US 12,329,337 B2
Robot cleaning system, base station, and control method
Mingjian Xie, Jiangsu (CN); Shisong Zhang, Jiangsu (CN); Hongbing Wu, Jiangsu (CN); Jianqiang Xu, Jiangsu (CN); Hongfeng Zhong, Jiangsu (CN); Ji Li, Jiangsu (CN); Yue Zhen, Jiangsu (CN); Biao Wang, Jiangsu (CN); and Yuanzhong Ran, Jiangsu (CN)
Assigned to Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., LTD., Suzhou (CN)
Appl. No. 17/417,086
Filed by Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd, Jiangsu (CN)
PCT Filed Dec. 20, 2019, PCT No. PCT/CN2019/127143
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 21, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/125774, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 25, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 201811572153.8 (CN), filed on Dec. 21, 2018; application No. 201910251091.9 (CN), filed on Mar. 29, 2019; application No. 201910916134.0 (CN), filed on Sep. 26, 2019; application No. 201921620374.8 (CN), filed on Sep. 26, 2019; application No. 201910971595.8 (CN), filed on Oct. 14, 2019; and application No. 201921712972.8 (CN), filed on Oct. 14, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0142444 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. A47L 11/40 (2006.01); A47L 11/28 (2006.01)
CPC A47L 11/4091 (2013.01) [A47L 11/28 (2013.01); A47L 11/4011 (2013.01); A47L 11/4036 (2013.01); A47L 2201/028 (2013.01); A47L 2201/04 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A base station comprising:
an operating position for a cleaning robot to dock to replace a first mopping module of the cleaning robot or mount a second mopping module of the cleaning robot;
a storage module configured to store at least one of the first mopping module or the second mopping module, wherein the storage module is located above the operating position at least when the first mopping module is separated from the cleaning robot, when the second mopping module is mounted to the cleaning robot, or when the first mopping module is separate from the cleaning robot and the second mopping module is mounted to the cleaning robot; and
a transfer module configured to transfer at least one of the first mopping module or the second mopping module between the storage module and the operating position.