Pool cleaning robot and a removable element

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10920440-B2
Application number	US-201916375030-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 4, 2019
Priority date	Dec 22, 2012
Publication date	Feb 16, 2021
Grant date	Feb 16, 2021

Abstract

A method and a pool cleaning robot that may include a housing; an opening formed in the housing; an impeller that is configured to rotate and to induce fluid to flow through the pool cleaning robot; a filter for filtering fluid that flows through the pool cleaning robot; and wherein at least one of element the filter and the impeller is configured to exit the pool cleaning robot through the opening.

First claim

I claim:

1. A pool cleaning robot comprising:
a housing;
an opening formed in the housing;
an impeller that is configured to rotate and to induce fluid to flow through the pool cleaning robot;
a filter for filtering fluid that flows through the pool cleaning robot; and
wherein the filter and the impeller are configured to concurrently exit the pool cleaning robot through the opening.

2. The pool cleaning robot according to claim 1 wherein the impeller is configured to rotate about an axis that is located at a center of the filter.

3. The pool cleaning robot according to claim 1 wherein the opening is formed in a bottom of the housing.

4. The pool cleaning robot according to claim 1 wherein the opening is formed in an upper portion of the housing.

5. The pool cleaning robot according to claim 1 wherein the filter is positioned within the housing and above the impeller.

6. The pool cleaning robot according to claim 1 wherein the filter is positioned within the housing and below the impeller.

7. The pool cleaning robot according to claim 1 comprising a motor that is configured to rotate the impeller.

8. The pool cleaning robot according to claim 7 wherein the motor is also configured to rotate a filter core of the filter.

9. The pool cleaning robot according to claim 1 comprising connecting elements for holding the filter within the housing.

10. The pool cleaning robot according to claim 1 wherein the opening has shape that equals a shape of a base of the filter, wherein the opening is larger than the base of the filter.

11. The pool cleaning robot according to claim 1 wherein the opening has shape that equals a shape of a base of the impeller, wherein the opening is larger than the base of the impeller.

12. The pool cleaning robot according to claim 1 wherein the filter comprises a filter housing, wherein a normal projection of the impeller on a bottom of the housing is surrounded by a normal projection of the filter housing on a bottom of the housing.

13. A pool cleaning robot comprising:
a housing;
an opening formed in the housing;
an impeller that is configured to rotate and to induce fluid to flow through the pool cleaning robot;
a filter for filtering fluid that flows through the pool cleaning robot; and
wherein at least one element of the filter and the impeller is configured to exit the pool cleaning robot through the opening; and wherein the opening is formed in a side portion of the housing, wherein the side portion of the housing differs from a top of the housing and a bottom of the housing.

14. A method for operating a pool cleaning robot, the method comprises:
rotating an impeller of the pool cleaning robot and inducing fluid to flow through the pool cleaning robot;
filtering the fluid by a filter of the pool cleaning robot; and
concurrently removing the filter and the impeller through an opening formed in a housing of the pool cleaning robot.

15. The method according to claim 14 comprising inserting the at least one element through the opening.

16. The method according to claim 14 wherein the removing comprises releasing the filter and the impeller from any other part of the pool cleaning robot.

17. The method according to claim 14 wherein the removing is executed without unscrewing the filter and the impeller.

18. The method according to claim 14 wherein the opening is formed in the side portion of the housing.

19. The method according to claim 14 wherein the rotating comprises rotating the impeller about an axis that is located at a center of the filter.

20. The method according to claim 14 wherein the filter comprises a filter housing, wherein a normal projection of the impeller on a bottom of the housing is surrounded by a normal projection of the filter housing on a bottom of the housing.

Assignees

• Maytronics Ltd

Inventors

• Witelson Shay

Classifications

• Y02T90/14

  Plug-in electric vehicles · CPC title

• Y02T90/16

  Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles · CPC title

• H02K7/1823

  structurally associated with turbines or similar engines · CPC title

• E04H4/1672 Primary

  Connections to the pool water circulation system · CPC title

• B25J11/00

  Manipulators not otherwise provided for · CPC title