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US 2021/0330167 A1Published application
Robotic vacuum cleaner and docking station for a robotic vacuum cleaner
AssigneeOmachron Intellectual Property Inc.
InventorWayne Ernest Conrad
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Abstract
A robotic vacuum cleaner docking station has a mechanical transfer mechanism that is used to transfer dirt from a robotic vacuum cleaner to a docking station.
Claims16
An apparatus comprising a docking station and an autonomous surface cleaning apparatus wherein, the autonomous surface cleaning apparatus comprises:
- (a) a primary air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet:
- (b) a primary suction motor positioned in the primary air flow path;
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- (c) an air treatment unit positioned in the primary air flow path, the air treatment unit comprising a dirt collection region;
- and wherein the docking station comprises a dirt receptacle and a mechanical dirt transfer mechanism operable to transfer dirt that has collected in the dirt collection region from the dirt collection region to the dirt receptacle.
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