Minolta Company, Ltd.

Natsuko Waki

Nobukazu Kawagoe

Yuichi Kawakami

Hideaki Nakanishi

Takayuki Hamaguchi

A cleaner comprises a driving unit which moves the cleaner, a cleaner unit which cleans an object to be cleaned, a sensor by which a degree of dirt on the object is detected, and a driving controller which controls the driving unit on the basis of the detected degree of dirt. The cleaner unit further comprises a controller which compares the degrees of dirt detected by the sensor before and after a cleaning operation.

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Jyoyo, Japan

Natsuko Waki