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CN110511828A
CN110511828A CN201910839497.9A CN201910839497A CN110511828A CN 110511828 A CN110511828 A CN 110511828A CN 201910839497 A CN201910839497 A CN 201910839497A CN 110511828 A CN110511828 A CN 110511828A
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Abstract

The present invention relates to intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agents and preparation method thereof, and cleaning agent is made of surfactant and water, by it is characterized in that, containing photoinitiator.Organic acid is free of in the application, the application can still play the effect of organic acid when in use;The present invention can reduction light reflection, object is imaged in the vision system of cleaning robot apparent, the present invention is applied to the bright and clean article of clean the surface, can improve the cleaning efficiency, and clean cleaner.

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Intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent and preparation method thereof
Technical field
The present invention relates to intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agents and preparation method thereof.
Background technique
Cleaning robot is very high in American-European Korea Spro's popularization degree, and China was also applying in recent years, in particular for the family of building The cleaning of outer glass.Since building is higher, there is very big risk using artificial cleaning, especially encounter in the process of cleaning Strong wind, then may to cleaning personnel personal safety constitute a threat to, therefore at present using cleaning robot to outdoors building into Row cleaning becomes the first choice of each large enterprises.
Scavenger surface information is fed back to vision positioning system, vision positioning system root in cleaning by cleaning robot Cleaning operation is carried out according to the information of feedback, cleaning agent currently on the market is mostly the product of organic acid and surfactant compound, This products application has the following problems the 1) presence due to organic acid in intelligent robot, topples in use, may be to skin It damages;Equipment may be caused to corrode when use;2) existing cannot make the vision positioning system of cleaning robot obtain standard True information has seriously affected the cleaning efficiency of cleaning robot.
Since intelligent cleaning robot belongs to Newly Sprouted Things in China, there is no compatibilities therewith for existing market, to people Body and equipment are corrosion-free, and can be improved the cleaning agent of cleaning efficiency.
Summary of the invention
The present invention provides intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent and preparation method thereof, solves technical problem 1) without organic Acid will not cause to corrode to human body and equipment;2) cleaning robot human visual system is made to obtain accurate information;3) cleaning matter is improved Amount and efficiency.
In order to solve the above-mentioned technical problem, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
Intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent, is made of surfactant and water, contains photoinitiator.
Preferably, the photoinitiator be free radical polymerization photoinitiator, it is Cationic photoinitiator, visible light-initiated Two kinds of one of agent, water-soluble photoinitiator and macromolecular photoinitiator or arbitrary proportion.
Preferably, the photoinitiator is the composition of visible light initiator and Cationic photoinitiator.
Preferably, also contain defoaming agent.
Surfactant, water and photoinitiator are added to container by the preparation method of intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent In, it stirs evenly, defoaming agent is added to get intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent;
Surfactant, water, photoinitiator and defoaming agent mass ratio be 3~98.8:1~96:0.1~7:0~2.
Invention has following advantageous effects:
1. part ultraviolet light and visible light can be absorbed by addition photoinitiator in the application, when preventing cleaning robot from cleaning, Since visible reflectance interferes, the collimation error of cleaning robot vision positioning system, the information that cleaning robot obtains are caused Inaccuracy, and then influence cleaning efficiency and cleaning effect.
2. cationic initiator is added in the application, so as to omit the addition of organic acid, without influencing using effect. When not in use, it is stored in light protected environment or in light resistant container, there is no the generations of organic acid at this time therefore can't be right Human body and equipment cause to corrode;Outdoors in use, being not used when being stored in container, the not presence of light, does not just have yet at this time Super strong proton acid, and when cleaning solution sprays irradiation of the cationic initiator in light at this time in use, cleaning solution is exposed under sunlight Under decompose reaction, the final super strong proton acid that generates also is bronsted acid, the effect of organic acid in cleaning agent can be played, Therefore cleaning effect is substantially unaffected.
3. since cleaning agent contains surfactant and water, when in use, a large amount of bubbles can be generated, and bubble In the presence of the wetting for being unfavorable for cleaned material, and due to the presence of air in bubble, one layer of sky can be formed on the surface of cleaned material Air bound is exhausted, causes the surface of cleaned material to image in the vision system of cleaning robot unintelligible, and then affects cleaning effect Rate can significantly reduce the presence of bubble, reduce the isolation of air, the surface of cleaning materials is made to exist after defoaming agent is added in the application It is clear to image in the vision system of cleaning robot, improves cleaning efficiency.
