Patent ID: 9027199
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: A47L

Abstract:
1. A maintenance station comprising: a housing including a platform to support a robot cleaner, the platform including an opening of the maintenance station; a docking guide unit installed at an upper portion of the housing to guide the robot cleaner to dock with the maintenance station; a pump unit having a suction side and a discharge side; a discharge duct provided between the discharge side of the pump unit and the opening of the maintenance station, the discharge duct being configured to blow air into a dust box included in the robot cleaner through an opening of the robot cleaner where a brush unit is installed to cause dust stored in the dust box to be in motion; and a suction duct provided at the suction side of the pump unit and the opening of the maintenance station, the suction duct being configured to apply suction through the opening of the robot cleaner to discharge the dust from the dust box while the dust are caused to be in motion by the air blown into the dust box, wherein the suction duct has a suction port arranged at the opening of the maintenance station, and the discharge duct has a discharge port arranged at the opening of the maintenance station, and the suction port of the suction duct is formed at a region of the opening of the maintenance station in a longitudinal direction of the opening of the maintenance station, and the discharge port of the discharge duct is formed at an end region of the opening of the maintenance station as viewed in the longitudinal direction of the opening of the maintenance station.