Cleaner
AssigneeFunai Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorYoshihiro Kashiwagi
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Abstract
A cleaner capable of appropriately doing the cleaning at the time that a user intends is configured to include: a cleaning portion autonomously suctioning dust in accordance with a predetermined rule or procedure, a timer for detecting a time, an operational button portion accepting an input of the time, a storage battery storing power by charging, a memory storing a time period required for charging the storage battery and a charge start time, and a control unit controlling the operational button portion for accepting an input of the charge start time, calculating a cleaning-ready time based on the time period for charging the storage battery and the charge start time, and prohibiting the cleaning portion from suction of dust for a prescribed period.
Claims6
A cleaner, comprising:
- a cleaning portion autonomously suctioning dust in accordance with any one of predetermined rule and procedure;
- a timer for detecting a time;
- an operational button portion accepting an input of a plurality of charge start times and cleaning start time programming;
- a storage battery storing power by charging;
- a memory storing a time period required for charging said storage battery, said plurality of charge start times, and said cleaning start time programming;
- a device for calculating a plurality of cleaning-ready times based on said time period required for charging said storage battery and said plurality of charge start times;
- a device for prohibiting said cleaning portion from suction of dust during a prescribed period from time of detection of said charge start time by said timer until said cleaning-ready time, said prescribed period being equal to or longer than said time period required for charging said storage battery;
- a display unit displaying information;
- a cleaning-ready time control device for controlling said display unit such that said display unit displays information indicating said cleaning-ready time;
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- a warning control device for controlling said display unit such that said display unit displays information indicating a warning that an inappropriate time has been accepted if programmed cleaning start time accepted by said operational button portion is earlier than said cleaning-ready time.
A cleaner, comprising:
- a cleaning portion autonomously suctioning dust in accordance with any one of predetermined rule and procedure;
- a timer for detecting a time;
- an operational button portion accepting an input of a time;
- a device for controlling said operational button portion for accepting an input of a charge start time;
- a storage battery storing power by charging;
- a memory storing a time period required for charging said storage battery and said charge start time;
- a device for calculating a cleaning-ready time based on said time period required for charging said storage battery and said charge start time;
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- a device for prohibiting said cleaning portion from suction of dust during a prescribed period until said cleaning-ready time detected by said timer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.