Floor treatment robot with personal weighing scale

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9486923-B2
Application number	US-201514877337-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 7, 2015
Priority date	Oct 8, 2014
Publication date	Nov 8, 2016
Grant date	Nov 8, 2016

Abstract

The invention relates to a floor treatment robot having an autonomously movable floor treatment appliance and having a housing. The housing of the floor treatment appliance has a standing area on the top side for supporting a person. At least one load cell is provided. The load cell is suitable for measuring the weight of the person. This floor treatment robot solves the technical problem of reducing the space requirement for different domestic appliances.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A floor treatment robot comprising:
an autonomously movable floor treatment appliance and
a housing, wherein
the housing of the floor treatment appliance comprises a standing area on a top side configured to support a person,
at least one load cell is provided, and
the load cell is configured to measure a weight of the person.

2. The floor treatment robot according to claim 1 , wherein
the housing of the floor treatment appliance is suitable for a load of at least 100 kg.

3. The floor treatment robot according to claim 1 , wherein
at least three support points of the floor treatment appliance each have a load cell.

4. The floor treatment robot according to claim 3 , wherein
bearing points of drive wheels and, where applicable, of freely running castors act as effective points of the load cells.

5. The floor treatment robot according to claim 1 , wherein
a base station is provided at least for charging a battery of the floor treatment appliance, and
the base station comprises a base plate configured to receive all support points of the floor treatment appliance, and
the at least one load cell is connected to the base plate.

6. The floor treatment robot according to claim 1 , wherein
an evaluation unit is configured to evaluate measurement signals of the at least one load cell.

7. The floor treatment robot according to claim 6 , wherein
the evaluation unit measures current dead weight of the floor treatment appliance before the weight of a person standing on it is measured.

8. The floor treatment robot according to claim 6 , wherein
a display is arranged in the floor treatment appliance or in a base station.

Assignees

• Vorwerk Co Interholding

Inventors

• Plachetka Robert

Classifications

• A47L7/0085

  adapted for special purposes not related to cleaning · CPC title

• A47L11/4005

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

• A47L9/2873

  Docking units or charging stations (for autonomous or robotic vacuum cleaners A47L2201/02) · CPC title

• G01G19/44

  for weighing persons · CPC title

• A47L5/00

  Structural features of suction cleaners · CPC title