Patent Application
20250223824
The disclosure relates to the technical field of water cleaning, in particular to an automatic pool cleaning device.
An automatic pool cleaning device can be used for cleaning a pool, such as a swimming pool, for example, cleaning a bottom, sidewalls and/or a water surface of the pool and/or collecting the garbage/sundries thereon or therein, so as to filter and purify the water in the pool. The automatic pool cleaning device is usually equipped with a cleaning component and a traveling mechanism, so as to perform a cleaning operation such as cleaning the bottom, the sidewalls and/or the water surface of the pool and/or collecting the garbage/sundries thereon or therein when traveling along a designated route with the traveling mechanism.
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is discloses an automatic pool cleaning device, which may include a traveling mechanism configured to drive the automatic pool cleaning device to travel, the traveling mechanism including a driving wheel; a cleaning component configured to clean the pool and/or the water in the pool, the cleaning component including a first cleaning component; a first transmission mechanism coupled with the traveling mechanism and the first cleaning component, the first transmission mechanism including a power transmission gear, wherein the power transmission gear configured to transmit a driving force to the driving wheel and the first cleaning component to drive the traveling mechanism to travel and drive the first cleaning component to rotate respectively.
In order to explain the technical solution in the embodiments of the disclosure more clearly, the drawings for the description of the embodiment will be briefly introduced below. Apparently, the drawings in the following description only relate to some embodiments of the disclosure. For those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained based on these drawings without paying creative work.
The detailed description set forth below in connection with the drawings is intended as a description of various configurations, and is not intended to represent the only configurations in which the concepts described herein can be practiced. The detailed description includes specific details in order to provide a thorough understanding of various concepts. However, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that these concepts may be practiced without these specific details.
In the description of this disclosure, it should be understood that the orientation and/or position relationships which are indicated by the terms such as center, longitudinal direction, lateral direction, length, width, thickness, top, bottom, front, back, left, right, vertical, horizontal, top, bottom, interior, exterior, clockwise, anti-clockwise, axial, radial, circumferential, one side, the other side and etc. refer to the orientation or position relationships illustrated in the drawings, which is only for the convenience of describing the present disclosure and simplifying the description, and does not indicate or imply that the device or element must have a specific orientation, be constructed or operated in a specific orientation, and thus it should not be interpreted to make any limitations on the present disclosure.
In addition, the terms such “first”, “second”, “third” and etc. involving the sequence are only used for descriptive purposes, and cannot be understood as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of indicated technical features. Therefore, features defined with terms involving the sequence such as “first”, “second”, “third” and etc. can include at least one of these features explicitly or implicitly. In the description of this disclosure, “plural” means at least two, such as two, three, etc., unless otherwise specifically defined.
In addition, in the drawings, the dimensions may be exaggerated for clarity of illustration and are not drawn to the actual scale. Like reference numerals generally refer to like elements throughout the drawings.
It should be understood that the automatic pool cleaning device 100 illustrated in
Under the control of a control unit (such as a microprocessor, a digital signal processor (DSP), a microcontroller, etc.), a driving mechanism is generally controlled by the automatic pool cleaning device to drive the traveling mechanism and the cleaning component to operate. In general, the automatic pool cleaning device is equipped with batteries as a power source, however, due to limitations of a size, weight and production cost of the automatic pool cleaning device, the capacity of the batteries is limited. Therefore, in the case of the limited battery capacity, it needs improving the endurance of the automatic pool cleaning device.
In view of the above, embodiments of the present disclosure propose that the driving efficiency of the traveling mechanism and the cleaning component can be improved by designing proper structures of the driving mechanism of the automatic pool cleaning device, thereby reducing the power consumption of the traveling mechanism and the cleaning component and enhancing the endurance of the automatic pool cleaning device.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the automatic pool cleaning device may include a traveling mechanism that can drive the automatic pool cleaning device to travel, wherein the traveling mechanism includes a driving wheel; a cleaning component for cleaning the pool and/or the water in the pool, wherein the cleaning component comprises a first cleaning component; and a first transmission mechanism coupled with the traveling mechanism and the first cleaning component, wherein the first transmission mechanism comprises a power transmission gear, wherein the power transmission gear transmits a driving force to the driving wheel and the first cleaning component to drive the traveling mechanism to travel and drive the first cleaning component to rotate.
