Vacuum cleaner system notifying state of dust collection part and operating method of vacuum cleaner system
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJeonghee Cho, Sanghyuk Park, Seongu Lee, Jihye Seo, Kiyong Lee
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Abstract
A vacuum cleaner system is provided. The vacuum cleaner includes a wireless vacuum cleaner for discharging dust to a station device, wherein the wireless vacuum cleaner is configured to, when performing a dust discharge operation to the station device, determine a state of a dust collection part included in the station device, based on a pressure ratio between pressure values measured by a sensor mounted on the wireless vacuum cleaner, and output a notification indicating the determined state.
Claims20
A wireless vacuum cleaner for discharging dust to a station device, the wireless vacuum cleaner comprising:
- a first dust collection part configured to collect dust introduced to the wireless vacuum cleaner;
- a first suction motor configured to generate suction power for collecting dust in the first dust collection part;
- a sensor mounted on a portion of a first suction flow path of the wireless vacuum cleaner;
- memory, comprising one or more storage media, storing instructions;
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- at least one processor communicatively coupled to the first suction motor, the sensor and the memory,
- wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, causes the wireless vacuum cleaner to:
- obtain, as a first pressure value, a pressure value measured by the sensor when a second suction motor of the station device operates while there is no dust in the first dust collection part and a second dust collection part of the station device;
- obtain, as a second pressure value, a pressure value measured by the sensor when a dust discharge operation in which dust of the first dust collection part is discharged to the second dust collection part of the station device is performed;
- detect a ratio of the second pressure value to the first pressure value;
- determine a state of the second dust collection part according to the detected ratio;
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- output notification information indicating the determined state of the second dust collection part.
A method of operating a wireless vacuum cleaner, the wireless vacuum cleaner comprising:
- a sensor mounted on a portion of a first suction flow path of the wireless vacuum cleaner for discharging dust to a station device;
- a first dust collection part configured to collect dust introduced to the wireless vacuum cleaner;
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- a first suction motor configured to generate suction power for collecting dust in the first dust collection part,
- the method comprising:
- obtaining, as a first pressure value, a pressure value measured by the sensor when a second suction motor of the station device operates while there is no dust in the first dust collection part and a second dust collection part of the station device;
- obtaining, as a second pressure value, a pressure value measured by the sensor when a dust discharge operation in which dust of the first dust collection part is discharged to the second dust collection part of the station device is performed;
- detecting a ratio of the second pressure value to the first pressure value;
- detecting a state of the second dust collection part included in the station device according to the detected ratio;
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- outputting notification information indicating the state of the second dust collection part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.