US 11,717,121 B2
Robotic vacuum cleaner with at least one fixed side cleaning member
Laurent Delair, Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray (FR); and Mickael Boillet, Martainville-Epreville (FR)
Assigned to SEB S.A.
Filed by SEB S.A., Ecully (FR)
Filed on Feb. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/674,154.
Claims priority of application No. 2101608 (FR), filed on Feb. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0257073 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. A47L 9/06 (2006.01); A47L 9/04 (2006.01)
CPC A47L 9/062 (2013.01) [A47L 9/0477 (2013.01); A47L 9/0488 (2013.01); A47L 2201/00 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A robotic vacuum cleaner comprising:
a main body having an underside configured to face a surface to be cleaned, a suction opening that opens into the underside of the main body and extending transversely to a main direction of travel of the robotic vacuum cleaner, and a receiving housing fluidly connected to the suction opening,
a rotating cleaning brush rotatably mounted in the receiving housing about an axis of rotation extending transversely to the main direction of travel of the robotic vacuum cleaner, and
a first side cleaning member mounted on a front part of the main body and located adjacent a first side edge of the main body, the first side cleaning member having a first cleaning part which is flexible,
wherein the first side cleaning member is attached at a fixed location with respect to the main body, and wherein the first cleaning part is configured to direct waste, which comes into contact with the first cleaning part when the robotic vacuum cleaner moves in the main direction of travel, toward the suction opening,
wherein the first cleaning part has an inclination, with respect to a horizontal direction, that varies along the first cleaning part.