Mobile robotic device having quick-release dust-collecting box

• US 20070143949A1
• Filed: 06/19/2006
• Published: 06/28/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: E-Supply Insternational Company Limited
• Original Assignee: E-Supply Insternational Company Limited
• Inventors: Chiu, Ting-Yin
• Application Number:
  US11/455,082
• Publication Number:
  US 20070143949A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 15/319
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 2201/00 Robotic cleaning machines, i.e. with automatic control of the travelling movement or the cleaning operation
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/106 Dust removal

Abstract

A mobile robotic device includes a frame body having a receiving recession recessed inward therefrom and a guide pusher formed thereon and extending toward the receiving recession and having a bevel formed at its one side; a dust-collecting box detachably mounted in the receiving recession and having an opening formed at one side thereof and an indentation formed at the same side as the opening for receiving the guide pusher while the dust-collecting box is inserted into the receiving recession; and a sealing member pivotably mounted to the dust-collecting box to seal the opening. Accordingly, while the dust-collecting box is drawn from the receiving recession, the sealing member can seal the opening to prevent the dust from escaping from the dust-collecting box.

Claims

1. A mobile robotic device having a quick-release dust-collecting box, comprising:

a frame body having an insertion hole formed at a side thereof, a receiving recession recessed inward, a guide pusher mounted to said frame body and located in said receiving recession, and a bevel formed at a side of said guide pusher;

a dust-collecting box detachably mounted in said receiving recession and having a receiving chamber formed therein, an opening formed at a side thereof and in communication with said receiving chamber, and an indentation formed at a side thereof for receiving said guide pusher while said dust-collecting box is inserted into said receiving recession; and

a sealing member pivotably mounted to said dust-collecting box and seal said opening and having a lateral edge corresponds to said indentation;

whereby while said dust-collecting box is inserted into or drawn from said receiving recession through said insertion hole, said guide pusher enters or exits said indentation and said bevel contacts against and works on said lateral edge of said sealing member to enable said sealing member to pivot toward or against said receiving chamber of said dust-collecting box to further unseal/seal said opening.

2. The mobile robotic device as defined in claim 1, wherein said dust-collecting box comprises two pivot cavities formed at two ends of a top side thereof;

said sealing member comprises two pivot bolts formed at two ends of a top side thereof and pivotably connected with said two pivot cavities respectively for pivoting movement of said sealing member.

3. The mobile robotic device as defined in claim 1, wherein said sealing member is a plate for pivoting movement driven by said guide pusher.

4. The mobile robotic device as defined in claim 3, wherein said sealing member is a collapsible plate having two plate pieces for collapsibly sealing said opening of said dust-collecting box.

5. The mobile robotic device as defined in claim 4, wherein said collapsible plate further comprises at least one slider formed at a side opposite to where said pivot bolts are located, and said dust-collecting box further comprises a slide rail formed at a side of said opening for slidable movement of said slider.