US 12,433,459 B2
Station for cleaner
Hyunwoo Park, Seoul (KR); Dongjae Lee, Seoul (KR); Yeonghan Jeong, Seoul (KR); Jinhyouk Shin, Seoul (KR); and Sungjun Kim, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to LG Electronics Inc., Seoul (KR)
Appl. No. 18/029,818
Filed by LG Electronics Inc., Seoul (KR)
PCT Filed Oct. 6, 2021, PCT No. PCT/KR2021/013650
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 31, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/075718, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 14, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0130068 (KR), filed on Oct. 8, 2020; and application No. 10-2020-0136739 (KR), filed on Oct. 21, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0371766 A1, Nov. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. A47L 9/00 (2006.01); A47L 9/28 (2006.01)
CPC A47L 9/0009 (2013.01) [A47L 9/28 (2013.01); A47L 9/2873 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cleaner station comprising:
a housing;
a dust collecting motor disposed in the housing and configured to generate a suction force for suctioning dust from a dust bin of a cleaner;
a dust collecting part disposed in the housing and configured to receive the dust from the dust bin;
a coupling part that is disposed in the housing and defines a coupling surface configured to couple to the cleaner; and
a fixing unit configured to fix the cleaner based on the cleaner being coupled to the coupling part,
wherein the fixing unit comprises:
a fixing part motor configured to generate rotational force, and
a fixing member configured to, based on operation of the fixing part motor, move toward the dust bin from an outside of the dust bin, and
wherein the fixing unit is configured to convert the rotational force of the fixing part motor into a linear motion to thereby move the fixing member toward the dust bin.