US 12,419,478 B2
Cleaner station
Jeonghoon Jeong, Seoul (KR); Jungwan Ryu, Seoul (KR); Dongjae Lee, Seoul (KR); and Ingyu Yang, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to LG Electronics Inc., Seoul (KR)
Filed by LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Aug. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/458,855.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0108778 (KR), filed on Aug. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0061618 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. A47L 9/28 (2006.01); A47L 9/14 (2006.01); A61L 2/10 (2006.01)
CPC A47L 9/2873 (2013.01) [A47L 9/149 (2013.01); A61L 2/10 (2013.01); A61L 2202/11 (2013.01); A61L 2202/122 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cleaner station comprising:
a housing configured to receive a cleaner;
a dust collecting motor that is accommodated in the housing and that is configured to generate a suction force for suctioning a foreign substance out of a dust bin of the cleaner;
a dust storage module configured to, based on the dust collecting motor being operated, receive the foreign substance from the dust bin; and
a sterilization module configured to sterilize the foreign substance received in the dust storage module,
wherein the dust storage module comprises:
a transmission panel configured to transmit sterilization light emitted by the sterilization module,
a dust bag that is configured to, based on the dust collecting motor generating the suction force to accommodate the foreign substance, increase volume, and
a lower plate that is coupled to the transmission panel and that is coupled to an inner upper surface of the dust bag,
wherein the dust storage module is detachably coupled to the housing together with the transmission panel, and
wherein the transmission panel is configured to be detachably coupled to the lower plate.