Sharkninja Operating LLC

Ming Yao

Jason Boyd Thorne

Charles Stewart Brunner

Isaku Douglas Kamada

Heliang Chen

William Wang

Rain Gu

Andre David Brown

Ognjen Vrdoljak

Kai Xu

David Stephen Clare

Frederick Karl Hopke

Daniel R Der Marderosian

Dmitry Layevsky

Gordon Howes

Catriona C A Sutter

Pu Zhou

Melinda L Liggett

Joshua Thomas Richards

Mingshun Su

Charles Fiebig

Fariha Ahmed

Devin Feng

Peter Hutchinson

David T Barker

Junping Li

Yonggang Li

Andrew Keene

Lei Liu

Zhengzhou Lu

Jibing Gu

Mingliang Qin

Hui Zou

Tao Wang

Queena Tan

Joshua Redman

Terry Tan

Jack Qin

Dan Gutierrez

Kennedy Huang

Systems are provided for a hair dryer. A hair drying system can include a plurality of different types of accessories and a hair dryer having an output end configured to supply air. The output end can include an attachment assembly having a retaining mechanism configured to engage each of the plurality of different types of accessories to retain a selected one of the different types of accessories on the hair dryer, an alignment mechanism configured to align one of the accessories in a predetermined rotational orientation relative to the output end, and an accessory detection assembly configured to move to one of a plurality of predetermined structural configurations based on the type of accessory attached to the hair dryer. The hair dryer can further include a controller configured to control the supply of air through the output end in dependence on the predetermined structural configuration of the accessory detection assembly.

Smart hair dryer accessory detection

A steam cleaning apparatus may include a wand, a cleaning assembly coupled to the wand, the cleaning assembly including a steam generator, and a cleaning head pivotally coupled to the wand. The cleaning head may include a plurality of cleaning pads, a pad motor having a motor driveshaft, a drivetrain configured to transfer rotational motion of the motor driveshaft to each of the plurality of cleaning pads such that a rotation of the motor driveshaft causes a corresponding rotation in each of the plurality of cleaning pads, and a temperature sensor positioned proximate to the drivetrain, the temperature sensor being configured to measure a temperature of the drivetrain.

Steam cleaning apparatus

A wheel assembly for a robotic cleaner may include a frame, a moveable arm pivotally coupled to the frame, a driven wheel rotatably coupled to the moveable arm such that the driven wheel pivots with the moveable arm, and a biasing mechanism configured to urge the driven wheel towards an extended position, the biasing mechanism being coupled to the frame and spaced apart from the moveable arm.

Wheel assembly for robotic cleaner and robotic cleaner having the same

A robotic vacuum cleaner may include a housing, a displaceable bumper, an emitter/detector pair, and at least one divider. The displaceable bumper may be moveably coupled to the housing and may be configured to be displaced along at least one axis. The emitter/detector pair may have an emitter and a detector, wherein the emitter is configured to emit light through at least a portion of the displaceable bumper. The at least one divider may be disposed between the emitter and the detector of the emitter/detector pair.

Robotic vacuum cleaner

A vacuum cleaner can include an upright section, a surface cleaning head coupled to the upright section, and at least one wheel coupled to the surface cleaning head. The at least one wheel can include a hub, a rim, and an absorber. The absorber can extend between the hub and the rim. The absorber can be configured to deform before the rim experiences substantial deformation. A deformation limiter can be provided that is configured to limit the deformation in the absorber.

Wheels having shock absorbing characteristics and a surface treatment apparatus using the same

A vacuum cleaner may include a surface cleaning head, a wand pivotally coupled to the surface cleaning head, and a rotatable canister mount. The rotatable canister mount may include a support through which at least a portion of the wand extends such that the canister mount rotates relative to the wand in response to the wand pivoting.

Upright vacuum cleaner including main body moving independently of wand to reduce movement of main body center of gravity

A robotic cleaning apparatus can include a body and at least one antenna extending from a periphery of the body. The at least one antenna can be configured to rotate about an axis that extends substantially parallel to a surface to be cleaned.

Robotic vacuum

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Ming Yao