Base station for dust catcherTechnical field
The present invention relates to a kind of base stations, for clearing up and/or emptying the cleaner dust-collection room of the first dust catcher, the base stationThe first air inlet fluidly connected is formed with base station dust storage chamber, with the base station dust storage chamber and is formed with the base station dust storage chamberThe first gas outlet fluidly connected, wherein the air inlet and air outlet being capable of air of the fluid technique ground with the first dust catcherChannel is connected, so that enabling includes fan of the dust in the cleaner dust-collection room of the first dust catcher by the first dust catcherIt is delivered in the base station dust storage chamber.
Background technique
The base station of the above-mentioned type is fully known in the prior art.Base station is used especially in combination with dust catcher, and dust catcher hasSo-called filters device, the filters device are not needed to change when being filled up completely by dust, but by purge flow along withDust is cleared up in the opposite cleaning direction of common pumping direction.For this purpose, the cleaner dust-collection room of dust catcher orIt is connected on the fan of base station or is connected on the fan of dust catcher by fluid bypass.
1 243 218 B1 of document EP disclose one kind for example for clearing up and/or emptying the base station of cleaner dust-collection room,Base station has base station dust storage chamber, and dirt and/or dust can be transported in the dust storage chamber of base station from cleaner dust-collection room, wherein byThe fan of dust catcher for clearance itself is formed by suction airstream and deflects by base station dust storage chamber to cleaner dust-collection room,In, dirt can be sucked base station dust storage chamber from cleaner dust-collection room by the thus negative pressure formed in the dust storage chamber of base stationIn.
Although this base station is effectively, base station is only respectively configured to clear up individual dust storage chamber.Furthermore it is limited, only the fan of dust catcher itself is for clearing up.
Summary of the invention
Therefore technical problem to be solved by the present invention lies in provide a kind of base station, multiple vacuum cleaners can connect simultaneouslyOn the base station.Advantageously, the dust catcher herein can also related performance clear up the used of other dust catchers.
In order to solve the technical problem regulation, the base station has can fluidly connect with the base station dust storage chamber theTwo air inlets and the second gas outlet that can be fluidly connected with the base station dust storage chamber, wherein second air inlet and secondGas outlet can be connected to fluid technique with the air duct of the second dust catcher, to make the dust catcher included in the second dust catcherDust in dust storage chamber can be delivered in the base station dust storage chamber by the fan of first dust catcher.
Thus providing one kind, passively base station namely the base station without own fan, the base station can be used for clearing upAnd/or empty dust catcher that is multiple while being connected on the base station.For this purpose, base station, which provides, can be used for multiple dust catchersAir inlet and air outlet, such as the first air inlet for the first dust catcher and the first gas outlet, for the second dust catcherSecond air inlet and the second gas outlet etc..The quantity of air inlet and air outlet is essentially unrestricted.Base station dust storage chamber and suctionControl in this way is fluidly connected herein between the cleaner dust-collection room of dirt device, that is, is accessing the first dust catcher and the second dust catcherIn the case where or by the fan of the first dust catcher itself clear up the cleaner dust-collection room of the first dust catcher or by theThe fan of one dust catcher clears up the cleaner dust-collection room of the second dust catcher.In principle certainly also it is possible that the second dust catcher orThe cleaner dust-collection room of other dust catchers is cleared up by the fan of its own.
In order to clear up the cleaner dust-collection room of the first dust catcher by the fan of the first dust catcher itself, in the first dust catcherIt establishes and fluidly connects between the base station of the type, to make the fan of the first dust catcher by base of first gas outlet from base stationDust storage chamber of standing aspirates air.Here, air flows to base station set from the cleaner dust-collection room of the first dust catcher by the first air inletDirt room.In order to constitute the fluid circulation of closure, cleaner dust-collection room can also be connected on the fan of the first dust catcher.Pass through thisWhat sample was constituted fluidly connects, and the dust being present in the cleaner dust-collection room of the first dust catcher flows to base station dust storage chamber, andIt is filtered out at the dust storage chamber of base station by the filter bag or similar device that are arranged in the dust storage chamber of base station, to make dust from flowing to windIt is removed in the air of fan.Base station dust storage chamber can for example take from base station in the case where filter is fully taken up by dustOut, it and is emptied or clears up.Generally thus no longer need dust catcher itself that there is the filter that can be taken off.But it can incite somebody to actionThe air filter design of dust catcher is extended filtration device.
