Thin-type automatic cleaning device

• US 8,719,987 B2
• Filed: 07/21/2010
• Issued: 05/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jason Yan
• Original Assignee: Jason Yan
• Inventors: Yan, Jason
• Primary Examiner(s): Steitz, Rachel
• Assistant Examiner(s): GILL, JENNIFER FRANCES
• Application Number:
  US12/805,250
• Publication Number:
  US 20110191976A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,392 Days
• Field of Search: 153/19, 153/272, 153/277, 153401-3404
• US Class Current: 15/3
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4002 Installations of electric equipment
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4013 Contaminants collecting devices, i.e. hoppers, tanks or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4038 Disk shaped surface treating tools
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4066 Propulsion of the whole machine
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 2201/00 Robotic cleaning machines, i.e. with automatic control of the travelling movement or the cleaning operation

Abstract

A thin-type automatic cleaning device includes a main body, a fan module and a dust collecting box. The main body includes a placing chamber for receiving the fan module. The dust collecting box has an outer surface with a shape corresponding to that of the placing chamber, and the dust collecting box is received within the placing chamber. The lower casing is provided with a receiving cavity from the bottom surface toward the interior of the dust collecting box to cover the fan module. The dust collecting box forms a nested structure with the fan module thereby to reduce the thickness of the device.

Claims

1. A thin-type automatic cleaning device including:

a main body comprising a placing chamber;

a centrifugal fan module provided within the placing chamber; and

a dust collecting box having an outer surface with a shape corresponding to that of the placing chamber, and the dust collecting box being received within the placing chamber,

wherein the dust collecting box comprises a filter net, an upper casing and a lower casing, the upper casing and the lower casing engaged with each other, the filter net is all extending in a direction parallel to a bottom surface of the lower casing, and the lower casing is provided with a receiving cavity and an air vacuuming opening, the receiving cavity having a side wall that is protruding from the box bottom surface toward an interior of the dust collecting so that the receiving cavity is covering an outer surface of the fan module, and the air vacuuming opening, facing toward the fan module, is provided on a top of the receiving cavity the main body further comprises a top lid provided on a top side of the placing chamber, providing access to the placing chamber, and a bottom lid provided on a bottom side of the placing chamber, providing access to the fan module housed within the placing chamber, and the centrifugal fan module is provided on the bottom lid.

2. The thin-type automatic cleaning device according to claim 1, wherein

a dust vacuuming opening is provided on a bottom surface of the main body and extends to the placing chamber, a dust collecting opening is provided in the lower casing of the dust collecting box in a position corresponding to the dust vacuuming opening in the main body, and an air exhaustion opening provided at a periphery of the placing chamber extends through the main body.

3. The thin-type automatic cleaning device according to claim 2, wherein

the dust collecting box comprises a partition configured by a bracket and the filter net, and the partition is provided in the lower casing to lean against a circumference of the air vacuuming opening.