Cleaner holder

• US 10,405,717 B2
• Filed: 05/09/2017
• Issued: 09/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Namhee, Kim, Jinju, Nam, Bohyun, Bae, Sehwan, Hwang, Jungbae
• Primary Examiner(s): Carlson, Marc
• Application Number:
  US15/590,056
• Publication Number:
  US 20170319034A1
• Time in Patent Office: 854 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 5/00 Structural features of suction cleaners
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 5/24 Hand-supported suction cleaners
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 5/28 Suction cleaners with handles and nozzles fixed on the casings, e.g. wheeled suction cleaners with steering handle A47L5/24 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/00 Details or accessories of suction cleaners, e.g. mechanical means for controlling the suction or for effecting pulsating action; Storing devices specially adapted to suction cleaners or parts thereof; Carrying-vehicles specially adapted for suction cleaners
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0063 External storing devices; Stands, casings or the like for the storage of suction cleaners
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/28 Installation of the electric equipment, e.g. adaptation or attachment to the suction cleaner; Controlling suction cleaners by electric means
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/2873 Docking units or charging stations for autonomous or robotic vacuum cleaners A47L2201/02
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/2884 Details of arrangements of batteries or their installation
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/44 Methods for charging or discharging circuits for charging H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/48 Accumulators combined with arrangements for measuring, testing or indicating the condition of cells, e.g. the level or density of the electrolyte constructional details of current conducting connections for detecting conditions inside cells or batteries, e.g. details of voltage sensing terminals, H01M50/569
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A cleaner holder includes a charging stand having a battery accommodating space formed therein in which a battery detachably mounted to a cleaner is accommodated, wherein the battery accommodating space includes: a charging port selectively in contact with a battery terminal provided in the battery; a battery guide configured to perform guiding such that the battery comes into contact with the charging port; and an inlet which extends toward an upper side of the battery guide and through which the battery is inserted or withdrawn, and an upper end of the inlet is higher than an upper end of the battery accommodated in the battery accommodating space.

Claims

1. A cleaner holder comprising:

a charging stand configured to charge a cleaner; and

a battery accommodating space that is defined in the charging stand, the battery accommodating space having an inlet portion that is configured to pass therethrough a cleaner battery that has been detached from the cleaner,

wherein the battery accommodating space includes;

a charging port configured to contact a battery terminal of the cleaner battery to thereby charge the cleaner battery; and

a battery guide configured to guide a movement of the cleaner battery such that the battery terminal moves toward the charging port,

wherein, based on the cleaner battery being accommodated in the battery accommodating space, an upper end of the inlet portion is positioned vertically above the cleaner battery, and

wherein, based on the cleaner being seated on the charging stand, at least a portion of the cleaner battery accommodated in the battery accommodating space is covered by the cleaner.

2. The cleaner holder of claim 1, wherein an inner peripheral surface of the inlet portion is stepped laterally outward from the battery guide.

3. The cleaner holder of claim 1, wherein the inlet portion includes a seating part that is stepped laterally outward from an upper portion of the battery guide, the seating part being configured to support an upper end of the cleaner battery that is accommodated in the battery accommodating space.

4. The cleaner holder of claim 1, wherein the battery accommodating space includes a recessed part that is recessed downward from a bottom surface of the battery accommodating space and configured to receive a corresponding protrusion of the cleaner battery that contains the battery terminal.

5. The cleaner holder of claim 4, wherein the protrusion of the cleaner battery defines a terminal hole that is configured to receive the charging port, the charging port protruding upward from a bottom of the recessed part.

6. The cleaner holder of claim 4, wherein an upper end of the charging port is located vertically below the bottom surface of the battery accommodating space.

7. The cleaner holder of claim 4, wherein the recessed part defines a drainage hole configured to discharge liquid received in the recessed part.

8. The cleaner holder of claim 4, wherein the recessed part is offset from a center of the bottom surface of the battery accommodating space.

9. A cleaner holder comprising:

a first body that includes a charging port, the charging port being configured to charge a cleaner;

a second body that protrudes from the first body; and

a battery accommodating space that is defined in the second body, the battery accommodating space being recessed from a surface of the second body and configured to accommodate a battery that is connectable to the cleaner,

wherein the second body defines a first groove configured to be coupled to a first coupling part of the battery and a second groove configured to be coupled to a second coupling part of the battery, and

wherein the first body defines a third groove that is connected to the second groove.

10. The cleaner holder of claim 9, wherein the first groove includes an opening at a surface of the second body, the first groove being configured, based on the battery being accommodated in the battery accommodating space, to expose the first coupling part of the battery to an outside of the battery accommodating space through the opening.

11. The cleaner holder of claim 9, further comprising an auxiliary groove on an inner peripheral surface of the battery accommodating space, the auxiliary groove being configured to be coupled to a first hook of the first coupling part.

12. The cleaner holder of claim 9, wherein the battery accommodating space is located between the first groove and the second groove.

13. The cleaner holder of claim 12, wherein the second groove is configured to support the second coupling part on a bottom surface of the second groove, the second coupling part being spaced apart from a surface of the third groove.

14. The cleaner holder of claim 9, wherein the battery accommodating space is configured to receive a battery having:

a first surface including the first coupling part;

a second surface facing the first surface and including the second coupling part;

a third surface intersecting the first surface and the second surface; and

a fourth surface facing the third surface and intersecting the first surface and the second surface,

wherein widths of the first surface and the second surface are less than widths of the third surface and the fourth surface.

15. The cleaner holder of claim 9, further comprising a charging port positioned in the battery accommodating space and configured to charge the battery.

16. The cleaner holder of claim 9, wherein the first body and the second body are integrally formed with each other.