Cyclone dust collecting apparatus having contaminants counterflow prevention member

• US 20060168922A1
• Filed: 05/17/2005
• Published: 08/03/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Oh, Jang-keun
• Granted Patent: US 7,377,953 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 55/337
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/1666 with filtering means
• CPC Class Codes: B04C 5/103 Bodies or members, e.g. bulkheads, guides, in the vortex chamber cores B04C5/107
• CPC Class Codes: B04C 5/13 formed as a vortex finder and extending into the vortex chamber exits with bulkheads preventing reverse flow vortex B04C3/00; Discharge from vortex finder otherwise than at the top of the cyclone; Devices for controlling the overflow
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 55/03 Vacuum cleaner

Abstract

A cyclone dust collecting apparatus comprises a deformable contaminants counterflow prevention member mounted to within 10 to 12 mm of the inner surface of the cyclone dust collecting apparatus. The deformable contaminants counterflow prevention member is soft enough to be elastically transformed to allow large contaminants to be drawn past it and drop into a dust collecting apparatus yet resilient enough so that it returns to its original shape after a large contaminant is passed.

Claims

1. A cyclone dust collecting apparatus comprising:

a cyclone body having an inner circumference;

a grill mounted in the cyclone body and preventing dusts and contaminants centrifugally separated in a rotating stream from leaking out of the cyclone body;

a contaminants counterflow prevention member formed of an elastically transformable material and engaged with a bottom end of the grill, and preventing the centrifugally separated contaminants from counterflowing; and

a contaminants collection receptacle removably attached to the cyclone body collecting the centrifugally separated contaminants from air passing through the cyclone body.

2. The cyclone dust collecting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the contaminants counterflow prevention member is made of a rubber material of 40 Shore hardness degrees (40 A) and below.

3. The cyclone dust collecting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the separation distance between the contaminants counterflow prevention member and the inner circumference of the cyclone body is 10 through 12 mm.

4. The cyclone dust collecting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the separation distance between the contaminants counterflow prevention member and the contaminants collection receptacle is 8 through 10 mm.

5. The cyclone dust collecting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a protrusion part is configured at a lower end part of the grill with which the contaminants counterflow prevention member is engaged, and a groove part is configured at a position corresponding to the protrusion part around the contaminants counterflow prevention member such that the groove part and the protrusion part are engaged with each other of the contaminants counterflow prevention member to be fit in the grill.

6. The cyclone dust collecting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the contaminants counterflow prevention member is made of a material, sufficiently pliable to allow objects greater in size than the separation distance between the contaminants counterflow prevention member and the inner circumference of the cyclone body, to deform the material and pass around the counterflow prevention member by being pulled there through by air current drawn through the cyclone dust collecting apparatus by a vacuum source coupled to the cyclone dust collecting apparatus.