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US 2021/0330157 A1Published application
Robotic vacuum cleaner with dirt enclosing member and method of using the same
AssigneeOmachron Intellectual Property Inc.
InventorWayne Ernest Conrad
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Abstract
An autonomous surface cleaning apparatus has a dirt enclosing member providing a first closed container and a depositing member which deposits the closed container at a location that is exterior to the autonomous surface cleaning apparatus.
Claims20
An autonomous surface cleaning apparatus comprising:
- (a) an air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet:
- (b) a suction motor positioned in the primary flow path;
- (c) an air treatment unit positioned in the air flow path, the air treatment unit comprising a dirt collection region in which dirt is collected;
- (d) a dirt enclosing member providing a first closed container in which at least some of the dirt that is collected in the dirt collection region is positioned;
- and,
- (e) a depositing member which deposits the closed container at a location that is exterior to the autonomous surface cleaning apparatus.
3 more elements
A method of cleaning a floor comprising:
- (a) having an autonomous surface cleaning apparatus clean at least a portion of the floor;
- (b) collecting dirt in the autonomous surface cleaning apparatus;
- (c) enclosing at least some of the dirt in a first closed container and depositing the first closed container at a location that is exterior to the autonomous surface cleaning apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.