Pool cleaning robot with removable filter and impeller

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11149459-B2
Application number	US-202117174254-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 11, 2021
Priority date	Dec 22, 2012
Publication date	Oct 19, 2021
Grant date	Oct 19, 2021

Abstract

A pool cleaning robot that may include a drive motor; an impeller; an impeller motor that is configured to rotate the impeller; wherein the impeller, once rotated at a first rotational direction, is configured 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 detachably coupled to one or more elements of the pool cleaning robot; and are configured to concurrently exit the pool cleaning robot while the impeller motor remains coupled to the one or more elements of the pool cleaning robot.

First claim

I claim:

1. A pool cleaning robot comprising:
a drive motor;
an impeller;
an impeller motor that is configured to rotate the impeller; wherein the impeller, once rotated at a first rotational direction, is configured 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 detachably coupled to one or more elements of the pool cleaning robot, and are configured to concurrently exit the pool cleaning robot while the impeller motor remains coupled to the one or more elements of the pool cleaning robot.

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 filter comprises a cylindrical shaped filtering element that is partially surrounded by the filter.

4. The pool cleaning robot according to claim 1 wherein the filter comprises a cylindrical shaped filtering element that is fully surrounded by the filter enclosure.

5. The pool cleaning robot according to claim 4 wherein the impeller motor is configured to rotate the impeller about an axis and wherein the filter enclosure contacts the axis.

6. The pool cleaning robot according to claim 1 wherein the filter and the impeller are mechanically coupled to each other.

7. The pool cleaning robot according to claim 1 wherein the filter and the impeller are distant from each other.

8. The pool cleaning robot according to claim 1 wherein a top of the filter does not exceed a bottom of the impeller.

9. The pool cleaning robot according to claim 1 wherein a top of the impeller does not exceed a bottom of the filter.

10. The pool cleaning robot according to claim 1 comprising a first fluid opening and a second fluid opening; wherein the impeller, once rotated at the first rotational direction, is configured to induce the fluid to flow from the first fluid opening, through the pool cleaning robot, and to exit the pool cleaning robot from the second fluid opening.

11. The pool cleaning robot according to claim 1 comprising connecting elements for holding the filter within the pool cleaning robot; wherein the one or more elements comprise the connecting elements.

12. The pool cleaning robot according to claim 1 wherein the one or more elements of the pool cleaning robot comprise a part of a housing of the pool cleaning robot.

13. A method for operating a pool cleaning robot, the method comprises:
rotating an impeller of the pool cleaning robot by an impeller motor of the pool cleaning robot at a first rotational direction thereby inducing, by the impeller, fluid to flow through the pool cleaning robot;
filtering, by a filter of the pool cleaning robot, fluid that flows through the pool cleaning robot; and
concurrently detaching the filter and the impeller from one or more elements of the pool cleaning robot thereby exiting the filter and the impeller from the pool cleaning robot while the impeller motor remains coupled to the one or more elements of the pool cleaning robot.

14. The method according to claim 13 wherein the one or more elements of the pool cleaning robot comprise a part of a housing of the pool cleaning robot.

15. The method according to claim 13 wherein the rotating comprises rotating the impeller about an axis that is located at a center of the filter.

16. The method according to claim 13 wherein the filter and the impeller are mechanically coupled to each other.

17. The method according to claim 13 wherein the filter and the impeller are distant from each other.

18. The method according to claim 13 wherein a top of the filter does not exceed a bottom of the impeller.

19. The method according to claim 13 wherein a top of the impeller does not exceed a bottom of the filter.

20. The method according to claim 13 wherein the concurrently detaching the filter and the impeller from one or more elements of the pool cleaning robot comprises concurrently detaching the filter and the impeller from connecting elements of the pool cleaning robot that are for holding the filter within the pool cleaning robot.

Assignees

• Maytronics Ltd

Inventors

• Witelson Shay

Classifications

• B60L2240/62

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