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As an example, in the automatic pool cleaning device, there is a first transmission ratio between the driving wheel 20 and the power transmission gear 10; there is a second transmission ratio between the first transmission gear 11 and the power transmission gear 10, the second transmission being different from the first transmission ratio.
As an example, in the automatic pool cleaning device, the automatic pool cleaning device further comprises a second transmission mechanism.
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As an example, in the automatic pool cleaning device, the cleaning component further comprises a second cleaning component, such as the second cleaning component 130 illustrated in
As an example, in the automatic pool cleaning device, the first cleaning component and the second cleaning component comprise roller brushes.
As an example, the automatic pool cleaning device further comprises a driving mechanism for providing a driving force to the power transmission gear.
As an example, in the automatic pool cleaning device, the driving mechanism comprises a motor.
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As an example, in one embodiment, the drainage module 2000 comprises a pump body, an impeller and a water outlet cover, wherein the pump body, the impeller and the water outlet cover are sequentially installed at the first water outlet, and the water outlet cover is provided with a grille, and the water outlet cover can be detachably coupled with a housing of the automatic pool cleaning device, and the impeller and the pump body can also be detachably couple, so that it is convenient for a user to clean the impeller and the water outlet cover through disassembly.
As an example, in one embodiment, the automatic pool cleaning device further comprises a driving module 3000 and a filtering module 4000, wherein the driving module 3000 is arranged below the drainage module 2000 and the filtering module 4000 is arranged above the energy supply module 1000.
As an example, the drainage module 2000 includes a pump motor, an impeller, a guide cover and a pressure cover, wherein the pump motor provides a driving power source and the pump motor can rotate the impeller.
As an example, the driving module 3000 mainly includes electronic components such as a motor, and the driving module 3000 is configured to drive the cleaning device to travel, to rotate the roll brush, etc. The energy supply module 1000 mainly includes elements such as batteries, and the energy supply module 1000 provides energy for each module in the cleaning device.
In the structure of the driving mechanism 220 illustrated in
Based on the design requirements on the driving of the first cleaning component, such as a rotation direction and speed of the first cleaning component, and space for accommodating the first cleaning component, the number of intermediate transmission gears can also be adjusted. For example, only the first intermediate transmission gear 2410 is included and no second intermediate transmission gear 2420, that is, the first cleaning component transmission gear 2510 directly meshes with the first intermediate transmission gear 2410, while the first intermediate transmission gear 2410 directly meshes with the second driving gear 2230; as another example, the first cleaning component transmission gear 2510 can be directly meshed with the second driving gear 2230, that is, the first and second intermediate transmission gears 2410 and 2420 can be eliminated.
The driving mechanism 220 includes a driving gear set 2210, including a first driving gear 2220 and a second driving gear 2230 which are coaxially arranged side by side. As an example, the driving gear set 2210 may also adopt a dual-gear structure as illustrated in
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As an example, an axis of the first intermediate transmission gear 2410 coincides with an axis of the wheel transmission gear 2310.
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In addition, by different numbers of the intermediate transmission gears, the transmission ratio between the second driving gear 2230 and the first cleaning component transmission gear 2510 and/or the rotation direction of the first cleaning component transmission gear 2510 can be changed.
In addition, as an example, in the automatic pool cleaning device, the transmission ratio between the wheel transmission gear and the first driving gear is different from that between the first cleaning component transmission gear and the second driving gear. That is, although the first driving gear and the second driving gear are coaxially arranged, that is, arranged on the output shaft of the driving motor, the wheel and the first cleaning component can be driven through different transmission ratios, so that the rotating shaft of the wheel and the rotating shaft of the first cleaning component rotate at different speeds.
In addition, by the driving motor driving the wheel of the traveling mechanism and the first cleaning component respectively through the first driving gear and the second driving gear which are coaxially arranged, the driving efficiency of the traveling mechanism and the cleaning component can be improved, the energy consumption can be reduced, and the endurance of batteries of the automatic pool cleaning device can be increased.
