SUCTION TOOL FOR VACUUM CLEANER

• US 20130042429A1
• Filed: 03/28/2011
• Published: 02/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Misumi, Naho, Hoshizaki, Junichiro, Maeda, Tsuyoshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,220,384 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 15/415.1
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 13/006 formed by winding a strip tuft in a helix about the body
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 13/02 power-driven carriers
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 17/06 Devices for cleaning brushes after use
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/04 with driven brushes or agitators
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0455 Bearing means therefor

Abstract

There is provided a suction tool for a vacuum cleaner that can easily remove dust entangled around a rotating brush with a small force in a sanitary manner with clean hands without spreading dust.

The suction tool includes dust removing means 39 for removing dust adhering to a rotating brush 30, the dust removing means 39 includes a first remover that has substantially the same shape as a trough 34 between cleaning bodies 33 or between cleaning body holding portions 32 of the rotating brush 30, and is guided in an axial direction of the rotating brush 30 within the trough 34.

Claims

1. A suction tool for a vacuum cleaner comprising:

a rotating brush having a cleaning body held via a cleaning body holding portion on a cylindrical base;

a suction chamber having an opening in a lower part, and rotatably housing the rotating brush;

a driving device for rotationally driving the rotating brush; and

a dust removing device for removing dust adhering to the rotating brush,

wherein the dust removing device includes a first remover that has substantially the same shape as a trough between cleaning bodies or between cleaning body holding portions of the rotating brush, and is guided in an axial direction of the rotating brush within the trough.

2. The suction tool for a vacuum cleaner according to claim 1, wherein

the rotating brush includes a brush removing grip for pulling out and removing the rotating brush in the axial direction, and

the dust removing device removes dust adhering to the rotating brush using the first remover when the rotating brush is pulled out by the brush removing grip.

3. The suction tool for a vacuum cleaner according to claim 1, wherein the first remover includes a protrusion placed correspondingly to the trough, and extending in the axial direction of the rotating brush.

4. The suction tool for a vacuum cleaner according to claim 1, wherein the cleaning body holding portions of the rotating brush protrude from an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical base.

5. The suction tool for a vacuum cleaner according to claim 4, wherein a protrusion of the first remover has an upper surface that faces a side of the trough and is inclined downward from a root toward a tip.

6. The suction tool for a vacuum cleaner according to claim 4, wherein a protrusion of the first remover has a largest diameter at a root, has a decreasing width in the axial direction of the rotating brush, has a surface that faces the rotating brush and forms substantially the same shape as the trough with a certain space, and has a conical shape inclined toward a tip circumferentially of the rotation axis.

7. The suction tool for a vacuum cleaner according to claim 1, wherein the dust removing device includes a second remover that at least comes into contact with tips of the cleaning bodies of the rotating brush.

8. The suction tool for a vacuum cleaner according to claim 7, wherein a distance between the second remover and a rotation axis of the rotating brush is larger than a distance between the cleaning body holding portion and the rotation axis of the rotating brush.

9. The suction tool for a vacuum cleaner according to claim 7, wherein a distance between an upper surface of a root of a protrusion of the first remover and the rotation axis of the rotating brush is larger than a distance between the second remover and the rotation axis of the rotating brush.

10. The suction tool for a vacuum cleaner according to claim 9, wherein the second remover includes a protrusion placed correspondingly to the cleaning body, and extending in the axial direction of the rotating brush.

11. The suction tool for a vacuum cleaner according to claim 10, wherein the protrusion of the second remover has an upper surface that faces a side of the cleaning body and is inclined downward from a root toward a tip.

12. The suction tool for a vacuum cleaner according to claim 11, wherein a height of the root of the protrusion of the second remover is smaller than a height of the root of the protrusion of the first remover.

13. The suction tool for a vacuum cleaner according to claim 1, wherein the dust removing device is rotatably held by a shaft provided in the suction tool, configured so that the rotating brush passes through substantially the center of the dust removing device, and rotated integrally with the rotating brush in operation.

14. The suction tool for a vacuum cleaner according to claim 1, wherein a protrusion of the first remover faces the cylindrical base of the rotating brush in the axial direction of the rotating brush, and fitted in the trough in a circumferential direction.

15. The suction tool for a vacuum cleaner according to claim 1, wherein the dust removing device is provided integrally with or fixed to the suction tool, has an opening through which the rotating brush passes through, and does not rotate in operation.

16. The suction tool for a vacuum cleaner according to claim 12, wherein the protrusion of the first remover does not overlap the cylindrical base of the rotating brush in the axial direction.

17. The suction tool for a vacuum cleaner according to claim 1, wherein the dust removing device can remove dust adhering to the rotating brush during operation.

18. The suction tool for a vacuum cleaner according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of dust removing devices are provided.

19. The suction tool for a vacuum cleaner according to claim 18, wherein the plurality of dust removing devices collect dust between adjacent dust removing devices.