Vorwerk & Co Interholding Gmbh

Hans-Peter Arnold

Roman Ortmann

Gerhard Isenberg

Lorenz Hillen

Andrej Mosebach

Robert Frielinghaus

Christian Holz

Martin Helmich

Niklas Van Teeffelen

Kevin Schmitz

Fabian Vitz

Benjamin Fleczok

Georg Hackert

Uwe Kemker

Harald Windorfer

Thomas Buening

Pia Hahn

Michael Blum

Jutta Schomacher

Frank Starflinger

Carsten Jacobs

Jochen Jentsch

Thorsten Rettich

Maike Brede

Sabine Schweppe

Thomas Braun

Ernst-Uwe Schiffer

Alexandros Zachos

Helmut Schonhoff

Thomas Büning

Uwe Heider

Dirk Schmidt

Thomas Hoffmann

Daniel Fehn

Thomas Erner

Andrea Deckert

Sara Hoffmann

Stephan Dieudonné

Birgit Gawlik

Barbara Degen-Braun

Oliver Büttner

Birol Ceylan

Mirko Kvesic

Dr Lorenz Hillen

Dr Robert Frielinghaus

Mikel Blum

Raphael Liß

Helmut SCHÖNHOFF

Iris Zabback

Birgit Petersen

Ingo Ehring

The invention pertains to a system consisting of a first floor treatment apparatus that is exclusively guided manually within an environment by a user and a second floor treatment apparatus that is exclusively operated automatically, wherein the second floor treatment apparatus is designed for orienting and localizing itself within an environment. The first floor treatment apparatus is designed for detecting a movement path of the first floor treatment apparatus during a movement of the first floor treatment apparatus that is manually guided by a user, as well as for transmitting information on the detected movement path to the second floor treatment apparatus by means of wireless communication. The second floor treatment apparatus is designed for receiving the information and for autonomously traveling along the movement path within the environment based on the received information.

System consisting of floor treatment apparatus that is exclusively guided manually and a floor treatment apparatus that is exclusively operated automatically, as well as method for operating a system of this type

A system has a first floor processing device guided manually by a user within an environment, a second, exclusively automatically operated floor processing device, and a computing device. The first floor processing device has a detection device for detecting a parameter of the environment and/or a surface to be processed, and the second floor processing device has a navigation device for navigating and self-localizing in the environment. In order to enable an optimal floor processing of the environment with as little assistance by the user as possible, the computing device is set up, based on the parameter detected by the detection device of the first floor processing device, to determine whether a specific partial surface area of the surface to be processed is suitable for floor processing by the second floor processing device.

System comprised of a floor processing device guided manually, an exclusively automatically operated floor processing device and a computing device

A system with a first floor processing device and a second floor processing device that is designed to orient and localize itself within an environment based on an area map. The first floor processing device is set up to detect a movement path during a movement by the first floor processing device and transmit information about the detected movement path to the second floor processing device. The second floor processing device has a control and evaluation unit that is set up to analyze the received information and, based upon the movement path detected by the first floor processing device and/or a partial area of the environment not traversed by the movement path, enter a no-go area into the area map which the second floor processing device is not allowed to traverse.

System with a first floor processing device and a second floor processing device as well as a method for operating such a system

The present disclosure relates to a system with a household appliance, a charging station and a plurality of battery units. A control of the system is configured so that a battery unit connected to the charging station can be charged in dependence on a discharge of a battery unit which is connected to the household appliance for operating the household appliance to perform a use operation. The present disclosure further concerns a household appliance and a charging station. It is thereby made possible to perform particularly long use operations with only two battery units or at least a reduced number of battery units without an interruption for charging a battery, and at the same time to achieve the longest possible service life of the battery units.

Battery-powered household appliance and battery charging station

A floor processing device automatically moves within an environment, with a driving attachment, a floor processing unit, an obstacle detection unit, a control unit and a detection unit for detecting device parameters and/or environment parameters control unit is set up to determine an error of the floor processing device based upon the detected parameters that prevents the floor processing device from moving and/or the floor processing device from processing a surface to be processed in such a way that the floor processing device is unable to automatically extricate itself from the error situation. The control unite is set up to analyze the parameters detected by the detection unit with respect to recurring patterns that have a repeatedly encountered combination of an error and at least one chronologically preceding environment and/or device parameter.

Floor processing device that automatically moves within an environment

The invention relates, in the first instance, to an electrically operated food processor () with a cooking vessel () and a lid () for the cooking vessel (), wherein it is possible to lock the lid () in the closed position in relation to the cooking vessel (), wherein, furthermore, the cooking vessel () has a base and a wall () extending upwards from the base, wherein the cooking-vessel wall () merges into a radially projecting cooking-vessel periphery (), wherein, furthermore, the lid () has a periphery () which, in the closed position, coincides with the cooking-vessel periphery (). The invention also relates to a vessel () with a lid (). In order further to improve a food processor and/or a vessel of the type in question, in particular in respect of the lid-locking means, it is proposed that the locking means is formed from a locking part () which is intended for engaging over the lid () and, by rotation about an axis (y), can be displaced from a release position into the locking position and vice versa, wherein the locking part () is of elongate design in the direction in which the axis (y) extends.

Electrically operated food processor with a cooking vessel, and vessel with a lid

Vacuum cleaner with a motor casing

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Hans-Peter Arnold