System comprised of a floor processing device guided manually, an exclusively automatically operated floor processing device and a computing device

US11460859B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• VORWERK & CO. INTERHOLDING GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Hans-Peter Arnold · Sarnen, CH
• Thomas Buening · Bochum, DE
• Benjamin Fleczok · Essen, DE
• Robert Frielinghaus · Bochum, DE
• Martin Helmich · Duisburg, DE
• Lorenz Hillen · Wuppertal, DE
• Christian Holz · Dortmund, DE
• Gerhard Isenberg · Cologne, DE
• Andrej Mosebach · Bochum, DE
• Roman Ortmann · Gerstungen, DE
• Kevin Schmitz · Goldkronach, DE
• Fabian Vitz · Wuppertal, DE
• Niklas Van Teeffelen · Dressendorf, DE
• Uwe Kemker · Wuppertal, DE
• Georg Hackert · Bochum, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 1, 2020
• Grant date: Oct 4, 2022
• Expiry date: Mar 20, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A47L2201/00
• WIPO field: Furniture, games
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A system has a first floor processing device guided manually by a user within an environment, a second, exclusively automatically operated floor processing device, and a computing device. The first floor processing device has a detection device for detecting a parameter of the environment and/or a surface to be processed, and the second floor processing device has a navigation device for navigating and self-localizing in the environment. In order to enable an optimal floor processing of the environment with as little assistance by the user as possible, the computing device is set up, based on the parameter detected by the detection device of the first floor processing device, to determine whether a specific partial surface area of the surface to be processed is suitable for floor processing by the second floor processing device.