Suggest herein, first air inlet and the second air inlet are associated with valve, design the valve and make the baseIt stands cleaner dust-collection room of the dust storage chamber selectively with the cleaner dust-collection room of first dust catcher or second dust catcherIt is connected.Thus it can be established as clearing up/emptying necessary to the cleaner dust-collection room of first or second dust catcher by the valveIt fluidly connects.Valve arrangement is arranged on central location namely on fluid technique thus the first air inlet of base station withBetween second air inlet.Advantageously, the valve is designed to disk valve, wherein shape that other structures can also be considered in principleThe valve of formula.The valve selectively or establishes connection or foundation between base station dust storage chamber and the first air inletConnection between base station dust storage chamber and the second air inlet.For example, if the first dust catcher is connected on base station, then valve is maintained atOn one position, at this location, the first air inlet is connected with base station dust storage chamber, and the second air inlet is relative to base station dustRoom isolation disconnects in other words, so that base station dust storage chamber be made only to be connected with the cleaner dust-collection room of the first dust catcher.
It also suggests that, first gas outlet and the second gas outlet are associated with valve, design the valve and make describedThe fan of the one dust catcher selectively dust catcher with the cleaner dust-collection room of first dust catcher or second dust catcherDust storage chamber is connected.Allow such control valve by the design, so that the fan or cleaning first by the first dust catcher are inhaledThe cleaner dust-collection room of dirt device or the cleaner dust-collection room for clearing up the second dust catcher.In order to clear up the dust catcher of the second dust catcherDust storage chamber, such as control is arranged in the valve between the first gas outlet and the second gas outlet in this way, to make the second dust catcherCleaner dust-collection room and the fan formation of the first dust catcher fluidly connect.By the connection, the fan of the first dust catcher will be greyDirt is from the base station dust storage chamber that the cleaner dust-collection room of the second dust catcher is drawn into base station.In the case, the valve may be used alsoTo be disk valve or similar device.
Furthermore provide, the valve is configured to, when the air duct of second dust catcher be connected to described second intoWhen on port and the second gas outlet, the fluid between the air duct and the base station dust storage chamber of open second dust catcher connectsIt connects.According to the design, the user of base station need not manually adjust valve in the range of air inlet and air outlet.In fact,The valve is automatically controlled in the case where the second dust catcher is connected on base station, thus between the second dust catcher and base station orIt is formed and is fluidly connected between the first dust catcher.
According to the rules, the valve can for example be controlled by the mechanism of the partial region of the second dust catcher.InstituteThe partial region for stating the second dust catcher for example can be suction channel end regions, and the suction channel end regions are mechanically madeWith on valve.Here, the valve that the mechanism can both be related in air inlet port regions alsos relate to gas outlet regionIn valve.Such as it is contemplated that disk valve or the only mechanical of similar device press or answer back to.
In addition, the valve can also be connected with the valve positioner of electromechanical, the valve positioner is inhaled according to secondConnection status control valve of the dirt device at the second air inlet and/or the second gas outlet.Valve positioner is herein for example including biographySensor system, the sensing system identify arrangement of second dust catcher on base station.In the case, signal is controlled accordinglyPass to one or more valves.In the case, base station for example can have electrical contact contact, the electrical contact contact identificationThe placement of shape cooperation of the partial region of second dust catcher on base station, to can not only judge that the second dust catcher is accordinglyIt is no to be connected on base station, but also can judge whether the second dust catcher corresponds to and specifically can be aspirated by the base stationDust catcher model.
Similarly, the base station can be designed as between first dust catcher and the base station and/or describedThe fluid circulation of closure is established between one dust catcher and second dust catcher.Thus the fluid circulation of closure is constituted, to make(suction side) fan of first dust catcher with base station dust arrester from base station dust arrester or being connected from first or second dust catcherCleaner dust-collection room aspirate air, the cleaner dust-collection room is additionally attached on (on the pressure side) fan of the first dust catcher.
