SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The embodiment of the utility model mainly aims to provide a rolling brush mechanism and a floor washing machine, and aims to solve the technical problem that when a rolling brush in the prior art falls to the ground or collides with an obstacle, impact damage is generated on a connecting rod structure and a rotating joint of the connecting rod structure, which are connected with a main body of the floor washing machine, so that the connection stability of the connecting rod mechanism is poor, and the normal lifting of the rolling brush is influenced.
The technical scheme adopted by the utility model is as follows: the utility model provides a round brush mechanism, including the shell that is used for movable mounting to equipment main part, the shell is equipped with the round brush chamber, installs the round brush in the round brush chamber, and round brush mechanism still includes the lift drive subassembly, and the lift drive subassembly is including suspending rope and driving piece in midair, and the driving piece is used for installing to equipment main part, and the driving piece is connected with the first end drive that suspends the rope in midair, and the second end that suspends the rope in midair hangs with the shell and is connected, thereby the driving piece drive suspend in midair rope removal and drive the shell and go up and down.
In some embodiments, a suspension loop is provided at the middle of the housing in the axial direction of the roller brush, and the suspension cord is connected to the suspension loop.
In some embodiments, the lifting drive assembly further comprises a pulley for mounting to the apparatus body, the housing and the drive member are disposed at a height lower than the pulley, and the suspension cord is wound around the pulley.
In some embodiments, the lifting drive assembly further comprises a guide piece and a sliding block slidably mounted on the guide piece, the guide piece is used for being mounted on the device main body, the output end of the driving piece and the first end of the suspension rope are both connected with the sliding block, the setting height of the sliding block is lower than that of the pulley, and the driving piece drives the sliding block to move up and down so as to pull the suspension rope to drive the shell to lift.
In some embodiments, the driving member includes a motor and a gear, the sliding block is provided with a rack, the gear is sleeved on a rotating shaft of the motor, and the gear is meshed with the rack.
In some embodiments, the lifting driving assembly comprises two guide members arranged in parallel at intervals, two opposite ends of the sliding block are respectively connected with the two guide members, and the rack is arranged in the middle of the sliding block.
In some embodiments, the suspension cord is a flexible steel cord.
In some embodiments, at least one connecting portion is respectively arranged at two ends of the housing along the length direction, the connecting portions are rotatably connected with support rods, and ends of the support rods, which are far away from the connecting portions, are used for being connected with the device main body.
In some embodiments, two ends of the housing along the length direction are respectively rotatably provided with an auxiliary roller, the auxiliary roller is arranged on one side of the housing facing the driving part, and the lowest point of the auxiliary roller is not lower than the lowest point of the rolling brush.
One or more technical solutions in the rolling brush mechanism provided by the embodiment of the present invention have at least one of the following technical effects: the rolling brush mechanism of the utility model suspends the shell provided with the rolling brush by one end of the suspension rope, when in use, the shell is movably arranged on an equipment body such as a floor washing machine body, and the other end of the suspension rope is connected with the driving piece arranged on the equipment body, the driving piece drives the suspension rope to move, and the suspension rope pulls the shell to ascend or descend relative to the surface to be cleaned, thereby leading the shell and the rolling brush to ascend and descend together. So, the round brush hangs through the flexible rope that suspends in midair and connects in the equipment main part, the round brush falls to the ground or receives when assaulting with barrier collision contact, can cushion through suspending rope shrinkage deformation in midair, form the flexonics between the shell of installing the round brush promptly and the equipment main part, shell and round brush can float relative equipment main part when contacting the barrier, thereby reduce the influence of the impact that round brush or shell received to suspending rope and shell hookup point, improve the shell and suspend rope and equipment main part's stability of being connected in midair, the round brush lift movement is more reliable and more stable.
The other technical scheme of the utility model is as follows: the utility model provides a floor cleaning machine, including floor cleaning machine main part and foretell round brush mechanism, shell movable mounting is in floor cleaning machine main part, and the lifting drive subassembly drive suspends rope removal in midair and drives the shell and goes up and down.