Detailed description of the invention
Fig. 1 is the transmission electron microscope photo using embodiment 3.
Fig. 2 is the transmission electron microscope photo using embodiment 4.
Fig. 3 is the transmission electron microscope photo using comparison 1.
Specific embodiment
The present invention is further illustrated below with reference to specific example.
Embodiment 1
Intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent, is made of surfactant and water, contains photoinitiator.
The surfactant is composition of the AEO-9 and op-10 according to mass ratio 5:1;The photoinitiator is fluorination Diphenyl titanium is luxuriant (Irgacure 784).
Surfactant, water and photoinitiator are added to container by the preparation method of intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent In, it stirs evenly to get intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent;
The mass ratio of surfactant, water and photoinitiator is 7:92.5:0.5.
Embodiment 2
Intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent, is made of surfactant and water, contains photoinitiator.
The surfactant is composition of the AEO-9 and op-10 according to mass ratio 5:1;The photoinitiator is two virtues Base salt compounded of iodine.
Surfactant, water and photoinitiator are added to container by the preparation method of intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent In, it stirs evenly to get intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent;
The mass ratio of surfactant, water and photoinitiator is 7:92.5:0.5.
Embodiment 3
Intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent, is made of surfactant and water, contains photoinitiator.
The surfactant is composition of the AEO-9 and op-10 according to mass ratio 5:1;The photoinitiator is fluorination Diphenyl titanium luxuriant (Irgacure 784) and diaryl iodonium salt according to mass ratio 1:1 composition.
Surfactant, water and photoinitiator are added to container by the preparation method of intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent In, it stirs evenly to get intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent;
The mass ratio of surfactant, water and photoinitiator is 7:92.5:0.5.
Embodiment 4
Intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent, is made of surfactant and water, contains photoinitiator;Also contain defoaming agent.
The surfactant is composition of the AEO-9 and op-10 according to mass ratio 5:1;The photoinitiator is fluorination Diphenyl titanium luxuriant (Irgacure 784) and diaryl iodonium salt according to mass ratio 1:1 composition.
Surfactant, water and photoinitiator are added to container by the preparation method of intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent In, it stirs evenly, defoaming agent is added to get intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent;The defoaming agent buying is in Beijing Xing Meiya Chemical Co., Ltd.;Model SA362.
Surfactant, water, photoinitiator and defoaming agent mass ratio be 7:92.4:0.5:0.1.
Embodiment 5
Intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent, is made of surfactant and water, contains photoinitiator.
The photoinitiator is 2- hydroxy-2-methyl -1- phenylacetone.
The surfactant is peregal.
Surfactant, water and photoinitiator are added in container, stirred evenly to get intelligent cleaning robot with clearly Lotion.
Embodiment 6
Intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent, is made of surfactant and water, contains photoinitiator.
The surfactant be sodium sulfate of polyethenoxy ether of fatty alcohol, neopelex, AES and AEO-9 by According to the composition of mass ratio 5:3:2:1;
The photoinitiator is 2- hydroxy-2-methyl -1- [4- (2- hydroxyl-oxethyl) phenyl] -1- acetone, the double first of styrax Ether, bis- (pentafluorophenyl group) titanium cyclopentadienyls and 2,4 dihydroxyl benzophenone according to mass ratio 3:2:4:1 composition.
Also contain defoaming agent;The defoaming agent is dimethicone.
Surfactant, water and photoinitiator are added to container by the preparation method of intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent In, it stirs evenly, defoaming agent is added to get intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent;
Surfactant, water, photoinitiator and defoaming agent mass ratio be 15:81:2:2.
Beneficial effects of the present invention are further illustrated below with reference to experimental data:
Experiment one
1, material to be tested is tested
1 materials and methods:
1.1 test sites: Yantai analysis center
1.2 experiment detections: wavelength is the reflectivity of the range of 200~850nm;
1.3 experimental subjects: in addition to photoinitiator is not added, other preparation methods and embodiment 1 are equal by embodiment 1 to 4 and comparison 1( Unanimously);
1.4 experimental facilities: USB4000 spectrometer;
1.5 experimental designs: by embodiment 1 to 4 and comparison 1(in addition to photoinitiator is not added, other preparation methods and embodiment 1 It is consistent) uniformly it is applied on glass plate, it measures.
