Cleaning robot
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsByung Chan KIM, Woo Ram OH, Sang Sik YOON
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a cleaning robot including a body; a display unit configured to display information related to various operations of the cleaning robot; a dust collecting box separably coupled with the body to collect dust introduced through a dust suction port; an air cleaning box to replace the dust collecting box and installed at the body to purify air introduced into the body and then discharge the purified air; and a control unit configured to recognize whether a box installed at the body is the dust collecting box or the air cleaning box, and to control the cleaning robot to perform a cleaning mode or an air cleaning mode according to a recognized result.
Claims21
A cleaning robot comprising:
- a display unit configured to display information related to operations of the cleaning robot;
- a dust suction port;
- a body configured to removably receive at least one of a dust collecting box and an air cleaning box, wherein the dust collecting box is separably coupled with the body and configured to collect dust introduced through the dust suction port, and wherein the air cleaning box is configured to purify air introduced into the body and discharge the purified air;
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- a control unit configured to recognize which of the dust collecting box and the air cleaning box has been installed in the body, and to control the cleaning robot to enter a dust collecting mode in response to recognizing that the dust collecting box has been installed, and to enter an air cleaning mode in response to recognizing that the air cleaning box has been installed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.