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US 11,274,462 B2Granted
Controlling a movement of a pool cleaning robot
AssigneeMaytronics Ltd.
InventorsEyal Tryber, Shay Witelson
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Abstract
A pool cleaning robot that includes a ballast tank for controlling a buoyancy of the submarine pool cleaner; at least one cleaning element for cleaning debris from an underwater surface of a pool while the pool cleaning robot hovers over the underwater surface; a propulsion module that is configured to propel the submersible pool cleaner; and a steering module that comprises a rudder and diving planes.
Claims21
A pool cleaning robot, comprising:
- a housing;
- a filtering mechanism configured to filter fluid;
- at least one cleaning element;
- a propulsion module that is configured to propel the pool cleaning robot;
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- an inverter that is configured to invert the housing during a part of a diving process of the pool cleaning robot.
3 more elements
A method for operating a pool cleaning robot, the method comprises:
- executing a diving process of the pool cleaning robot, wherein the executing comprises inverting a housing of the pool cleaning robot, by an inverter, during a part of the diving process of the pool cleaning robot;
- wherein the method further comprises filtering fluid by a filtering mechanism of the pool cleaning robot;
- and propelling, by a propulsion module of the pool cleaning robot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.