Zodiac Pool Care Europe

Zodiac Pool Systems LLC

Zodiac Pool Care Europe Sas

Louis Favie

Remi Deloche

Philippe Pichon

Philippe Blanc Tailleur

Thierry Michelon

Simon Duffaut

E Keith McQueen

Arnaud Lancry

Arnaud Besnier

Rémi Deloche

Florent Dallet

Pierre Mazet

Techniques and methods for wirelessly communicating with equipment such as, but not necessarily limited to, automatic swimming pool cleaners (APCs) are detailed. An accelerometer or other sensor on-board an APC may recognize such communications. In some cases, varying operation of a motor or other feedback generator of the APC may provide sonic or other feedback in response to the communications.

Concepts and methods for communicating with equipment such as automatic swimming pool cleaners via accelerometers or other sensors, motors, or both

Automatic swimming pool cleaners (APCs) may include separate chassis and bodies. Such constructions may facilitate assembly and disassembly of certain components of the APCs, with or without using tools. APCs with separate chassis and bodies may enable quick and easy access to motor assemblies of the APC, and bodies of the APCs may be readily interchanged on a common chassis.

Constructions of automatic swimming pool cleaners

Debris filters for automatic swimming pool cleaners may be formed of metal, carbon fibers, or composites more rigid than soft nylon bags. In at least one version, the filter may be made of, or include, steel or stainless steel. Non-uniform sizes, densities, and/or shapes of openings in the filtration material may be created to provide different levels of filtration in a single device.

Debris-filter materials principally for automatic swimming pool cleaners

The invention relates to a swimming-pool cleaning apparatus which comprises: a body; at least one hydraulic circuit for circulating liquid between at least one liquid intake and at least one liquid outlet, and through a filtering device of the cleaning apparatus; a fluid-circulation pump installed in the hydraulic circuit downstream from the filtering device; means for adjusting the pressure inside the hydraulic circuit upstream from the circulation pump, in response to a detected variation of said pressure, said pressure-adjustment means comprising: at least one secondary liquid intake () connected to the hydraulic circuit, upstream from the circulation pump, said at least one secondary liquid intake () being provided with a valve () mounted rotatably movable about an axis of rotation, and with means for driving the valve from an open position to a closed position, said means for driving the valve comprising a float (), the orientation and/or the force of which depend on the orientation of the cleaning apparatus relative to a horizontal plane.

Swimming-pool cleaning apparatus comprising means for adjusting the pressure inside said apparatus

Swimming pool cleaners may operate autonomously within pools and spas. The cleaners need not include any external hoses or cords, and their bodies may be oriented at pool waterlines so as to make their on-board filters readily accessible for removal. The cleaners may dock at docking stations for various purposes, including (but not limited to) for charging any on-board battery and communicating electronically with the docking station or other external equipment.

Autonomous cleaning systems principally for swimming pools

The invention concerns an apparatus for cleaning a surface immersed in a liquid, notably a swimming pool cleaning robot, including a body, said body including lower, upper and lateral walls configured so that said lower wall is intended to be positioned facing the immersed surface over which the apparatus () moves, said upper wall is opposite said lower wall, said lateral walls connect said lower and upper walls, means for moving the body () over said immersed surface. Said apparatus also includes a central chamber (), situated inside the body (), and including a filter basket (), said filter basket () including a filter wall, and an opening () enabling extraction of said filter basket () from the body (). Furthermore, said opening () is on a lateral wall of the body ().

Pool cleaning apparatus with a filtration device that can be extracted via a lateral face

The invention is directed to a swimming pool cleaning device comprising: characterized in that the drive means of the device further include:

Swimming pool cleaning device with obstacle clearing system

The invention relates to a power lead for a swimming pool cleaning robot. Said power lead comprises a rotary connector and a buoyancy means supporting said rotary connector. An upper part of said buoyancy means is a cap shaped to slide under a swimming pool cover, under the effect of a traction exerted by the swimming pool cleaning robot on the buoyancy means through the power lead.

Power lead for swimming pool cleaning robot

Detailed is a device for guiding a cable for linking a submerged robot, in particular a robot for cleaning swimming pools, to the device for controlling and powering same, said guiding device including: a. a coupling including a rotary connector, connected by one side to a first floating portion of the linking cable extending from the control and power device to said coupling and, by the other side, to a second portion of the linking cable extending from said coupling to the submerged robot; b. a floating mounting including: b(i). a float; b(ii). an interface for mechanically linking the rotary connector to said float; and b(iii). a hood extending above the surface when the floating mounting is submerged in a liquid and removably connected to the float; c. in which the mechanical link between the float and the rotary coupling is a ball-and-socket link.

Device for guiding a surface link cable for a submerged robot

The invention relates to a pool cleaning apparatus and a method for controlling such an apparatus comprising a body, a liquid inlet, a liquid outlet, a drive device, a pumping device, a hydraulic circuit between a liquid inlet and a pumping outlet and via a cleaning device, a monitoring device providing electronic signals which are representative of a state of the apparatus, an electronic signal processing unit receiving and analyzing the signals of the monitoring device and controlling the pumping device, wherein, on detection of a removal event of the body from the liquid, the processing unit stops the pumping device after a predetermined emptying time in order to allow active emptying of the hydraulic circuit.

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Colomiers, France

Louis Favie