Cleaner and cleaning method using the same

• US 20060048797A1
• Filed: 07/01/2005
• Published: 03/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jung, Woon Sung, Lee, Hye Rim
• Application Number:
  US11/171,258
• Publication Number:
  US 20060048797A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 134/21
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/009 Carrying-vehicles; Arrangements of trollies or wheels; Means for avoiding mechanical obstacles
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/02 Nozzles suction nozzles for fluid transport B65G51/00
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/2805 Parameters or conditions being sensed
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/2842 Suction motors or blowers
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/2852 Elements for displacement of the vacuum cleaner or the accessories therefor, e.g. wheels, casters or nozzles
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/2857 User input or output elements for control, e.g. buttons, switches or displays
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/2894 Details related to signal transmission in suction cleaners

Abstract

A cleaner and a cleaning method using the same. A cleaner having a plurality of cleaning modes, includes: a reader reading object identification data stored in an object identification medium attached to an object to be cleaned; and a control unit interpreting the object identification data read by the reader to identify a kind of the object to be cleaned and controlling the cleaner such that the cleaner performs cleaning in a cleaning mode corresponding to the identified kind of the object to be cleaned.

Claims

1. A cleaner having a plurality of cleaning modes, comprising:

a reader reading object identification data stored in an object identification medium attached to an object to be cleaned; and

a control unit interpreting the object identification data read by the reader to identify a kind of the object to be cleaned and controlling the cleaner such that the cleaner performs cleaning in a cleaning mode corresponding to the identified kind of the object to be cleaned.

2. The cleaner according to claim 1, further comprising a fan generating a suction force, wherein revolutions per minute of the fan differ among the cleaning modes so as to generate different suction forces in the cleaning modes.

3. The cleaner according to claim 1, further comprising a control information storage unit storing control information including driving levels of components of the cleaner based on the cleaning modes.

4. The cleaner according to claim 1, wherein the object identification medium is a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, and the reader is an RFID reader receiving object identification data transmitted from the RFID tag.

5. The cleaner according to claim 1, wherein the object identification medium is a bar code, and the reader is a bar-code reader reading a bar code containing object identification data.

6. A cleaner comprising:

a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader transmitting an RF signal to an RFID tag attached to an object to be cleaned, the RFID tag having a certification number, and receiving another RF signal transmitted from the RFID tag; and

a control unit interpreting the RF signal received from the RFID reader to identify a kind of the object to be cleaned and controlling the cleaner such that the cleaner performs cleaning in a cleaning mode corresponding to the identified kind of the object to be cleaned.

7. The cleaner according to claim 6, further comprising a control information storage unit storing control information including driving levels of components of the cleaner based on a plurality of cleaning modes.

8. A cleaning method comprising:

reading object identification data stored in an object identification medium and regarding an object to be cleaned;

interpreting read the object identification data to identify a kind of the object to be cleaned; and

controlling the cleaner to perform cleaning in a cleaning mode corresponding to the identified kind of the object to be cleaned.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the object identification medium is an RFID tag having a certification number, and the reading is performed by a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader receiving object identification data transmitted from the RFID tag.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the object identification medium is a bar code, and the reader is a bar-code reader reading a bar code containing object identification data.

11. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 9, wherein the RFID tag transmits an RFID signal in response to a received RFID request signal from the RFID reader.

12. The method according to claim 8, wherein the object identification medium is attached to the object.

13. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 8, wherein the object is an item of furniture or a surface.

14. A vacuum cleaning system, comprising:

an object type provider providing a type of an object to be cleaned;

a reading section reading the type of the object to be cleaned; and

a control section selecting one of plural cleaning modes based on the read type of the object to be cleaned and causing a vacuum cleaner to clean the object to be cleaned in the selected cleaning mode.