked from the floor surface;
- a cover provided on an exterior of the main body, the cover including a first cover and a second cover;
- and
- a recess provided at the cover, the recess extending across at least one side of the cleaning robot,
- wherein at least a portion of the first cover is positioned above the recess,
- wherein at least a portion of the second cover is positioned below the recess,
- wherein the second cover has a width greater than a width of the first cover,
- wherein the recess includes a first recess recessed inward at a first position of the cover and a second recess recessed inward at a second position of the cover, and
- wherein the cleaning robot further comprises a first sensor provided in the first recess and a second sensor provided in the second recess.
A cleaning robot comprising:
- a main body;
- a plurality of wheels provided at a lower portion of the main body to enable the main body to move along a floor surface;
- a dust collection motor provided at the main body to collect foreign materials sucked from the floor surface;
- a cover provided on an exterior of the main body;
- and
- a recess provided at the cover, the recess extending across at least one side of the cleaning robot,
- wherein the recess is recessed inward at a predetermined position of the cover to divide the cover into an upper cover portion and a lower cover portion,
- wherein the lower cover portion has a width greater than a width of the upper cover portion,
- wherein the recess comprises:
- a first recess recessed inward from a front side of the cleaning robot at a first height above the floor surface;
- and
- a second recess recessed inward from a rear side of the cleaning robot at a second height above the floor surface different from the first height, and
- wherein a height of the lower cover portion extends to the first recess and to the second recess.
A cleaning robot comprising:
- a main body;
- a plurality of wheels provided at a lower portion of the main body to enable the main body to move along a floor surface;
- a dust collection motor provided at the main body to collect foreign materials sucked from the floor surface;
- a cover provided on an exterior of the main body;
- a first recess provided at the cover, the first recess extending horizontally across a front side of the cleaning robot;
- a second recess provided at the cover, the second recess extending horizontally across a rear side of the cleaning robot;
- a first sensor provided in the first recess and a second sensor provided in the second recess;
- one or more low obstacle sensors spaced apart from each other and provided along a lower periphery of the cover;
- a plurality of spaced apart cliff sensors provided at a bottom of the cleaning robot;
- and
- a camera provided at an upper portion of the cover,
- wherein a lower portion of the cover located below the first and second recesses has a width greater than a width of the upper portion of the cover located above the first and second recesses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.