Patent №
US 8,910,342
Granted
2014-12-16
Filed 2014
Owner
IROBOT CORPORATION
Lab
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AI components
1
planning
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
14302474
A robot cleaning system includes a debris collection volume, a vacuum airway configured to deliver debris to the debris collection volume, and a cleaning head in pneumatic communication with the vacuum airway. The cleaning head includes two shape-changing resilient tubes separated by an air gap opposing the vacuum airway. The cleaning head is operable in a first configuration, where the two shape-changing resilient tubes rotate against a cleaning surface engaged by the cleaning head to agitate debris on the cleaning surface to pass through the air gap and into the vacuum airway, and a second configuration, where both shape changing resilient tubes deform opposite one another to roll an object larger than the air gap to pass into the vacuum airway.
AI classification
Ownership
IROBOT CORPORATION
assignment · 338180038
Assignors
GILBERT, DUANE LEIGH, JR, BURSAL, FARUK HALIL, THERRIEN, RICHARD JOSEPH, MORIN, RUSSELL WALTER
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.