System with at least two floor treatment apparatuses

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10694912-B2
Application number	US-201816008178-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 14, 2018
Priority date	Jun 16, 2017
Publication date	Jun 30, 2020
Grant date	Jun 30, 2020

Abstract

A system has at least two floor treatment apparatuses for treating a surface in an automatically controlled fashion based on defined adjustment parameters of the floor treatment apparatus, wherein each of the floor treatment apparatuses features at least one detection device for detecting at least one detection parameter of the floor treatment apparatus and/or of an environment of the floor treatment apparatus. In order to enhance a system of this type in such a way that the floor treatment apparatuses advantageously cooperate and support one another, the system features a common database that is assigned to the floor treatment apparatuses. Detection parameters of at least two floor treatment apparatuses are stored in the database in association with the adjustment parameters of the respective floor treatment apparatus.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for operating a system with at least two floor treatment apparatuses for treating a surface in an automatically controlled fashion based on defined adjustment parameters of the floor treatment apparatuses, wherein each of the floor treatment apparatuses features at least one working element in the form of a floor treatment element driven by an electric motor, and at least one detection device that detects at least one detection parameter of the floor treatment apparatus and/or of an environment of the floor treatment apparatus, comprising the following steps:
storing the detection parameters of the at least two floor treatment apparatuses in a common database assigned to the floor treatment apparatuses in association with the adjustment parameters of the respective floor treatment apparatus, and
calculating the adjustment parameter of one of the floor treatment apparatuses based on at least one of the detection parameters stored in the database,
wherein each detection parameter is a property of the environment consisting of at least one of a type of surface to be treated, a material of the surface to be treated, a structure of the surface to be treated, and/or a work status of the floor treatment apparatus, the work status being one of a free or blocked mobility of the floor treatment apparatus, a power consumption of an electric motor of the floor treatment apparatus, and
wherein the adjustment parameter is at least one of a position of the working element, a rotational speed of the working element, a speed of the working element, a suction current of a motor-blower unit or a presence and/or adjustment of an attachment of the floor treatment apparatus, the attachment being a suction mouth and/or a sealing element.

2. A system comprising:
at least two floor treatment apparatuses configured for treating a surface in an automatically controlled fashion based on a defined adjustment parameter of at least one of the floor treatment apparatuses, wherein each of floor treatment apparatuses features at least one working element in the form of a floor treatment element driven by an electric motor, and at least one detection device for detecting at least one detection parameter of the respective floor treatment apparatus and/or of an environment of the floor treatment apparatus; and
a common database that is assigned to the floor treatment apparatuses, wherein the detection parameters of the at least two floor treatment apparatuses are stored in said database in association with the adjustment parameters of the respective floor treatment apparatus,
wherein each detection parameter is a property of the environment consisting of at least one of a type of surface to be treated, a material of the surface to be treated, a structure of the surface to be treated, and/or a work status of the floor treatment apparatus, the work status being one of a free or blocked mobility of the floor treatment apparatus, a power consumption of an electric motor of the floor treatment apparatus, and
wherein the adjustment parameter is at least one of a position of the working element, a rotational speed of the working element, a speed of the working element, a suction current of a motor-blower unit or a presence and/or adjustment of an attachment of the floor treatment apparatus, the attachment being a suction mouth and/or a sealing element.

3. The system according to claim 2 , wherein the database is stored in a local memory of one of the floor treatment apparatuses and/or in an external memory unit that is separate from the floor treatment apparatuses, the external memory unit being located on a web server or in a mobile communication device.

4. The system according to claim 2 , further comprising a control unit that accesses the database and is designed for controlling the floor treatment apparatus based on the adjustment parameter.

5. The system according to claim 2 , further comprising a computing unit that is disposed in the floor treatment apparatus and/or assigned to the database.

6. The system according to claim 5 , wherein the computing unit is designed for processing and transmitting detection parameters recorded by the detection device to the database and/or for accessing detection parameters stored in the database, as well as for calculating an adjustment parameter of one of the floor treatment apparatuses in dependence on at least one of the detection parameters.

7. The system according to claim 6 , wherein the detection parameters include a detection parameter of a first one of the floor treatment apparatuses and wherein the adjustment parameter is an adjustment parameter of a second one of the floor treatment apparatuses.

Assignees

• Vorwerk Co Interholding

Inventors

• Hackert Georg
• Helmich Martin
• Hillen Lorenz
• Holz Christian
• Isenberg Gerhard
• Koetz Hendrik
• Mosebach Andrej
• Ortmann Roman
• Dulinski Robin

Classifications

• A47L11/10

  motor-driven · CPC title

• A47L9/2805

  Parameters or conditions being sensed · CPC title

• A47L9/2894 Primary

  Details related to signal transmission in suction cleaners · CPC title

• G05D1/0297 Primary

  by controlling means in a control room · CPC title

• G05D2201/0215

  Physics · mapped topic