Suction tool for an electric vacuum cleaner

• US 5,901,411 A
• Filed: 12/31/1996
• Issued: 05/11/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yagi, Mikio, Ohnishi, Yuji, Ishii, Kiyoshi, Hato, Shigenori, Miyoshi, Noriaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Till, Terrence R.
• Application Number:
  US08/775,801
• Time in Patent Office: 861 Days
• Field of Search: 15/363, 15/364, 15/377, 15/380, 15/381
• US Class Current: 15/381
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0411 driven by electric motor
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0455 Bearing means therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0483 Reciprocating or oscillating tools, e.g. vibrators, agitators, beaters

Abstract

A suction tool for an electric vacuum cleaner includes: a suction tool body which is connected to the vacuum cleaner body and has a suction inflow passage therein for conducting a suction air stream from a suction port, to the vacuum cleaner body; and a movable brush which is provided inside the suction inflow passage formed in the suction tool body and is driven by a driver device. In this tool, the movable brush sways and reciprocates back and forth about a support shaft, perpendicular to the direction of the suction inflow stream. Alternatively, the tool may have a linear motor which operates so as to reciprocate a rod which is liked at one end of it with oscillatory plate pivoted inside the suction tool. Further, this movable brush may be formed of a unit which is composed of a sweeping member having a pair of front and rear sweeping parts and a moving brushing part embedded in between, wherein the front sweeping part is shorter than the rear sweeping part.

Claims

1. A suction tool for an electric vacuum cleaner body comprising:

a suction tool body which is connected to the vacuum cleaner body and has a suction inflow passage therein for conducting a suction air stream from a suction port opening on the bottom face of the suction tool body, to the vacuum cleaner body;

a movable brush including a base having an undersurface with bristles embedded in the undersurface, the movable brush body provided in the middle of the suction inflow passage inside the suction tool body;

a driver device for driving the movable brush; and

a support shaft, located perpendicular to the direction of the suction air stream; and

a support plate including a cam slot, the support plate supported by the support shaft and integrated with the movable brush body, the support plate is driven by the driver device causing the movable brush body to sway and reciprocate back and forth about the support shaft.

2. The suction tool for an electric vacuum cleaner body in accordance with claim 1 wherein the driver device includes a motor.

3. The suction tool for an electric vacuum cleaner body in accordance with claim 1, wherein the suction tool body has two separate distinct portions.

4. The suction tool for an electric vacuum cleaner body in accordance with claim 3, wherein separation walls exist between the two distinct portions.

5. The suction tool for an electric vacuum cleaner body in accordance with claim 3, wherein the first portion defines a suction area and the second portion defines a power transmission area.

6. A suction tool for an electric vacuum cleaner body comprising:

a suction tool body which is connected to the vacuum cleaner body and has a suction inflow passage therein for conducting a suction air stream from a suction port opening on the bottom face of the suction tool body, to the vacuum cleaner body, the suction tool body having two portions with separation walls existing between the two separate distinct portions;

a movable brush provided in the middle of the suction inflow passage inside the suction tool body;

a driver device for driving the movable brush;

a support shaft, located perpendicular to the direction of the suction air stream;

the movable brush body which is driven by the driver device is positioned so as to sway and reciprocate back and forth about the support shaft; and

wherein bearings are mounted on the separation walls and ends of the support shaft are positioned in the bearings.

7. The suction tool for an electric vacuum cleaner body in accordance with claim 6, further including support plates each fixed to the brush body and the support shaft so that the brush body can freely swing back and forth.

8. The suction tool for an electric vacuum cleaner body in accordance with claim 7, further including rotatable shafts parallel to the support shaft affixed to rotary pieces attached to the support plates so that the driver device transmits motion to the rotary pieces.

9. The suction tool for an electric vacuum cleaner body in accordance with claim 8, wherein the rotary piece has an offset pin projecting from one end of the rotary piece and having an end slidably engaged in a cam slot of the support plate so that when the offset pin is rotated, the offset pin reciprocates inside the cam slot causing the support plate to sway back and forth about the support shaft in a direction perpendicular to the suction air stream with the movable brush also moving back and forth.