| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an autonomous floor treating appliance, in general, or an autonomous vacuum cleaner in a more specific but not limiting manner. <P>SOLUTION: An autonomous surface treating appliance has a body defining an outer plan profile, and includes: a drive arrangement mounted inboard of the outer plan profile of the body and configured to propel the appliance in a direction of movement across a surface to be cleaned; and a surface treating assembly associated with the body and carried transversely to the direction of movement. The surface treating assembly is generally elongate in form and has side edges extending substantially at a tangent to respective circular portions of the outer plan profile of the body. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |
