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Electric vacuum cleaner and cyclonic dust collecting apparatus

  • US 20060016043A1
  • Filed: 07/21/2005
  • Published: 01/26/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An electric vacuum cleaner comprising:

  • a main body including an electric fan incorporated therein; and

    a dust collecting apparatus removable from the main body, wherein the dust collecting apparatus comprises a suction port, a cyclonic flow path for swirling air sucked from the suction port to separate dust from the air by a centrifugal force, a dust collecting chamber in which the separated dust is collected, an air outlet port provided in a wall of the dust collecting chamber for discharging the air sucked from the suction port, and a filter attached to the air outlet port, the main body has a wall opposed to the wall of the dust collecting chamber and having an opening smaller than the air outlet port in opposed relation to the air outlet port for feeding the air downstream by the electric fan, the air outlet port has a region opposed to the opening and a region not opposed to the opening, and a guide passage is provided for guiding air discharged from the region of the air outlet port not opposed to the opening toward the opening.

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