Grill assembly of a cyclone dust collecting apparatus for a vacuum cleaner

• US 6,599,338 B2
• Filed: 02/25/2002
• Issued: 07/29/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Jung, Joo-suck, Oh, Jang-keun
• Primary Examiner(s): HOPKINS, ROBERT A
• Application Number:
  US10/082,639
• Publication Number:
  US 20020178700A1
• Time in Patent Office: 519 Days
• Field of Search: 553/37, 554/13, 554/591, 55D/IG.3, 554/26, 153/50, 153/53
• US Class Current: 55/337
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 45/12 by centrifugal forces centrifuges B04B; cyclones B04C
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 55/03 Vacuum cleaner

Abstract

A grill assembly of a cyclone dust collecting apparatus for a vacuum cleaner capable of improving the capability of dust collecting of the vacuum cleaner by reducing the amount of the filth drawn into a vacuum generating device through a grill. The grill assembly, disposed at the upper part of the air discharging passage of a cyclone body that separates filth from a whirling air current by a centrifugal force for the whirling air current of the drawn air for preventing the filth from being drawn into the vacuum generating device of the vacuum cleaner, includes a grill body and a plurality of passages disposed therein. The extended line of the center line of the passages forms an acute angle with a stream line of the whirling air current.

Claims

1. A grill assembly of a cyclone dust collecting apparatus for a vacuum cleaner, disposed at an upper part of an air discharging passage of a cyclone body that generates whirling air current from the air drawn thereinto and separates filth from the whirling air by a centrifugal force, the grill assembly preventing the filth from drawing into a vacuum generating device of the vacuum cleaner, and comprising:

a grill body having an upper part and a lower parts that include a plurality of passages therein and a lower opening;

an extension pipe having an upper end, a lower end, and a diameter which is substantially the same as that of the air discharging passage, and the lower end of the extension pipe being positioned between the upper part and the lower part of the grill body; and

a shielding member shielding the lower opening of the grill body.

2. The grill assembly of a cyclone dust collecting apparatus for a vacuum cleaner of claim 1, wherein the extension pipe includes a filter mounted therein.

3. The grill assembly of a cyclone dust collecting apparatus for a vacuum cleaner of claim 2, wherein the filter is disposed upon the extension pipe and protrudes from the upper part of the extension pipe.

4. A vacuum cleaner comprising a vacuum-generating device, a cyclone dust collecting apparatus, a grill assembly for the cyclone dust collecting apparatus, the grill assembly being disposed at an upper part of an air discharging passage of a cyclone body that generates whirling air current from the air drawn thereinto and separates filth from the whirling air by a centrifugal force, the grill assembly preventing the filth from drawing into a vacuum generating device of the vacuum cleaner, and comprising:

a grill body having an upper part and a lower parts that include a plurality of passages therein and a lower opening;

an extension pipe having an upper end, a lower end and a diameter which is substantially the same as that of air discharging passage, and the lower end of the extension pipe is positioned between the upper part and the lower part of the grill body; and

a shielding member shielding the lower opening of the grill body.

5. The vacuum cleaner of claim 4, wherein the extension pipe includes a filter mounted therein.

6. The vacuum cleaner of claim 5, wherein the filter is disposed upon the extension pipe and protrudes from the upper part of the extension pipe.