One or more technical schemes in the floor washing machine provided by the embodiment of the utility model at least have one of the following technical effects: the application discloses floor cleaning machine, through using foretell round brush mechanism, shell and round brush hang in the floor cleaning machine main part through hanging in midair the rope, install the shell of round brush and floor cleaning machine main part flexonics, shell and round brush can float in the floor cleaning machine main part relatively when contacting the barrier, thereby reduce the impact that round brush or shell received to hanging in midair the rope and the influence of shell hookup point, round brush lift movement is reliable and stable, equipment failure rate reduces, overhaul and maintenance frequency reduces, the service life extension, user experience can effectively promote.
Detailed Description
In order to make the technical problems, technical solutions and advantageous effects to be solved by the present invention more clearly apparent, the present invention is further described in detail below with reference to fig. 1 to 4 and the embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the utility model and are not intended to limit the utility model.
It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to" or "disposed on" another element, it can be directly on the other element or be indirectly on the other element. When an element is referred to as being "connected to" another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or be indirectly connected to the other element.
It will be understood that the terms "length," "width," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," and the like, as used herein, refer to an orientation or positional relationship indicated in the drawings, which is solely for the purpose of facilitating the description and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and is therefore not to be construed as limiting the utility model.
Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless specifically defined otherwise.
Reference in the specification to "one embodiment," "some embodiments," or "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in one or more embodiments of the utility model. Thus, appearances of the phrases "in one embodiment," "in some embodiments," "in other embodiments," or the like, in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, but rather "one or more but not all embodiments" unless specifically stated otherwise. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments.
As shown in fig. 1 to 4, an embodiment of the present invention provides a brush mechanism adapted to be mounted to a main body of a floor cleaning apparatus, such as a main body of a floor cleaning machine, for washing a surface to be cleaned (such as a floor surface, etc.) with abrush 20 during movement of the main body of the floor cleaning machine.
Specifically, as shown in fig. 1 to 3, the rolling brush mechanism of the present embodiment includes ahousing 10 and a rollingbrush 20, thehousing 10 is provided with a mounting cavity in a rectangular opening shape adapted to the rollingbrush 20, the rollingbrush 20 is rotatably mounted in the mounting cavity, and thehousing 10 is used for being movably mounted to an apparatus main body (not shown) such as a floor cleaning machine main body. In the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 1 and 3, at least one connectingportion 13 is respectively disposed at two opposite ends of thehousing 10 along a length direction of the housing 10 (i.e., along an axial direction of the rollingbrush 20 shown by an arrow F1 in fig. 1), astay 14 is rotatably connected to the connectingportion 13, specifically, thestay 14 is pivotally connected to the connectingportion 13 through a first connectingshaft 131, the first connectingshaft 131 is parallel to the axial direction of the rollingbrush 20, and one end of thestay 14 away from the connectingportion 13 is used for connecting to the apparatus main body, so that when the rolling brush mechanism of the present embodiment is installed, thestay 14 is connected to the apparatus main body, and thestay 14 is rotatably connected to the connectingportion 13 on thehousing 10, so that thehousing 10 rotates relative to the apparatus main body with the connecting node as a fulcrum, and thehousing 10 can be lifted and lowered along a vertical direction (i.e., a direction shown by an arrow F2 in fig. 1).
In an embodiment, a mountingportion 15 may be provided on the apparatus main body, so that thestay 14 is pivotally connected to the mountingportion 15 through a second connectingshaft 101, and the second connectingshaft 101 is disposed parallel to the first connectingshaft 131, so that the position where thestay 14 is connected to the apparatus main body can also be pivoted relative to the apparatus main body, thereby further improving the flexibility of the rotation of thecasing 10 relative to the apparatus main body.