In order to improve use of the user to base station, as supplementary provisions, base station has a charging equipment, the charging equipment withThe battery of first dust catcher and/or the second dust catcher is connected.It is possible thereby to keep the dust catcher being arranged on base station not only clearIt manages and/or empties, and be also electrically charged simultaneously based on its battery.User need not be such that one or more dust catchers wait more as a result,A upkeep operation successively carried out, but multiple and different upkeep operations can be implemented simultaneously, namely empty and fill to batteryElectricity.
Other than above-mentioned base station, the present invention equally also proposes a kind of cleaner system, with according to the present inventionBase station, the first dust catcher compatible with the base station and the second dust catcher equally compatible with the base station.Dust catcher is logicalIt crosses this mode to be adapted with base station, that is, dust catcher has compatible air communication part.Cleaner system can for example haveThere are the hand held cleaner as the first dust catcher and the dust collector robot as the second dust catcher.Base station is according to above-mentioned implementationMode is designed, to enable the air duct of dust catcher to be connected on the base station dust storage chamber of base station, thus in the first dust suctionThe fluid circulation of closure is formed between device and base station and between the first dust catcher and the second dust catcher.Cleaner system is thusMultiple and different dust catchers can be cleared up, such as only the first dust catcher is connected on base station, so that the only suction of the first dust catcherDirt device dust storage chamber can be emptied by the fan of the first dust catcher, or not only the first dust catcher but also the second dust catcher all connectsIt connects on base station, wherein the cleaner dust-collection room of the second dust catcher is cleaned also by the fan of the first dust catcher.Obviously, it inhalesDirt device system can also have other dust catchers other than the first dust catcher and the second dust catcher.Other dust catchers are at thisEqually it is defined as the second dust catcher in the scope of invention.Obviously, the cleaner dust-collection room of the second dust catcher can also be in principleIt is cleaned by the fan of the second dust catcher itself.This is related to the first dust catcher within the scope of the present invention.
Other than base station and cleaner system, equally also suggest a kind of by cleaner system according to the present invention cleaningAnd/or the method for emptying the cleaner dust-collection room of the second dust catcher, wherein the first air inlet of base station and the connection of the first gas outletOn the air duct of the first dust catcher, and the second air inlet of base station and the second gas outlet are connected to the sky of the second dust catcherOn gas channel, wherein be then included in the dust in the cleaner dust-collection room of the second dust catcher by the fan of the first dust catcherIt is delivered in the dust storage chamber of base station.It is accomplished that according to the method for the present invention, the cleaner dust-collection room of the second dust catcher is by firstThe fan of dust catcher is cleaned.Advantageously, the first dust catcher is the dust catcher of hand-held guiding type, and the second dust catcher is dust catcherRobot, the cleaner dust-collection room of the dust collector robot usually have lesser volume and are thus continually cleaned.
Detailed description of the invention
The present invention more illustrate in detail below by embodiment.In the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1 shows cleaner system according to the present invention, has base station, the first dust catcher and the second dust catcher；
Fig. 2 shows the cleaner systems according to Fig. 1, with the first dust catcher being connected on base station；
Fig. 3 shows the cleaner system according to Fig. 1 and Fig. 2, with the first dust catcher and second being connected on base stationDust catcher；
Fig. 4 shows cutting base station together with the cross section for the first dust catcher being connected on base station；
Fig. 5 shows cutting base station together with the first dust catcher being connected on base station and the cross section of the second dust catcher.
Specific embodiment
Fig. 1 shows the cleaner system 19 being made of base station 1, the first dust catcher 3 and the second dust catcher 4.Described first inhalesDirt device 3 is, for example, the battery type dust catcher of hand-held guiding, and the second dust catcher is, for example, self-propelled dust collector robot.Base station1 has shell, and at least partly region of the first and second dust catchers 3,4 can be shape-ordinatedly contained in the shell, fromAnd generally form the planform as small as possible in the assembled state of cleaner system 19.
