Mobile robot having a humidifier therein

• US 20060186561A1
• Filed: 09/15/2005
• Published: 08/24/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Lim, Kwang-soo, Ko, Jang-youn, Jeung, Sam-jong, Lee, Ju-sang, Song, Jeong-gon, Kim, Ki-man
• Application Number:
  US11/226,337
• Publication Number:
  US 20060186561A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 261/26
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 7/04 for using the exhaust air for other purposes, e.g. for distribution of chemicals in a room, for sterilisation of the air spraying or atomising in general B05
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/30 for purposes related to the operation of the system, e.g. for safety or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/62 characterised by the type of control or by internal processing, e.g. using fuzzy logic, adaptive control or estimation of values
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2110/20 Humidity
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2221/125 mounted on wheels
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2221/42 Mobile autonomous air conditioner, e.g. robots
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 6/00 Air-humidification , e.g. cooling by humidification

Abstract

A mobile robot capable of humidifying an entire room. The mobile robot comprises a driving part for movably supporting a body and providing a driving force to move the body, a humidifier disposed on the body; and a controller for controlling the driving part.

Claims

1. A mobile robot comprising:

a driving part for movably supporting a body and providing a driving force to move the body;

a humidifier disposed on the body; and

a controller for controlling the driving part.

2. The mobile robot as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a humidity sensor detecting an indoor humidity level, wherein the controller controls an ON/OFF switching of the humidifier according to the humidity level detected by the humidity sensor.

3. The mobile robot as claimed in claim 1, wherein the humidifier comprises:

a reservoir for containing a fluid; and

an evaporating module for converting the fluid supplied from the reservoir into vapor and distributing the vapor to the outside.

4. The mobile robot as claimed in claim 3, wherein the evaporating module comprises:

an evaporator for converting the fluid into vapor; and

a discharge pipe for discharging the vapor to the outside.

5. The mobile robot as claimed in claim 4, wherein the reservoir is provided with an injection port for injecting the fluid therethrough, and the injection port and the discharge pipe are exposed to the outside through an injection port hole and a discharge pipe hole formed on a cover for covering the body.

6. The mobile robot as claimed in claim 5, wherein the driving part comprises:

at least one driving motor controlled by the controller;

a pair of driving wheels connected to the driving motor and disposed at opposite sides of the body;

a pair of driven wheels connected to the pair of driving wheel to transmit a driving force; and

a pair of idle wheels for supporting the body,

wherein the reservoir is disposed on the body in such a way that the driving wheels, the driven wheels and the idle wheels are subjected to the same load of the reservoir.

7. The mobile robot as claimed in claim 6, wherein a pair of the reservoirs are disposed on opposite sides of the body to be located above the driving wheel, the driven wheels, and the idle wheels.

8. The mobile robot as claimed in claim 7, wherein the humidifier further comprise a connection pipe for connecting the reservoir and the evaporator to supply the fluid from the reservoir to the evaporator.

9. A mobile robot comprising:

a driving part for movably supporting a body and providing a driving force to move the body;

a humidifier disposed on the body;

a humidity sensor for detecting an indoor humidity level;

a dust suction part disposed in the body to perform a cleaning operation with respect to a surface; and

a controller for controlling the driving of the driving part and an ON/OFF switching of the humidifier according to the indoor humidity level detected by the humidity sensor.