Robot polisher

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11116377-B2
Application number	US-201716463919-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 20, 2017
Priority date	Dec 20, 2016
Publication date	Sep 14, 2021
Grant date	Sep 14, 2021

Abstract

A robot polisher has, in a box-shaped body part having a round shape in a plan view, right and left batteries, right and left wheel motors (not shown), and a pair of right and left wheels. The right and left wheel motors are rotationally driven by using the batteries as power supplies. The pair of right and left wheels can be individually rotated forward/backward by the respective wheel motors. On a lower housing, at the front-side lower part of the body part, a pair of right and left brushes are downwardly attached, which rotate in directions opposite to each other during traveling while being in sliding contact with a floor surface.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A robot polisher comprising:
a body part ( 1 ) configured to (a) receive, engage and retain a battery for an electric tool and (b) travel autonomously and ( 2 ) that includes (a) a pair of right and left wheels and (b) a wheel motor configured to rotate the pair of right and left wheels; and
a cleaning body ( 1 ) provided to the body part, ( 2 ) configured to be in sliding contact with a floor surface and ( 3 ) comprising a pair of right and left brushes configured to be rotationally driven, wherein:
each of the pair of right and left wheels is in an opening at a center of one of the pair of right and left brushes; and
the pair of right and left wheels are located in a central part of the body part in a front-rear direction.

2. The robot polisher according to claim 1 , wherein
the pair of right and left brushes are configured to rotate in directions opposite to each other.

3. The robot polisher according to claim 1 , wherein
each of the pair of right and left brushes includes a brush base having a round shape in a plan view, and a brush portion formed from multiple resin brush bristles downwardly attached to a ring-shaped area, excluding a center part, of a lower surface of the brush base.

4. The robot polisher according to claim 1 , wherein
the cleaning body is a pad mounted to a lower surface of the body part.

5. The robot polisher according to claim 4 , wherein
the pad is formed to be a nonwoven-fabric plate having a semicircular shape in a plan view, and is detachably mounted to a front-side lower surface of the body part.

6. The robot polisher according to claim 1 , wherein
the battery comprises a pair of batteries mounted symmetrically between right and left with respect to a center line in a front-rear direction of the body part.

7. The robot polisher according to claim 6 , wherein
the body part has, at a bottom surface thereof, casters which are located directly under the pair of batteries.

8. The robot polisher according to claim 6 , wherein
the batteries of the pair of batteries are configured to be mounted by being inserted from above to mounting portions of the body part, and in a mounted state, the pair of batteries are directed toward a center of the body part.

9. The robot polisher according to claim 6 , wherein
the batteries of the pair of batteries are sequentially used one by one as a power supply, and
the body part has a remaining capacity display portion configured to display a remaining capacity of each of the pair of batteries.

Assignees

• Makita Corp

Inventors

• Goto Masahiko
• Koura Kentaro

Classifications

• A47L11/40

  Parts or details of machines not {provided for in} groups A47L11/02 - A47L11/38, {or not restricted to one of these groups}, e.g. handles, arrangements of switches, skirts, buffers, levers · CPC title

• A47L11/4005

  Arrangements of batteries or cells; Electric power supply arrangements · CPC title

• A47L11/4061

  Steering means; Means for avoiding obstacles; Details related to the place where the driver is accommodated · CPC title

• A47L11/4066 Primary

  Propulsion of the whole machine · CPC title

• A47L11/4038

  Disk shaped surface treating tools · CPC title