Of course, in some other embodiments, thehousing 10 may be movably connected to the device body in other manners, such as sliding connection.
Further, as shown in fig. 1, 2 and 4, in the present embodiment, the above-mentioned rolling brush mechanism further includes a liftingdrive assembly 30 for connecting thehousing 10 and the apparatus main body so as to drive thehousing 10 to move up and down in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the rolling brush 20 (i.e., a direction indicated by an arrow F2 in fig. 1) with respect to the apparatus main body. Thelifting driving assembly 30 includes asuspension rope 31 and a drivingmember 32, the drivingmember 32 is used for being mounted to the device main body, the drivingmember 32 is connected to a first end of thesuspension rope 31, a second end of thesuspension rope 31 is connected to thehousing 10 in a hanging manner, and the drivingmember 32 drives thesuspension rope 31 to move so as to drive thehousing 10 to lift.
During the practical use, install drivingpiece 32 to the equipment main part, make theshell 10 of hanging inmidair 31's second end, drivingpiece 32 drive hanging inmidair 31 upwardmovement pulling shell 10 rotates for equipment main part to makeshell 10 andround brush 20 upwards lifting, thereby makeround brush 20 wait to clean the face lifting relatively, on the contrary, need put downround brush 20 to with when waiting to clean the face contact, drivingpiece 32 drive hanging inmidair 31 downward movement makeshell 10 andround brush 20 fall back under self action of gravity to with wait to clean the face contact can. Thus, the operation of the drivingmember 32 is controlled to control thehousing 10 and the rollingbrush 20 to complete the lifting operation, and the operation is simple and flexible.
According to the rolling brush mechanism provided by the embodiment of the utility model, theshell 10 provided with the rollingbrush 20 is suspended through one end of thesuspension rope 31, when the rolling brush mechanism is used, theshell 10 is movably arranged on an equipment body such as a floor washing machine body, the other end of thesuspension rope 31 is connected with the drivingpiece 32 arranged on the equipment body, the drivingpiece 32 drives thesuspension rope 31 to move, and thesuspension rope 31 pulls theshell 10 to ascend or descend relative to a surface to be cleaned, so that theshell 10 and the rollingbrush 20 ascend and descend together. So, theround brush 20 hangs throughflexible suspension rope 31 and connects in the equipment main part, theround brush 20 falls to the ground or when receiving the impact with the barrier collision contact, can cushion throughsuspension rope 31 shrink deformation, form flexible connection between theshell 10 of installing theround brush 20 promptly and the equipment main part,shell 10 andround brush 20 can float relative equipment main part when contacting the barrier, thereby reduce the influence of the impact that theround brush 20 or theshell 10 receive tosuspension rope 31 andshell 10 hookup point, improve the stability of being connected ofshell 10 andsuspension rope 31 and equipment main part,round brush 20 goes up and down to move more reliable and more stable.
In a specific embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, 2 and 4, thesuspension rope 31 is a flexible steel wire rope, which has a strong strength, is not easily broken after long-term use, has a higher reliability in use, and has a certain deformation capability, so that a flexible connection between thehousing 10 and the device body is ensured, and thesuspension rope 31 can be contracted and deformed to buffer when the rollingbrush 20 falls to the ground or is in collision contact with an obstacle and is impacted.
Of course, in other embodiments, thesuspension rope 31 may be made of other flexible ropes with certain strength, such as fiber ropes, rubber ropes, etc., and the material of thesuspension rope 31 is not limited herein.
