Pool cleaning robot with adjustable floats for water surface debris collection
AssigneeMaytronics Ltd.
InventorBoaz Ben Dov
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Abstract
A pool cleaning robot includes a cleaning unit configured to clean debris located at a water surface of a pool while the pool cleaning robot is partially submerged, a filtering unit, a fluid control mechanism, a sensor configured to generate an indicator regarding a reaching a waterline by at least a portion of the pool cleaning robot, and a controller configured to control the fluid control mechanism to set a flow of fluid related to the pool cleaning robot based on the indicator and a target measure.
Claims20
A pool cleaning robot, comprising:
- a cleaning unit configured to clean debris located at a water surface of a pool while the pool cleaning robot is partially submerged;
- a filtering unit;
- a fluid control mechanism;
- a sensor configured to generate an indicator regarding reaching a waterline by at least a portion of the pool cleaning robot;
- and
- a controller configured to control the fluid control mechanism to set a flow of fluid related to the pool cleaning robot based on the indicator and a target measure.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions executable by a controller of a pool cleaning robot for:
- controlling a cleaning by a cleaning unit of the pool cleaning robot of debris located at a water surface of a pool while the pool cleaning robot is partially submerged, the pool cleaning robot comprising a filtering unit;
- receiving an indicator generated by a sensor of the pool cleaning robot regarding reaching a waterline by at least a portion of the pool cleaning robot ;
- and
- controlling a fluid control mechanism of the pool cleaning robot to set a flow of fluid related to the pool cleaning robot based on the indicator and a target measure.
A method for cleaning debris located at a water surface of a pool, the method comprising:
- cleaning, by a cleaning unit of a pool cleaning robot, the debris located at the water surface of the pool while the pool cleaning robot is partially submerged, the pool cleaning robot comprising a filtering unit;
- generating, by a sensor of the pool cleaning robot, an indicator regarding reaching a waterline by at least a portion of the pool cleaning robot the pool cleaning robot;
- and
- controlling, by a controller of the pool cleaning robot, a fluid control mechanism of the pool cleaning robot to set a flow of fluid related to the pool cleaning robot based on the indicator and a target measure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.