Drive controls principally for automatic swimming pool cleaners
AssigneeZodiac Pool Care Europe
InventorsFlorent Dallet, Simon Duffaut
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Abstract
Apparatus and methods for counteracting, e.g., drift of automatic swimming pool cleaners are detailed. In particular, a drifting cleaner may recover its movement by altering traction speed of the motive element(s) on one side of its body. Such alteration may occur when the cleaner is travelling along a generally horizontally-oriented pool bottom, climbing up or down a wall, or otherwise moving within a pool.
Claims3
An automatic swimming pool cleaner comprising:
- a. a body;
- b. an orientation sensor;
- c. a controller;
- d. at least one drive mechanism;
- e. a first motive element on a first side of the body;
- and
- f. a second motive element on a second side of the body opposite the first side;
- and in which the at least one drive mechanism is configured to drive the first motive element at a different speed than the second motive element upon command of the controller when the orientation sensor senses that the body is oriented in a manner other than planned while the automatic swimming pool cleaner is climbing a wall.
A method of causing an automatic swimming pool cleaner having a body to counteract a deviation from an intended course while the automatic swimming pool cleaner is climbing a wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.