US 11,864,718 B2
Cleaning device having vacuum cleaner and docking station and method of controlling the same
Yoonkyung Cho, Suwon-si (KR); Seehyun Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Jongsoon Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Gihyeong Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Seongu Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Ahyoung Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Jaeshik Jeong, Suwon-si (KR); and Seungryong Cha, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on May 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/828,742.
Application 17/828,742 is a continuation of application No. 17/315,905, filed on May 10, 2021, granted, now 11,357,374.
Application 17/315,905 is a continuation of application No. 17/014,384, filed on Sep. 8, 2020, granted, now 11,503,969.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0110380 (KR), filed on Sep. 5, 2019; and application No. 10-2020-0070265 (KR), filed on Jun. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0287524 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. A47L 9/14 (2006.01); A47L 9/28 (2006.01)
CPC A47L 9/149 (2013.01) [A47L 9/2842 (2013.01); A47L 9/2873 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cleaning device comprising:
a vacuum cleaner including a dust collecting container; and
a dust collecting station to which the dust collecting container is removably connected,
wherein the dust collecting station comprises:
a suction device comprising a fan and a motor for rotating the fan, and configured to produce a suction airflow moving along a suction flow path from the dust collecting container to the suction device,
a dust bag configured to collect foreign substances that are moved by the suction airflow,
a flow path control device comprising a plate provided in the suction flow path, and configured to open or close the suction flow path, and
at least one processor configured to:
control the flow path control device to move a position of the plate to open the suction flow path based on a connection of the dust collecting container to the dust collecting station while the dust collecting station operates in an automatic mode,
control the suction device to produce the suction airflow based on the suction flow path's opening,
control the suction device to stop operating based on a predetermined operation time elapsing after initiation of the control of the suction device to produce the suction airflow, and
control the flow path control device to move the position of the plate to close the suction flow path after initiation of the control of the suction device to stop operating.