公开(公告)号：US11950755B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-09

申请号：US17252181

申请日：2019-05-10

申请人： Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

发明人： Jeayun So ,  Chunseong Kim ,  Hankyeol Kim ,  Jihye Seo ,  Sangsik Yoon

IPC分类号： A47L9/28 ,  A47L9/30 ,  G02B5/10 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G05D1/02

CPC分类号： A47L9/2873 ,  A47L9/2894 ,  A47L9/30 ,  G02B5/10 ,  G05D1/0242 ,  A47L2201/022 ,  G05D2201/0215

摘要： A charging station is disclosed. The disclosed charging station comprises: a charging member configured to come into contact with a charging terminal of a robot vacuum cleaner to provide power to the charging terminal; a first light emitting member for emitting an infrared signal; and a reflecting member disposed to face the first light emitting member and reflect an infrared signal emitted from the first light emitting member, toward the front and sides of the charging station.

公开(公告)号：US11992176B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-28

申请号：US17012519

申请日：2020-09-04

申请人： Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

发明人： Jeayun So ,  Jinhee Kim ,  Jihye Seo ,  Yeonkyu Jeong ,  Jaeyoul Jeong

IPC分类号： A47L9/28 ,  A47L9/19

CPC分类号： A47L9/2815 ,  A47L9/19 ,  A47L9/2842 ,  A47L2201/024 ,  A47L2201/06

摘要： Disclosed is a cleaner. The cleaner according to an embodiment includes a main body, a suction device configured to suck dust outside the cleaner, a dust detection sensor including a light emitting element and a light receiving element disposed adjacent to the suction device, a dust container configured to store sucked dust through the suction device, and a processor configured to identify a dust inflow state and a dust amount of the dust container based on a voltage value output from the light receiving element, and control an operation of the cleaner based on the identified dust inflow state and dust amount, wherein the light emitting element and the light receiving element are disposed at an outside of the dust container in a direction toward an inlet of the dust container.

公开(公告)号：US12064082B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-20

申请号：US17482984

申请日：2021-09-23

申请人： Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

发明人： Jaeyoon Jeong ,  Minwoo Ryu ,  Donghun Lee ,  Shin Kim ,  Jeayun So ,  Jooseok Jeong ,  Changho Ha

IPC分类号： A47L9/28 ,  A47L11/24 ,  G05D1/00

CPC分类号： A47L9/2894 ,  A47L9/2805 ,  A47L9/2873 ,  A47L11/24 ,  G05D1/0225 ,  G05D1/0242 ,  A47L2201/022 ,  A47L2201/04

摘要： A cleaning robot and a method of controlling the same, the cleaning robot performing docking by detecting light emitted from a docking station using a Lidar sensor or a light receiving element separately provided on a printed circuit board (PCB) of the Lidar sensor, and performing docking based on the number of light emitting elements of the docking station identified according to the detected light are provided. The cleaning robot includes a main body, a drive unit configured to move the main body, a Lidar sensor including a Lidar optical transmitter, a Lidar optical receiver, and the PCB to which the Lidar optical transmitter and the Lidar optical receiver are fixed and provided to be rotatable, a docking optical receiver fixed to the PCB and configured to receive light emitted from the docking optical transmitter of the docking station, and at least one processor is configured to control the drive unit to be docked on the docking station based on light received by the docking optical receiver.

公开(公告)号：US11707175B2

公开(公告)日：2023-07-25

申请号：US16959485

申请日：2018-12-19

申请人： Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

发明人： Injoo Kim ,  Jeayun So ,  Jinhee Kim ,  Dongmin Shin ,  Sangsik Yoon ,  Jusang Lee ,  Hwan Chang ,  Junpyo Hong

IPC分类号： A47L9/28 ,  G05B19/4155 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G06F3/04842

CPC分类号： A47L9/2852 ,  A47L9/2857 ,  A47L9/2894 ,  G05B19/4155 ,  G05D1/0016 ,  G05D1/0219 ,  G05D1/0225 ,  G05D1/0291 ,  G06F3/04842 ,  A47L2201/022 ,  A47L2201/04 ,  G05B2219/45098 ,  G05D2201/0215

摘要： The disclosure relates to a moving apparatus for cleaning, a collaborative cleaning system, and a method of controlling the same, the moving apparatus for cleaning including: a cleaner configured to perform cleaning; a traveler configured to move the moving apparatus; a communicator configured to communicate with an external apparatus; and a processor configured to identify an individual cleaning region corresponding to the moving apparatus among a plurality of individual cleaning regions assigned to the moving apparatus and at least one different moving apparatus based on current locations throughout a whole cleaning region, based on information received through the communicator, and control the traveler and the cleaner to travel and clean the identified individual cleaning region. Thus, the individual cleaning regions are assigned based on the location information about the plurality of cleaning robots, and a collaborative clean is efficiently carried out with a total shortened cleaning time.