US 12,433,466 B2
Cleaning device and cleaner nozzle designed to be used in a cleaning device
Bastiaan Johannes De Wit, Eindhoven (NL); Anke Rieka Meulendijks, Eindhoven (NL); Jamila Midhat, Eindhoven (NL); Orhan Kahya, Eindhoven (NL); Chengang Cao, Eindhoven (NL); Rinse Hendrik Bosma, Eindhoven (NL); Fermín Espín Franco, Eindhoven (NL); Robert Friso Burgers, Eindhoven (NL); Albert Al-Shorachi, Eindhoven (NL); and Arjan Sander Vonk, Eindhoven (NL)
Assigned to VERSUNI HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 17/917,228
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Mar. 29, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/058195
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 5, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/204584, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 14, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20168229 (EP), filed on Apr. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0157510 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. A47L 11/40 (2006.01); A47L 11/30 (2006.01)
CPC A47L 11/4058 (2013.01) [A47L 11/302 (2013.01); A47L 11/4008 (2013.01); A47L 11/4072 (2013.01); A47L 11/4088 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cleaning device designed to clean a surface, comprising:
a cleaner nozzle that is configured to be put in an operational position on the surface to be cleaned in which the cleaner nozzle faces the surface and performs a cleaning action on the surface, wherein the cleaner nozzle accommodates at least one brush including flexible brush elements having tip portions for contacting the surface to be cleaned in the operational position of the cleaner nozzle on the surface, and wherein the at least one brush is rotatable about a brush rotation axis, and
a force-actuable mechanism that is arranged in the cleaning device to be actuable under the influence of a change of a user force on the cleaning device acting to press the cleaner nozzle against the surface to be cleaned when the cleaner nozzle is in the operational position on the surface, and that is functional to cause a change of a value of at least one parameter of operation of the cleaning device.