Fig. 2 shows the first dust catchers 3 being connected with base station 1, wherein the first dust catcher is shape-ordinatedly contained in base station 1Shell partial region in.
Fig. 3 shows base station 1 together with the first and second dust catchers 3,4 being connected on base station, wherein second dust catcher4 automatically travel below the compatible partial region of base station 1.
According to Fig. 1 to Fig. 3, no matter the first dust catcher 3 or the second dust catcher 4 all have pump orifice 17 and air outlet 18,Wherein, pump orifice 17 is used in the cleaner dust-collection room 5,6 of dust sucking dust catcher 3,4, and air outlet 18 is for will be byThe clean air of air filter 16 is blown out from dust catcher 3,4.
Fig. 4 shows first embodiment according to the present invention, wherein only the first dust catcher 3 is connected on base station 1.SignalProperty cross-sectional view show, base station 1 has base station dust storage chamber 2 and the first air inlet 7 and the first gas outlet 8, first air inletMouth and the first gas outlet are connected on fluid technique with base station dust storage chamber 2 and provide the connector that can be used for the first dust catcher 3.Filter bag is advantageously arranged in base station dust storage chamber 2, the mistake can be collected in into the dust in cleaner dust-collection room 5In filter bag.Other than the first air inlet 7 and the first gas outlet 8, base station 1 also has the second air inlet 12 and the second gas outlet13, second air inlet and the second gas outlet are for being connected to the second dust catcher 4.In the first air inlet 7 and the second air inletIt is respectively arranged valve 14,15 in fluid path between mouth 12 and the first gas outlet 8 and the second gas outlet 13, when the second suctionWhen dirt device 4 is connected on base station 1 and should be cleaned, the valve can be rotated from first position to the second position.
First dust catcher 3 is connected to the fluid road of base station 1 by its pump orifice 17, air outlet 18 and other cleaning hole 21On diameter.In addition, the first dust catcher 3 also has cleaner dust-collection room 5, air filter 16 (being herein extended filtration device) is mounted onIn the cleaner dust-collection room.Cleaner dust-collection room 5 is connected by air duct 9 with the fan 11 of the first dust catcher 3, and describedOne dust catcher is defeated by air filter 16 from pump orifice 17 by air in the normal dust suction operational process of the first dust catcher 3It is sent at fan 11.Here, including that the dust being inhaled into air flows to air filter 16 and is collected in dust catcherIn dust storage chamber 5.The air stream for finally filtering out dust as a result, is discharged to fan 11 and from air outlet 18.
Base station dust storage chamber 2 is also connected by connecting pipeline 22 with air duct 9.It can be thus in base station set by fan 11Negative pressure is formed in dirt room 2.Connecting pipeline 22, which also extends through, makes air outlet 18 and first (when valve 15 is in the position according to Fig. 4)The connected connecting line 23 in gas outlet 8.Here, there is no the companies on fluid technique between connecting pipeline 22 and connecting line 23It connects.
In the cleaning mode of the first dust catcher 3 illustrated, air outlet 18 and the base station 1 of the first dust catcher 3First gas outlet 8 is connected, and the pump orifice 17 of the first dust catcher 3 and the first air inlet 7 formation of base station 1 fluidly connect.Base station 1The second air inlet 12 and the second gas outlet 13 by valve 14,15 close, to prevent surrounding air from by the second air inletMouth 12 and the second gas outlet 13 enter in base station 1 or the first dust catcher 3.
