Patents Assigned to Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 12265399
    Abstract: An automatic working system, a turning method thereof, and a self-moving device. When the self-moving device reaches a boundary, a control module controls a movement module to turn to leave the boundary. In addition, the control module may control, based on coverage values corresponding to each movement range when the self-moving device reaches the boundary, the movement module to turn to a movement range with a coverage value that meets a preset requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Paolo Andriolo, Federico Testolin, Davide Dalfra, Emanuel Conti
  • Patent number: 12235649
    Abstract: Embodiments of this specification provide an autonomous robot, a moving path planning method and apparatus therefor, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining terrain distribution information of a target working area; determining, according to the terrain distribution information, whether a slope area exists in the target working area; and determining, if a slope area exists in the target working area, a width value between adjacent path segments according to the terrain distribution information during planning of a moving path in the slope area, to keep a work overlap value between the adjacent path segments within a specified range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Mingming He
  • Patent number: 12233734
    Abstract: An autonomous moving device wireless charging system, including an autonomous moving device and a wireless charging station, the wireless charging station includes a wireless charging transmitting end; the autonomous moving device includes: a wireless charging receiving end, the wireless charging transmitting end wirelessly transmits a charging signal to the wireless charging receiving end to transmit electric energy; a charging battery, electrically connected to the wireless charging receiving end, to receive the electric energy transmitted from the wireless charging receiving end; a wireless charging locating module, the wireless charging locating module determines whether the autonomous moving device is at a charging location; a driving module; and a control module, connected to the wireless charging locating module and driving module, when the wireless charging locating module determines that the autonomous moving device is at the charging location, controlling the driving module, to make the autonomous m
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Fangshi Liu, Gen Sun, Yongming Dong, Chang Zhou, Shiping Jiao, Jiang Du
  • Patent number: 12224601
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention relate to a battery pack, detachably connected to an external device for charging or discharging. The battery pack includes a control module, and a communication terminal. The communication terminal is connected to the control module and the external device, and the control module detects the signal from the communication terminal to decide the pattern to determine the type of the external device. The battery pack further includes a state indication terminal, which is connected to the control module and the external device, and the control module detects at least one operating parameter of the battery, and generates a state parameter related to the operating parameter according to the operating parameter. The control module sends the state parameter to the outside by using the communication terminal, and the control module sends an abnormality signal to the outside by using both of the communication terminal and the state indication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Qing Zhang, Qiang Deng
  • Patent number: 12189390
    Abstract: A outdoor robot includes an execution apparatus and an execution motor for driving the execution apparatus to perform a work task. The control method includes: obtaining a load parameter of the execution motor during running of the outdoor robot; calculating a change rate parameter of a load; and when it is determined that the change rate parameter of the load represents that the load increases and the change rate parameter of the load exceeds a preset threshold range, braking running of the execution apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Paolo Andriolo, Federico Testolin, Davide Dalfra, Emanuel Conti
  • Patent number: 12156622
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a base station for a cleaning robot to park in, where the cleaning robot includes a wiping board, and a flexible wiping member replaceably butts the wiping board to form a wiping surface to wipe a working surface on which the cleaning robot walks, where the base station includes: a storage module, configured to store a continuous wiping base material; and a feeding module, configured to drive a free end of the wiping base material to be conveyed to a cutting position, to cause the free end to be cut from the wiping base material to form the wiping member. The present invention has the following beneficial effects: After returning to the base station, the cleaning robot may automatically mount a wiping member without intervention by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yue Zheng, Jianqiang Xu, Shisong Zhang, Hongfeng Zhong, Yimin Sun
  • Patent number: 12153434
    Abstract: A robot lawnmower and method for controlling the robot lawnmower based on the generation of a local map. The method including receiving an image from an imaging sensor onboard the robot lawnmower, the image including an area of ground in an upcoming path, applying a semantic segmentation algorithm to produce a segmented image from the received image, the segmented image including regions corresponding to features in the image, applying a perspective transform to the segmented image to obtain an overhead view transformed image, wherein the regions are preserved in the transformed image, determining, from the transformed image, positions of the regions relative to the current position of the robot lawnmower, plotting a local map of the environment of the robot lawnmower based on positions of the regions relative to a current position of the robot lawnmower; and controlling the robot lawnmower to navigate a lawn area using the local map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: POSITEC POWER TOOLS (SUZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: John Hoffman
  • Patent number: 12153440
