US 12,484,752 B2
Projected display for cleaning station of vacuum robot
Marion Karoline Strauss, Hamminkeln (DE); Carina Uphoff, Bielefeld (DE); Dominik Holz, Bielefeld (DE); Nicolas Stroop, Bielefeld (DE); and Thomas Abel, Lüdenscheid (DE)
Assigned to MIELE & CIE. KG, Guetersloh (DE)
Filed by Miele & Cie. KG, Gütersloh (DE)
Filed on Nov. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/993,098.
Claims priority of application No. 2021/5910 (BE), filed on Nov. 23, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0157503 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. A47L 9/28 (2006.01); A47L 11/40 (2006.01)
CPC A47L 9/2873 (2013.01) [A47L 11/4008 (2013.01); A47L 2201/024 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cleaning station for vacuum robots for cleaning floor surfaces, the cleaning station having a housing, the housing having an electrical interface, the interface being designed to contact a vacuum robot that has approached the cleaning station for charging, the housing having a vacuum, the vacuum being configured to empty a vacuum robot that has approached the cleaning station for emptying, the housing having at least one status display, the status display being designed to display an operating status of the interface and/or the vacuum, wherein the status display comprises at least one projector, the projector configured to project an image of the operating status of the interface and/or of the vacuum onto the vacuum robot which has approached and/or onto the floor surface and/or onto a wall surface adjacent the cleaning station, wherein the housing includes a recessed portion sized and positioned to receive at least part of the vacuum robot, the recessed portion including a downward facing wall, and wherein the projector is located in the downward facing wall and configured to project the image of the operating status onto the vacuum robot received in the recessed portion and/or onto the floor surface.