Irobot Corporation

Yanhan Li

Marcus R Williams

Jason Jeffrey Suchman

Lucile Driscoll

Levi Fox

David Orrin Swett

Jack Zhang

Lien Hoffman

A cleaning bin mountable to an autonomous cleaning robot operable to receive debris from a floor surface includes an inlet positioned between lateral sides of the cleaning bin and an outlet configured to connect to a vacuum assembly, the vacuum assembly operable to direct an airflow from the inlet of the cleaning bin to the outlet of the cleaning bin. The cleaning bin also includes a debris chamber to receive debris from the airflow, an airflow chamber separated from the debris chamber by a prefilter, the prefilter forming at least a portion of a top surface of the debris chamber and at least a portion of a bottom surface of the airflow chamber, and a filter socket configured to receive a filter and provide the airflow to through the filter to the outlet of the cleaning bin, wherein the filter is positioned substantially perpendicular to the prefilter when the filter is positioned in the filter socket.

Washable bin for a robot vacuum cleaner

The present disclosure provides a base station for receiving a mobile cleaning robot including a docking structure. The docking structure includes a horizontal surface and at least two electrical charging contacts, each of the electrical charging contacts having a contact surface positioned above the horizontal surface. The base station also includes a platform that is connectable to the docking structure. The platform includes a raised rear surface having a front portion and a rear portion, two wheel wells located in the front portion of the raised rear surface of the platform, and a plurality of raised surface features forward of the raised rear surface configured to support an underside portion of the mobile cleaning robot.

Wet robot docking station

Evacuation station

Growing community of inventors

Belmont, MA, United States of America

Yanhan Li