In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2 and 3, thehousing 10 is further connected withauxiliary rollers 16 at both ends in the length direction, and theauxiliary rollers 16 are disposed at a side of thehousing 10 facing the drivingmember 32, that is, facing the main body of the apparatus, specifically, thehousing 10 is convexly provided with mountingportions 15 at both ends, theauxiliary rollers 16 are rotatably mounted on the mountingportions 15 byrollers 161, therollers 161 are disposed parallel to the axial direction of theroller brush 20, and the lowest point of theauxiliary rollers 16 and the lowest point of theroller brush 20 are located on the same plane, or the lowest point of theauxiliary rollers 16 may be slightly higher than the lowest point of theroller brush 20. The lowest point of the rollingbrush 20 is a contact point of the rollingbrush 20 and the surface to be cleaned when the rollingbrush 20 performs the brushing action normally, and correspondingly, the lowest point of theauxiliary roller 16 is a contact point of theauxiliary roller 16 and the surface to be cleaned when the rollingbrush 20 performs the brushing action normally.
Thus, when the rollingbrush 20 works normally, theauxiliary roller 16 does not interfere with the normal contact brushing of the rollingbrush 20, and when thehousing 10 is lifted by thesuspension rope 31 and lifted upwards, thehousing 10 pivots relative to the apparatus body about the first connectingshaft 131, and when thehousing 10 rotates to a certain angle, theauxiliary roller 16 contacts with the surface to be cleaned, and serves as a walking roller to ensure that the apparatus body can normally roll on the surface to be cleaned.
In other embodiments, as shown in fig. 2 and 3, the middle of thehousing 10 is provided with a hanginglug 12 along the axial direction of the roller brush 20 (i.e., along the direction of arrow F1 in fig. 1), that is, the hanginglug 12 is provided at a position between the two connectingportions 13 of thehousing 10, and thesuspension cord 31 is connected to the hanginglug 12, that is, thesuspension cord 31 is connected to the middle of thehousing 10, so that thehousing 10 is more balanced in stress.
In the embodiment, a hanginglug 12 is provided at the middle of thecasing 10, and thelifting driving assembly 30 includes a hangingrope 31, and the hangingrope 31 is connected to the hanginglug 12 to hang and connect thecasing 10 to the apparatus main body.
It is understood that in other embodiments, a plurality ofhangers 12 may be disposed at intervals in the middle of thehousing 10, and thelifting driving assembly 30 is disposed with a plurality ofsuspension ropes 31 connected to the plurality ofhangers 12 in a one-to-one correspondence manner, that is, a multi-point suspension is formed on thehousing 10, thehousing 10 is suspended by multiple points of stress, the stress is more uniform, and the lifting is more stable and reliable.
In other embodiments, as shown in fig. 1, 2 and 4, thelifting driving assembly 30 further includes apulley 33, thepulley 33 is mounted on the main body of the apparatus through thepulley 33, thesuspension rope 31 is wound around thepulley 33, and thehousing 10 and the drivingmember 32 are both disposed at a lower height than thepulley 33. The two ends of thesuspension rope 31 are connected with thehousing 10 and the drivingelement 32 by bypassing thepulley 33, so that the installation height of the drivingelement 32 on the equipment main body can be reduced, the installation height of the drivingelement 32 is not required to be higher than that of thehousing 10, the suspension connection of thehousing 10 can also be realized, in addition, thepulley 33 is matched with thesuspension rope 31 to suspend thehousing 10, the acting force for pulling up and lifting thehousing 10 can be saved, and the power consumption of the drivingelement 32 is reduced.
In a specific embodiment, onepulley 33 may be provided for thesuspension rope 31 to wind, or twopulleys 33 may be provided for thesuspension rope 31 to wind, and the twopulleys 33 may be arranged at equal height intervals, or at intervals of one higher and one lower, only one of thepulleys 33 needs to be close to thehousing 10, and theother pulley 33 is close to the drivingmember 32.
As shown in fig. 2 and 4, in the present embodiment, the twopulleys 33 are arranged at intervals in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the roll brush 20 (the direction indicated by an arrow F3 in fig. 1).
