Autonomous pool cleaning robot
OwnerYaniv Tamar, Eyal Tryber +4inventors
InventorsYaniv Tamar, Eyal Tryber, Yermi Herut, Shay Witelson, Oded Golan, Amir Gilead
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Abstract
An underwater station may include a filter manipulator that is arranged to input a filter into a pool cleaning robot that is located in a filter replacement position and to assist in positioning the filter at a filtering position in which the filter is at least partially disposed within a fluid path formed between a first fluid opening and a second fluid opening of the housing thereby allowing the filter to apply a filtering operation on fluid that passes through the fluid path.
Claims16
An underwater station, comprising:
- a filter manipulator that is arranged to input a filter into a pool cleaning robot that is located in a filter replacement position and to assist in positioning the filter at a filtering position in which the filter is at least partially disposed within a fluid path formed between a first fluid opening and a second fluid opening of the housing thereby allowing the filter to apply a filtering operation on fluid that passes through the fluid path;
- wherein the filter manipulator comprises a filter storage module that is arranged to store multiple filters and a movement mechanism;
- wherein the movement mechanism comprises (a) a rotation unit that is arranged to rotate the filter storage module thereby positioning the filter in front of a filter opening formed in the pool cleaning robot, and (b) an insertion and ejection module that is arranged to cause the filter to pass through the filter opening;
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- the movement mechanism is arranged to input the filter in the pool cleaning robot by moving the filter without moving the storage module.
A method for autonomous underwater operation, the method comprises performing in an autonomous manner, by an underwater station, a replacement of a filter of a pool cleaning robot;
- wherein the performing in the autonomous manner of the replacement of the filter comprises:
- rotating, by a rotating unit of a movement mechanism of a filter manipulator of the underwater station, a filter storage module, thereby positioning the filter in front of a filter opening formed in the pool cleaning robot when the pool cleaning robot is positioned in a filter replacement position;
- wherein the filter storage module is configured to store multiple filters and belongs to the filter manipulator;
- inputting, by the filter manipulator of the underwater station, the filter into the pool cleaning robot by moving the filter without moving the storage module;
- wherein the inputting comprises causing, by an insertion and ejection module of the movement mechanism, the filter to pass through the filter opening;
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- assisting, by the filter manipulator, in positioning the filter at a filtering position in which the filter is at least partially disposed within a fluid path formed between a first fluid opening and a second fluid opening of a housing of the pool cleaning robot thereby allowing the filter to apply a filtering operation on fluid that passes through the fluid path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.