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| May 29,
2003 |
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Hitachi home & life solution
company
Hitachi Ltd. |
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| The home cleaning robot of the
autonomous movement type (experimental machine) is developed.
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| *** -In a compact body of
250mm*1 in a minimum in the world diameter,
achievement <the high collection dust function and the
automatic map generation running>-.
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| Home cleaning robot of autonomous movement
type (experimental machine) |
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Hitachi
home & life solution company (The director
president:瀬端久仁雄(unknown word) and Hitachi H&L
henceforth), the Hitachi Ltd. machine laboratories (The head:1
克(unknown word) Miki), and Central Research Institute (The
head:Hisashi Nishino 1) developed the home cleaning robot of
the autonomous movement type with a compact body of
250mm*1 in a minimum in the world diameter
(experimental machine).
This cleaning robot can install
"Movable mouthpiece" which expands from the main body in the
automatic operation, and clean the wall side and the corner
part where garbage collects easily firmly. Moreover, the suck
cleaning is done while autonomous moving based on the room
inland chart automatically generated.
The absorbed garbage
is accumulated in the small collection in main body dust
cartridge once, connected with "Charge garbage throwing away
station" of another putting automatically after the cleaning
is completed, and exhausted to a large-scale box on the
station side automatically. Moreover, [it] automatically
returns to "Charge garbage throwing away station" when the
built-in nickel hydrogen battery amount of the remainder
decreases and [it] charges it. As a result, it is possible to
clean it without maintaining it for about one month in
*2 and automatic operation.
All the operations
can be done by the switch button of the main body and remote
control. The image of the absent house taken with the small
color camera built into the main body will be stopped in the
future, and moreover, Internet is passed and stopped from a
portable telephone etc.; A function and a remote-controlled
function to check are scheduled to be added from the
destination.;
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In the autonomous movement type cleaning
robot with the rotation brush. As of May 29, 2003.
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| *2: |
When you clean the room of six mat
corresponding once in a general home every day. (Depend
on the our company
examination) |
| - Background of development |
The home of two people or less which
centers on the aged layer and homes of working in double
harness are increasing by the change in the lifestyle
according to social advancement of 子(unknown
word) aged society of recent years and women. The load
to the body by the housework work is requested to be
reduced, and because composure is brought to busy life
in the working in double harness home, the saving of the
required time is requested to housework in the aged home
among these.
Being paid attention so is a housework
support system which applies the robot technology which
remarkably accomplishes evolution in recent years. In
potential needs for especially cleaning robot,
"Cleaning" is the first places in housework in the needs
investigation of the home robot which our company
executed high.
The map generation technology was
done from the machine laboratory, and Hitachi H&L
gathered each bringing something the cleaner technology
from Central Research Institute respectively, the
technology was united, and this development was done
doing the technology of the robot and mechatoronics
based on these needs. |
| - History of cleaning robot development in
Hitachi |
| [It] had worked on the development of the
cleaning robot in the Hitachi group in 1983. An
experimental machine which builds in the autonomous
running system is exhibited to international trade fair
"(*domotekunika*)" of home electric appliances held in
Germany in 1985. Afterwards, [it] aims at the
improvement of practical use as the domestic use,
technological in movable mouthpiece etc. development and
a built-in camera are installed while working on the
miniaturization, and [it] has arrived at the development
goods at this time. |
| - Main specification of development goods
(experimental machine) |
| Size of main
body |
250mm in diameter
130mm in (*ra*) height |
| Mass of main
body |
4kg |
| Battery |
Nickel hydrogen
battery |
| The maximum
running speed |
40cm/second |
| Continuous
drive time |
About 50 minutes
(Charge it full). |
| Charge time |
For about two
hours |
| Standard
cleaning time |
About ten minutes to
the cleaning of 6 - mat room. |
| Area which can
be cleaned |
About
50m2 |
| Collection
dust method |
Doing in main body
and automatic garbage exhaust to collection
じんし(unknown word) and charge garbage throwing
away station |
| Running
method |
1) Automatic map
generation autonomy running
2) Manual control
(remote control) |
| Drive mode |
Leaving ([It]
autonomous runs in the whole area of the room and
clean it automatically).
Random ([It] runs at
random in the whole area of the room and clean it
automatically).
Manual (remote control) |
| Main
installing sensor |
Supersonic wave
sensor and optical distance sensor, contact
sensor, and difference sensor
Giro sensor and
mouthpiece contact sensor, temperature sensor, and
another |
| Camera
function |
Color camera for
net | |
| - The inquiry of the customer ahead |
*** It is 物相談(unknown word)
<leaving> <買(unknown word)> central <it
is>. Hitachi home & life solution
company
Telephone/0120-312111
(Toll-Free) |
| - A technological inquiry ahead |
Hitachi Ltd. machine laboratory Policy
Planning Office
〒300-0013 Ibaragi Pref. Tsuchiura
City Kandachi-cho 502
832-8201 (dial-in)〔 in charge
of:Takaoka
telephone/(029)〕 | | |
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| This concludes my report. |
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| Information published in this news release is
information on the announcement day present provinces. Please
acknowledge that it is likely to be changed after the day of
the announcement beforehand. | |
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