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As mentioned above, in the automatic pool cleaning device, the traveling mechanism of the automatic pool cleaning device further comprises a track, and the wheel further comprises a driven wheel, wherein the driving wheel can drive the driven wheel through the track.
As an example, a driven wheel transmission gear 2160 is provided on the rotating shaft of the driven wheel 2150.
As an example, the automatic pool cleaning device can include a cleaning component to clean the pool and/or the water in the pool. As an example, the cleaning component includes a first cleaning component, and a transmission gear of the first cleaning component is arranged on a rotating shaft of the first cleaning component.
As an example, in the automatic pool cleaning device, the cleaning component comprises a roller brush.
As an example, in the automatic pool cleaning device, the cleaning component further comprises a second cleaning component. As illustrated in
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In addition, by arranging the transition gear 2170, the transmission ratio between the driven wheel transmission gear 2160 and the second cleaning component transmission gear 2180 and/or the rotation direction of the second cleaning component transmission gear 2180 can be changed.
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As an example, in the automatic pool cleaning device, the driving mechanism further comprises a motor for providing a driving force to the driving gear set.
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As an example, the outer surface of the track 23 is also provided with a plurality of second teeth 24, which enable the track 23 to more securely grasp the bottom and/or walls of the pool, improving the grip of the automatic pool cleaning device and the ability to climb the wall, and further ensuring the automatic pool cleaning device to travel stably and smoothly.
In one embodiment, the automatic pool cleaning device comprises a pair of driving modules respectively arranged at two sides of the body of the automatic pool cleaning device. The pair of driving modules can respectively drive a pair of power transmission gears 10. If the pair of power transmission gears 10 is driven to rotate at the same speed and in the same direction, the automatic pool cleaning device can travel straight forward or backward, and if the pair of power transmission gears 10 is driven to rotate at different speeds or in the opposite direction, the automatic pool cleaning device can make a turn.
According to the embodiment of the present disclosure, the traveling mechanism and the cleaning component of the automatic pool cleaning device can be synchronously driven to respectively travel and rotate, so that the driving power consumption is reduced, and the endurance of the automatic pool cleaning device is increased, thereby improving the user experience.
In addition, the driving mechanism structure of the automatic pool cleaning device of the embodiments is more concise, which simplifies the transmission mode and reduces the production cost; The driving mechanism is integrated, the overall structure is more compact, and the space occupied in the automatic pool cleaning device is smaller, so that more other functional modules can be installed in the automatic pool cleaning device.
Thus, several aspects of the present disclosure have been presented above with reference to various devices and methods. These devices and methods are illustrated in the drawings by various blocks, components, circuits, procedures, algorithms, etc. (collectively referred to as “elements”). These elements can be implemented using electronic hardware, computer software or any combination thereof. Whether these components are implemented as hardware or software depends on the specific application and the design constraints of the whole system.
In this disclosure, unless otherwise specified and limited, the terms “installation”, “setting”, “connecting”, “attaching”, “fixed” and “coupling” should be broadly understood, for example, they can refer to being fixed, detachable or integrated; they can refer to being mechanically connected, electrically connected or communicatively connected with each other; they can refer to being directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediary, and they can refer to being the internal connection of two elements or the interaction between two elements, unless otherwise specified. For those skilled in the art, the specific meanings of the above terms in this disclosure can be understood according to specific situations.
Apparently, the embodiments described above are only a part of the embodiments of this application, but not all the embodiments. Some embodiment of this application is illustrated in the drawings, but it does not limit the patent scope of this application. This application can be implemented in many different forms. These embodiments are provided to make the disclosure of this application more thorough and comprehensive. Although the present application has been described in detail with reference to the aforementioned embodiments, it is still possible for a person skilled in the art to modify the technical scheme described in the aforementioned specific embodiments or to replace some technical features with equivalents. Any modification, equivalent substitution and improvement made within the spirit and principle of this disclosure should be included in the protection scope of this disclosure.
The present application is a continuation-in-part application of PCT application No. PCT/CN2024/070971 filed on Jan. 5, 2024, the disclosure of which is hereby expressly incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
| Number | Date | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parent | PCT/CN2024/070971 | Jan 2024 | WO |
| Child | 19024443 | US |