This experiment other experiment conditions in addition to experiment process is different are consistent.
2 results and analysis
Respectively influence of the processing to glass-reflected rate of table 1
By embodiment 1 to 4 in table 1 and comparison 1 data compare as can be seen that the application by addition photoinitiator, can subtract Few light
Reflection.
Experiment two
1 materials and methods:
1.1 test sites: Yantai analysis center;
1.2 experiment detections: same glass slide uses the microscope view of different disposal;
1.3 experimental subjects: embodiment 3, embodiment 4 and comparison 2(be not in addition to being added photoinitiator, other preparation methods and implementation Example 3 is consistent);
1.4 experimental designs: the one side of glass slide is uniformly smeared into embodiment 3, another side is not processed, and is placed in microscopically observation Its
Imaging;Embodiment 4 is uniformly applied to embodiment 3 and smears position by embodiment of erasing 3, be placed under microscope square its at Picture;Embodiment of erasing 4, by comparison 2(in addition to photoinitiator is not added, other preparation methods are consistent with embodiment 3) uniformly apply It smears and smears position in embodiment 4, be placed in its imaging of microscopically observation.
This experiment other experiment conditions in addition to experiment process is different are consistent.
2 results and analysis
The comparison 1 that photoinitiator is not added it can be seen from experiment has apparent reflection, and smears almost seeing not for the application To reflection, and the image of the application is smeared compared to comparison 1(in addition to photoinitiator is not added, other preparation methods and embodiment 3 Image unanimously) is apparent;The image that the embodiment 4 of photoinitiator and defoaming agent had wherein both been added is apparent.
Experiment three
1, material to be tested is tested
1 materials and methods:
1.1 test sites: Yantai City economic and technological development zone Wanke city.
1.2 experiment detections: cleaning robot puts the speed of glass on the skin and is carried out an acceptance inspection by property personnel for this experiment
Examination is divided into: being satisfied with, is satisfied in the main, is good, poor four grades.
1.3 materials to be tested: embodiment 1 to 4 and comparison 1(be not in addition to being added photoinitiator, other preparation methods and embodiment 1 is uniform
It causes);
1.4 experimental designs: being arbitrarily grouped the 5 side by side building of selection, respectively corresponds embodiment 1 to 4 and comparison 1(is removed It is not added outside photoinitiator, other preparation methods are consistent with embodiment 1);Selected story height is 30 layers.
Cleaning robot selected by this experiment is provided by Yantai Hai Telin automation Science and Technology Ltd.;
This experiment other experiment conditions in addition to experiment process is different are consistent;.
2 results and analysis
Cleaning robot puts the speed and customer satisfaction evaluation testing result of glass on the skin, is shown in Table 2
By experimental data in table 2 compare it can be seen from the application can significantly improve the cleaning efficiency of cleaning robot, and clean Effect is good, can be with cleaning robot compatible use;And the comparison 1 for the photoinitiator and defoaming agent not being added, then cleaning speed is slow, And cleaning effect is poor, with cleaning robot compatible use, effect is unsatisfactory.

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1. intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent, is made of surfactant and water, by it is characterized in that, containing photoinitiator.
2. intelligence cleaning robot cleaning agent as described in claim 1, which is characterized in that the photoinitiator is radical polymerization One in light combination initiator, Cationic photoinitiator, visible light initiator, water-soluble photoinitiator and macromolecular photoinitiator Two kinds of kind or arbitrary proportion.
3. intelligence cleaning robot cleaning agent as described in claim 1, which is characterized in that the photoinitiator is that visible light draws Send out the composition of agent and Cationic photoinitiator.
4. the intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent as described in claims 1 to 3 any one, which is characterized in that also containing defoaming Agent.
5. the preparation method of intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent, which is characterized in that add surfactant, water and photoinitiator Enter into container, stir evenly, defoaming agent is added to get intelligent cleaning robot cleaning agent;
Surfactant, water, photoinitiator and defoaming agent mass ratio be 3~98.8:1~96:0.1~7:0~2.
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