Cleaner and control method thereof
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorChangjun LEE
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Abstract
Provided are a cleaner having a circulation system of collecting water used in damp cloth, filtering the same, and supplying the filtered water to the cloth, and a control method thereof. The cleaner includes a storage unit storing water, a collecting unit intaking water used in a cloth and introducing intaken water to an upper side of the storage unit, a filter unit filtering water collected by the collecting unit, a water supply unit allowing water within the storage unit to flow out from a lower portion of the storage unit so as to be supplied to the cloth, a vacuum motor operated to cause water to be intaken to the storage unit through the collecting unit, and a pump operate to allow water to be transferred through the water supply unit.
Claims16
A cleaner comprising:
- a rotary plate;
- a cloth that is attached to a bottom of the rotary plate and that is configured to receive water;
- a rotation driving unit that is connected to an upper portion of the rotary plate and that is configured to rotate the rotary plate about an axis that is perpendicular to the rotary plate;
- a storage unit that is configured to store water;
- a water supply unit that is configured to receive water from a lower portion of the storage unit, that is configured to provide water to the cloth, and that includes:
- a main pipe that is connected to the storage unit and that is configured to guide water from the storage unit to a center of the rotary plate;
- and
- a dispersion pipe that is connected to the main pipe, that is configured to disperse water disperses water guided by the main pipe in the diameter direction of the rotary plate, and that defines a plurality of dispersion holes;
- and
- a pump that is configured to move water through the water supply unit,
- wherein the rotary plate defines a plurality of supply holes that are configured to supply water to the cloth, and
- wherein:
- the vacuum motor is located on an upper portion of the storage unit, and
- the storage unit includes:
- an intake hole that is configured to communicate with the vacuum motor,
- a first partition that covers the intake hole and that extends from an inside side wall of the storage unit toward an inside upper wall of the storage unit, and
- a second partition that covers the first partition, that extends from the inside upper wall toward the inside side wall of the storage unit, and that defines a gap with the inside side wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.