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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2020
Applicant:
Bissell Inc., Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Inventors:
Andrew J. Brouwers, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
David VanKampen, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Jeffery Swan, Ovid, MI (US);
Eric D. Buehler, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Assignee:
BISSELL Inc., Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47L 9/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47L 9/2894 (2013.01); A47L 9/2852 (2013.01); A47L 2201/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system providing a barrier for an autonomous floor cleaner includes an artificial barrier generator that radiates one or more infrared emission patterns. An autonomous floor cleaner can be configured to detect an overlapping emission pattern made of partially overlapping encoded infrared emissions. Methods for containing an autonomous floor cleaner within a user-determined boundary are disclosed.