Station and Cleaning System

The present application is a U.S. national stage of an International Patent Application No. PCT/CN2023/086649, and claims priority to the Chinese Patent Application No. 202211041336.3, filed on Aug. 29, 2022, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety as a part of the present application.

The present disclosure relates to the field of automatic cleaning technologies, and in particular to a station and a cleaning system.

With the continuous development of science and technology, cleaning devices (e.g., floor scrubbers) have been widely used by families, since more time and labor can be saved by using the floor scrubbers than traditional manual cleaning. The floor scrubber usually includes a floor scrubber body and a cleaning seat. A recovery water tank (e.g., a sewage tank), a cleaning fluid tank (e.g., a clean water tank) and a main fan for suction are provided inside the floor scrubber body. The cleaning seat includes a cleaning roller for mopping. A cleaning fluid (e.g., water) is sprayed onto the cleaning roller by means of a built-in water pipe. The cleaning roller rotates at a high speed to mop and wash a floor. The floor scrubber usually needs to be used with a matched station, which can support dock of the floor scrubber for performing some maintenance, such as charging, self-cleaning and drying.

According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a station, configured to support a cleaning device, where the station includes a base, and the base is provided with an accommodating groove and at last one air outlet;

In some embodiments, the at least one air outlet is configured to be able to switch between an open state and a closed state.

In some embodiments, the base is provided with a switch member, and the switch member is configured to switch between a first position and a second position;

In some embodiments the switch member is located in the first position to release the at least one air outlet when the station supports the cleaning device; and

In some embodiments, a first end portion of the switch member extends out from the at least one air outlet when the switch member is located in the second position.

In some embodiments, the station further includes:

In some embodiments, when the station supports the cleaning device, the switchover member is located in the third position to cause the switch member to be located in the first position so as to release the at least one air outlet; and

In some embodiments, a first end portion of the switchover member extends out from a top surface of the base when the switchover member is located in the fourth position, and the first end portion of the switchover member is configured to receive an external force to cause the switchover member to switch from the fourth position to the third position.

In some embodiments, the station further includes:

In some embodiments, the at least one air outlet is farther away from a bottom surface of the base than at least one of a bottom of the first accommodating portion and/or a bottom of the second accommodating portion.

In some embodiments, there are a plurality of air outlets, and the plurality of air outlets are arranged in one or more columns.

In some embodiments, the at least one air outlet is substantially parallel to a bottom surface of the base.

In some embodiments, the base is further provided with at least one of:

In some embodiments, the station further includes:

In some embodiments, the station further includes:

According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a station, configured to support a cleaning device, where the station includes a base, the base being provided with:

In some embodiments, the station further includes:

In some embodiments, a first end portion of the switch member extends out from the at least one air outlet when the switch member is located in the second position.

In some embodiments, the station further includes:

In some embodiments, when the station supports the cleaning device, the switchover member is located in the third position to cause the switch member to be located in the first position so as to release the at least one air outlet; and

In some embodiments, a first end portion of the switchover member extends out from a top surface of the base when the switchover member is located in the fourth position, and the first end portion of the switchover member is configured to receive an external force to cause the switchover member to switch from the fourth position to the third position.

In some embodiments, the station further includes:

In some embodiments, the station further includes:

In some embodiments, the station further includes:

In some embodiments, the station further includes:

In some embodiments, the station further includes:

In some embodiments, the station further includes:

In some embodiments, there are a plurality of air outlets, and the plurality of air outlets are arranged in one or more columns in a first direction.

According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a station, configured to support a cleaning device, where the station includes a base, and the base is provided with:

In some embodiments, the at least one air outlet is configured to be able to switch between an open state and a closed state.

In some embodiments, the base is provided with a switch member configured to switch between a first position and a second position;

In some embodiments, the switch member is located in the first position to release the at least one air outlet when the station supports the cleaning device; and

In some embodiments, a first end portion of the switch member extends out from the at least one air outlet when the switch member is located in the second position.

In some embodiments, the station further includes:

In some embodiments, when the station supports the cleaning device, the switchover member is located in the third position to cause the switch member to be located in the first position; and

In some embodiments, a first end portion of the switchover member extends out from a top surface of the base when the switchover member is located in the fourth position, and the first end portion of the switchover member is configured to receive an external force to cause the switchover member to switch from the fourth position to the third position.

In some embodiments, when the cleaning device returns to the station, the cleaning device presses the first end portion of the switchover member under the action of its own weight to cause the switchover member to switch from the fourth position to the third position.

In some embodiments, the station further includes:

In some embodiments, there are a plurality of air outlets, and the plurality of air outlets are arranged in one or more columns in a first direction.

In some embodiments, the station further includes:

In some embodiments, the station further includes:

According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a cleaning system. The cleaning system includes a cleaning device and the station as described in the foregoing embodiments.

To make the objectives, technical solutions and advantages of the present disclosure clearer, the present disclosure will be further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Apparently, the described embodiments are only some, but not all of the embodiments of the present disclosure. All other embodiments acquired by those of ordinary skills in the art without creative efforts based on the embodiments in the present disclosure are within the protection scope of the present disclosure.

It should also be noted that, the terms “including”, “containing”, or any other variants thereof are intended to cover the nonexclusive inclusion, such that a commodity or apparatus including a series of elements includes not only those elements, but also other elements not listed explicitly or elements inherent to such a commodity or apparatus. Without more limitations, the element defined by the phrase “including a . . . ” does not exclude the existence of other same elements in the commodity or apparatus including the element.

In the field, a cleaning device (e.g., a floor scrubber) usually includes a device body and a cleaning seat. The cleaning device is usually provided with a recovery water tank (e.g., a sewage tank), a cleaning fluid tank (e.g., a clean water tank), and a main fan for suction. The cleaning seat includes a cleaning roller for mopping, and there may be 1, 2 or more cleaning rollers. A cleaning fluid (e.g., water) is distributed by means of a built-in water pipe to the cleaning roller with fluff and/or to a surface to be cleaned. The cleaning roller rotates at a high speed to mop the surface to be cleaned, and at the same time, a negative pressure is formed in a device air duct of the cleaning device by the main fan, such that sewage (which may include solid waste) on the surface to be cleaned is sucked in from a sewage suction port of the cleaning device and pumped into the sewage tank. The sewage recovery path described above forms a part of the device air duct of the cleaning device. The cleaning device is usually returned to the station after use, and the cleaning device is supported by the station, on which the device can be automatically cleaned, the cleaning roller can be cleaned and dried, and charging operations can be performed.

Optional embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

is a schematic structural diagram of a station according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. As shown in, according to some embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a stationconfigured to support a cleaning device. The stationincludes a base, and the baseis provided with an accommodating grooveand an air outlet. The accommodating grooveis configured to accommodate a cleaning roller of the cleaning device, such that self-cleaning can be performed on the cleaning roller of the cleaning device in the accommodating groove. The air outletis configured to output airflow to dry the cleaning roller of the cleaning device. The airflow may be room-temperature airflow or heated airflow. The cleaning roller of the cleaning device, after finishing self-cleaning, needs to be dried, for example, air-dried, thus the heated airflow is more conducive to air-drying the cleaning roller.