The cleaning of first dust catcher 3 can by user manually start, or the biography that ought be for example arranged on base station 1Sensor (not shown) identifies automatically to be begun a clean up when the first dust catcher 3 has been connected with base station 1.Once fan 11 starts simultaneouslyAnd be arranged in the closing of the suction valve 20 in the air duct 9 of the first dust catcher 3, then air duct 9 interrupts on fluid technique,And fan 11 no longer has to be fluidly connected with the direct of cleaner dust-collection room 5.The air flowing conveyed by fan 11 is passed throughFlow duct of the air outlet 18 and process construction of first dust catcher 3 in base station 1 flows to cleaner dust-collection room 5, wherein emptyGas is from internal input air filter 16, to make air along the direction opposite with the normal flow direction of the first dust catcher 3Flow through air filter.Be gathered in the air volume that dust and dirt outside air filter 16 flowed from inside to outside take andThe first air inlet 7 of base station 1 is flowed to by the pump orifice 17 of the first dust catcher 3.Since (the first air inlet) at this, contain ashThe air of dirt subsequently flows to base station dust storage chamber 2, and filter, such as filter bag being disposed in base station dust storage chamber 2 filter, andThe fan 11 of the first dust catcher 3 is back to from base station dust storage chamber 2 as the air after cleaning.Thus fluid circulation is completed.
Fig. 5 shows the second embodiment of the present invention, wherein no matter the first dust catcher 3 or the second dust catcher 4 are all connected toOn base station 1.First dust catcher 3 according to described in Fig. 4 is connected on base station 1.In addition, the second air inlet 12 and second of base station 1Gas outlet 13 is then connected with the air interface of the second dust catcher 4 (being herein dust collector robot) now.
Second dust catcher 4 equally also has cleaner dust-collection room 6 and fan 11 with air filter 16.Dust catcherDust storage chamber 6 is connected with fan 11 by air duct 10.
Base station 1 can have sensor (not shown), such as contact sensor, and the sensor identifies the second dust catcher 4Presence on the second air inlet 12 and the second gas outlet 13.Valve positioner (not shown) can control valve 14,15, thusIt is connected to the suction channel 10 of the second dust catcher 4 on fluid technique on base station dust storage chamber 2 and the fan 11 of the first dust catcher 3On.Control valve 14 makes to be formed between the second air inlet 12 and base station dust storage chamber 2 and fluidly connect in this way.Correspondingly such control valveDoor 15, fluidly connects to make to be formed between the second gas outlet 13 and the fan 11 of the first dust catcher 3.Advantageously, it is inhaled firstSuction valve 20 inside the air duct 9 of dirt device 3 is equally also automatically closed.
In order to clear up or empty the fan 11 of the cleaner dust-collection room 6 of the second dust catcher 4 and the first dust catcher 3 of starting.It is logicalIt crosses the valve 14,15 correspondingly controlled and suction valve 20, goes out in the fan 11 of the first dust catcher 3, the first dust catcher 3Air port 18, the second gas outlet 13 of base station 1, the air duct 10 of the second dust catcher 4, the second air inlet 12 of base station 1, base station setThe fluid circulation of closure is formed between dirt room 2 and the final fan 11 of first dust catcher 3 again.Thus first dust catcher 36 collective effect of cleaner dust-collection room of fan 11 and the second dust catcher 4, to make the dust catcher collection included in the second dust catcher 4Dust in dirt room 6 is conveyed by the fan 11 of the first dust catcher 3 to the base station dust storage chamber 2 of base station 1, (base station dust at thisRoom) collected by dust can finally be removed.Base station 1 does not need own fan in itself, because either cleaning first is inhaledThe cleaner dust-collection room 5 of dirt device 3 or the cleaner dust-collection room 6 for clearing up the second dust catcher 4 can be used only respectively first and inhaleThe fan 11 of dirt device 3.
Other than the embodiment shown in, other variants are of course also possible that, the variant for example providesOther control modes of valve 14,15,20, the other types of valve 14,15,20 or air inlet 7,12 and gas outlet 8,13 existLocal positioning inside base station 1.In addition, base station 1 can also pass through manual or electromechanical valve positioner support etc..Shown implementationTherefore example should not in any way be construed limitation.
List of numerals
1 base station
2 base station dust storage chambers
3 first dust catchers
4 second dust catchers
5 cleaner dust-collection rooms
6 cleaner dust-collection rooms
7 first air inlets
8 first gas outlets
9 air ducts
10 air ducts
11 fans
12 second air inlets
13 second gas outlets
14 valves
15 valves
16 air filters
17 pump orifices
18 air outlets
19 cleaner systems
20 suction valves
21 cleaning holes
22 connecting pipelines
23 connecting lines.