Abstract
Patent number 11940801 is assigned to Vorwerk & Co. Interholding G mbH (Wuppertal, Germany).The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied bythe inventors:“1. Field of the Invention“The invention relates to an automatically moving floor treatment appliance comp rising an appliancehousing, a drive means for the movement of the floor treatme nt appliance within a surrounding area, adetection means for detecting surround ing area features within the surrounding area, and a computingmeans, which is c onfigured to transmit control commands to the drive means, based on the surround ingarea features detected by the detection means, wherein the detection means h as at least one fall sensorarranged on an underside of the appliance housing fa cing a surface, which is configured to detect a distanceof the floor treatment appliance from the surface, and wherein the computing means is configured to control the drive means to change a movement of the floor treatment appliance when the distance detectedby the fall sensor is greater than a threshold value defin ing a slope.
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