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US 7,610,651 B2Granted
Automatic cleaning device
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorOh-hyun Baek
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is an automatic cleaning device. The automatic cleaning device comprises an air injector, and at least one side brush. If air is suctioned into a body in accordance with operation of a suction motor, the air injector operates to inject the air to the outside of the body, to sweep out dust on the wall and corner of a room. The side brush serves to push the dust to a suction head.
Claims8
An automatic cleaning device comprising:
- a body;
- a suction head located at a location of the body and having at least one main brush and a brush motor to rotate the main brush;
- a suction motor located on the inside of the suction head to suction air;
- an exhaust located behind the suction motor to discharge the air to the outside of the body after dust, suctioned along with the air, is filtered by a filter cartridge;
- an air injector to inject part of the air, moving to the exhaust, to the outside of the body;
- and
- an auxiliary cleaner to direct dust to the suction head, wherein the auxiliary cleaner includes:
- at least one side brush having a rotating shaft mounted in a location of the body and a plurality of rotating blades attached to the rotating shaft;
- and
- a brush rotator to rotate the side brush in accordance with driving of the brush motor,
- wherein the side brush has a vertically movable lifting mechanism, and
- wherein the lifting mechanism includes:
- a rotating disk fitted around the rotating shaft to simultaneously rotate with the rotating shaft, the rotating disk having a plurality of slits;
- and
- a plurality of lifters extending upward from upper ends of the rotating blades, respectively, to be inserted through the slits in a vertically slidable manner, a stopper being formed at an upper end of each of the lifters.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.