Patent ID: 9265396
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: A47L,B08B,Y10S

Claim Text:
1. An autonomous floor cleaning robot, comprising: a robot body; a controller supported by the robot body; a drive supporting the robot body to maneuver the robot across a floor surface in response to commands from the controller; a pad holder attached to an underside of the robot body and to hold a removable cleaning pad during operation of the cleaning robot, the removable cleaning pad comprising a mounting plate and a mounting surface, the mounting plate being attached to the mounting surface; and a pad sensor to sense a feature on the removable cleaning pad and to generate a signal based on the feature, the feature defined at least in part by a cutout on the mounting plate; wherein the mounting plate enables the pad sensor to detect the feature, and wherein the controller is responsive to the signal generated by the pad sensor to perform operations comprising: