Aqua Products, Inc.

Seth M Chilton

Giora Erlich

Joseph Porat

Gloria Erlich

A pool cleaner includes a housing having a front, rear and adjoining side portions and a base plate having a water inlet. A pump is configured to draw water and debris from the pool through the inlet for filtering and discharge filtered water through an outlet. A pair of wheels are coupled proximate the front and rear of the housing, each of which is coupled to an opposing end of an axle, each opposing end of the axle being slidably moveable along the housing in a forward and rearward directional path of the cleaner in response to a steering assembly. An on-board controller includes memory for storing a cleaning program, and a processor electrically coupled to the memory to execute the cleaning program to automatically control the steering assembly to position each end of the axles to steer the cleaner while it is moving in a forward or reverse direction.

Axle controller for automated swimming pool cleaners

An apparatus and method is provided for removing undesired coiling or twisting that has developed in a power cable attached to a robotic swimming pool cleaner during the cleaner's pre-programmed or random movement over the bottom and/or side walls of the pool. A rotatable grip assembly is permanently or removably affixed to the power cable adjacent one or both ends of the power cable that can be disconnected from the power supply or the pool cleaner. The rotatable grip assembly includes one or more bearings, at least a portion of which bearings is fixed with respect to the power cable, and a gripping member that is in contact with the one or more bearings. When the coils or twists are to be removed, the end of the power cable to which the grip assembly is attached is disconnected and a longitudinal or axial force is applied to the gripping member in the direction of the free end, which force is translated by the bearings to a rotational movement of the power cable that passes axially through the annular grip assembly. The axial force is maintained until the rotation of the power cable ceases.

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Caldwell, NJ, United States of America

Seth M Chilton