In other embodiments, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2 and fig. 4, thelifting driving assembly 30 further includes aguide 34 and a slidingblock 35 slidably mounted on theguide 34, theguide 34 is used for being mounted to the main body of the apparatus, in this embodiment, theguide 34 is a rod, theguide 34 is mounted on the main body of the apparatus in a vertical direction (in a direction shown by an arrow F2 in fig. 1), and the slidingblock 35 is sleeved on the rod and can move up and down along theguide 34. Further, the output end of the drivingelement 32 and the first end of thesuspension rope 31 are both connected to the slidingblock 35, and the setting height of the slidingblock 35 is lower than thepulley 33, so that the drivingelement 32 drives the slidingblock 35 to move up and down relative to the guidingelement 34, and thesuspension rope 31 can be pulled to drive thehousing 10 to lift.
In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 2 and 4, thelifting driving assembly 30 includes two guidingmembers 34 disposed in parallel and spaced apart from each other, opposite ends of a slidingblock 35 are respectively connected to the two guidingmembers 34, and the drivingmember 32 and thesuspension rope 31 are both connected to the slidingblock 35 at a position between the two guidingmembers 34. So, twoguide 34 can effectively supportslider 35 on the one hand, and on the other hand,slider 35 middle part atress both ends and the cooperation ofguide 34 are led, remove more steadily smoothly.
In other embodiments, as shown in fig. 2 and 4, the drivingmember 32 includes amotor 321 and agear 322, the slidingblock 35 is provided with arack 351 extending along the vertical direction, thegear 322 is sleeved on the rotating shaft of themotor 321, and thegear 322 is engaged with therack 351. Themotor 321 starts thedriving gear 322 to rotate forward, so that the slidingblock 35 moves downward relative to theguide 34, and thesuspension rope 31 is driven to pull thehousing 10 and the rollingbrush 20 to lift upward; on the contrary, theclick driving gear 322 rotates reversely, theslider 35 moves upward relative to the positioning, and thehousing 10 and the rollingbrush 20 fall back under the self-gravity. The structure is simple, and the lifting operation of theshell 10 is simple.
In the present embodiment, as shown in fig. 2 and 4, therack gear 351 is provided at a middle position of theslider 35 between the twoguide members 34.
In the rolling brush mechanism provided by each of the above embodiments of the present invention, the rolling brush can be suspended and connected to the device main body by the flexible suspension rope, when the rolling brush falls to the ground or collides with an obstacle and is impacted, the rolling brush can be buffered by the contraction and deformation of the suspension rope, that is, the housing on which the rolling brush is mounted and the device main body are flexibly connected to each other, and the housing and the rolling brush can float relative to the device main body when contacting the obstacle, so that the influence of the impact on the rolling brush or the housing on the connection point between the suspension rope and the housing is reduced, the connection stability between the housing and the suspension rope and the device main body is improved, and the lifting and the moving of the rolling brush are more stable and reliable.
Another embodiment of the present invention further provides a floor washing machine (not shown), which includes a floor washing machine main body and the above-mentioned rolling brush mechanism, wherein the housing is movably installed in the floor washing machine main body, and the lifting driving assembly drives the suspension rope to move and drives the housing to lift.
The floor cleaning machine that this embodiment provided, through using foretell round brush mechanism, shell and round brush hang in the floor cleaning machine main part through hanging in midair the rope, install the shell of round brush and floor cleaning machine main part flexonics, shell and round brush can float in the relative floor cleaning machine main part when contacting the barrier, thereby reduce the impact that round brush or shell received to hanging in midair the influence of rope and shell hookup point, round brush lift movement is reliable and stable, equipment failure rate reduces, overhaul and maintenance frequency reduces, the service life extension, user experience can effectively promote.
In addition, the floor washing machine also has other technical effects of the rolling brush mechanism provided by the above embodiments, and the detailed description is omitted here.
In an embodiment, the floor cleaning machine may be a floor cleaning robot, a floor mopping robot, a sweeping and mopping integrated robot, a handheld floor cleaning machine, or the like.
The above description is intended to be illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the present invention and should not be taken as limiting the utility model, but rather, the intention is to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the utility model.