    Abstract: A map establishing method includes: generating a working region map and an initial shadow section, the working region map being a map of a boundary, and the initial shadow section being a part of the boundary on which a positioning signal does not meet a quality requirement; generating an initial shadow region according to the initial shadow section; exploring the initial shadow region, and collecting positioning signal quality data and positioning coordinates during exploration; and generating a corrected shadow region according to the positioning signal quality data and the positioning coordinates. A self-moving device includes: a controller; a map generator; and an exploration assembly and a shadow region corrector. An automatic working system is provided with the self-moving device. An actual range of a shadow region is first explored, and then a corrected shadow region is obtained, so that a working region map can be updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Mingming He
  • Patent number: 12135561
    Abstract: The invention relates to a self-moving device, including: a housing, a movement module configured to drive the housing to move, a drive module configured to drive the movement module to move, and a control module configured to control the self-moving device. A non-contact obstacle recognition sensor assembly is disposed on the housing. After the obstacle recognition sensor assembly detects that an obstacle exists in a movement direction, the control module controls the self-moving device to continue moving and steer until the obstacle is avoided. The movement direction is a forward driving direction of the self-moving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Davide Dalfra, Emanuel Conti, Federico Testolin, Xiaochu Sheng, Yuanzhong Ran, Yanjun Pang, Jiang Du, Xinghong Li
  • Patent number: 12135562
    Abstract: The embodiments relate to a self-moving device, moving and working in a working area, including: an image detection module, detecting an environment around the self-moving device to generate an environmental image; a first recognition module, recognizing a specific object in the image based on the environmental image to generate a first recognition signal; a first communication module, selectively sending the environmental image and/or the first recognition signal to a server and receiving a second recognition signal corresponding to the environmental image; and a control module, controlling an action of the self-moving device according to the first recognition signal and/or the second recognition signal. Beneficial effects of embodiments are as follows: It is ensured that the self-moving device can obtain an accurate recognition result in time and performs an action accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Mingming He
  • Patent number: 12119685
    Abstract: A control device including a first shell; a battery pack mounting part; a first control unit, which is provided in the first shell and is used for cutting off power transmission from a battery pack to an electric power tool when the battery pack is abnormal; a first user operation unit, which is arranged on the first shell and is operated by a user to control the electric power tool; and a first interface, electrically connected to the first user operation unit. An electric power tool system comprises the control device and the electric power tool. The control device can be adapted to different types of electric power tools, and the control device is not provided with a control portion used for adjusting working parameter of the electric power tool, such that the control device can more flexibly match an upgraded new electric power tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Harry Szommer, Warren Brown, Graham Gerhardt, Xiaoli Pang, Bing Liang, Jun Lu, Zhihan Yang
  • Patent number: 12082524
    Abstract: An autonomous lawn mower, moving and working in a working region, is disclosed, and includes: a housing, including a central axis in the longitudinal direction; a movement module configured to drive the housing to move; a cutting module configured to rotate with a first rotational axis being the center to form a cutting region, and including a cutting element; a cut-to-edge module configured to rotate with a second rotational axis being the center to form a cut-to-edge region, and including a cut-to-edge element, the cut-to-edge element being different from the cutting element; and a control module configured to control the autonomous lawn mower to move and work, where the first rotational axis and the second rotational axis are respectively located on two sides of the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fengli Zhao, Xiahong Zha, Xiaoqing Zhou
  • Patent number: 12072384
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for displaying information of a battery pack based on a mobile terminal. The battery pack is used to supply electric energy to an electric tool. The method includes: establishing wireless communication with the battery pack; acquiring status information of the battery pack; and displaying the status information on the mobile terminal according to the acquired status information. In this way, as long as a user carries a mobile terminal that wirelessly communicates with a battery pack, status information of the battery pack can be displayed. The operation manner is simple, convenient, and easy to realize, which improves user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Don Zhendong Gao, Xiaoyong Chen
  • Patent number: D1042110
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Roberto Capanna
  • Patent number: D1045284
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: POSITEC POWER TOOLS (SUZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Andrea Cestonaro, Yanan Liu, Paolo Andriolo
  • Patent number: D1045285
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: POSITEC POWER TOOLS (SUZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Andrea Cestonaro, Yanan Liu, Paolo Andriolo
  • Patent number: D1051058
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheng Wang, Wenzhi Zhou
  • Patent number: D1056825
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: POSITEC POWER TOOLS (SUZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Andrea Cestonaro, Cheng Wang
  • Patent number: D1058485
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: POSITEC POWER TOOLS (SUZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Andrea Cestonaro, Cheng Wang
  • Patent number: D1061416
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: POSITEC POWER TOOLS (SUZHOU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Andrea Cestonaro, Cheng Wang