Peter Lydon

Pad Cleaning System For Robotic Vacuum Cleaners

Application

#2022040 Dec 22, 2022

Filed

May 19, 2022

Inventor

Jason Jeffrey Suchman (Arlington, MA) · Peter J. Lydon (Peabody, MA) · Guo Hui Pan (Dong guan, CN) · Gary Cui (Guangzhou, CN)

Appl. No.

17/748361

Assignee

Jason Jeffrey Suchman (Arlington, MA) · Peter J. Lydon (Peabody, MA) · Guo Hui Pan (Dong guan, CN) · Gary Cui (Guangzhou, CN)

International Classification

A47L 9/28, B08B 3/02, B08B 1/00, B08B 3/08, A47L 9/14

Abstract

A docking station for a mobile cleaning robot can include a base portion configured to receive the mobile cleaning robot. The docking station can include a housing connected to the base portion and a pad cleaning system. The pad cleaning system can be connected to the housing and can include a cleaning head engageable with a cleaning pad of the mobile cleaning robot to remove debris from the cleaning pad, the cleaning head can include a nozzle configured to discharge a fluid onto the cleaning pad.

Mobile Robot

Application

#2015012 Apr 30, 2015

Filed

Dec 30, 2014

Inventor

Eben Rauhut (Watertown, MA) · Peter J. Lydon (Peabody, MA) · Michael T. Rosenstein (S. Hadley, MA) · Michael Halloran (Waltham, MA) · Steven V. Shamlian (Watertown, MA) · Chikyung Won (Tewksbury, MA) · Mark Chiappetta (Chelmsford, MA) · Justin H. Kearns (Somerville, MA) · Orjeta Taka (Bedford, MA) · Robert Todd Pack (Hollis, NH) · Timothy S. Farlow (Billerica, MA) · Jasper Fourways Vicenti (Medford, MA)

Appl. No.

14/586341

Assignee

iRobot Corporation (Bedford, MA)

International Classification

B25J 9/16, G05D 1/02

U.S. Classification

700259, 901 9, 901 47, 901 1

Abstract

A mobile robot including a robot body, a drive system supporting the robot body, and a controller in communication with the drive system. The robot also includes an actuator moving a portion of the robot body through a volume of space adjacent the mobile robot and a sensor pod in communication with the controller. The sensor pod includes a collar rotatably supported and having a curved wall formed at least partially as a surface of revolution about a vertical axis. The sensor pod also includes a volumetric point cloud sensor housed by the collar and observing the volume of space adjacent the robot from within the collar along an observation axis extending through the curved wall. A collar actuator rotates the collar and the volumetric point cloud sensor together about the collar axis.

Mobile Robot

Application

#2013022 Aug 29, 2013

Filed

Jul 23, 2012

Inventor

Cheuk Wah Wong (Bedford, MA) · Eben Rauhut (Watertown, MA) · Brian C. Benson (Winchendon, MA) · Peter J. Lydon (Peabody, MA) · Michael T. Rosenstein (S. Hadley, MA) · Michael Halloran (Waltham, MA) · Steven V. Shamlian (Watertown, MA) · Chikyung Won (Tewksbury, MA) · Mark Chiappetta (Chelmsford, MA) · Justin H. Kearns (Somerville, MA) · Orjeta Taka (Bedford, MA) · Robert Todd Pack (Hollis, NH) · Timothy S. Farlow (Billerica, MA) · Jasper Fourways Vicenti (Medford, MA)

Appl. No.

13/555529

Assignee

iRobot Corporation (Bedford, MA)

International Classification

B25J 9/16

U.S. Classification

700258, 901 9, 901 46, 901 1

Abstract

A mobile robot including a robot body, a drive system supporting the robot body, and a controller in communication with the drive system. The robot also includes an actuator moving a portion of the robot body through a volume of space adjacent the mobile robot and a sensor pod in communication with the controller. The sensor pod includes a collar rotatably supported and having a curved wall formed at least partially as a surface of revolution about a vertical axis. The sensor pod also includes a volumetric point cloud sensor housed by the collar and observing the volume of space adjacent the robot from within the collar along an observation axis extending through the curved wall. A collar actuator rotates the collar and the volumetric point cloud sensor together about the collar axis.