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

• US 6,599,339 B2
• Filed: 02/22/2002
• Issued: 07/29/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): HOPKINS, ROBERT A
• Application Number:
  US10/080,907
• Publication Number:
  US 20020178699A1
• Time in Patent Office: 522 Days
• Field of Search: 554/24, 554/26, 554/591, 554/13, 55D/IG.3, 153/50, 153/53
• US Class Current: 55/413
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/1666 with filtering means
• CPC Class Codes: B04C 5/12 Construction of the overflow ducting, e.g. diffusing or spiral exits
• 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 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 of a cyclone dust collecting apparatus for a vacuum cleaner is 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 drawn air by a centrifugal force of the whirling air current. The grill assembly for preventing the filth from being drawn into a vacuum-generating device of the vacuum cleaner comprises a grill body, and a plurality of blades formed at a predetermined space for forming a passage along an outer circumference of the grill body. The passage is at an acute angle with a stream-line of the whirling air current, and each blade includes a protrusion member protruding from the outer circumference of the grill body to the outer part.

Claims

1. 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 drawn air by a centrifugal force of the whirling air current, the grill assembly preventing the filth from being drawn into a vacuum-generating device of the vacuum cleaner, and comprising:

a grill body; and

a plurality of blades disposed along an outer circumference of the grill body and being formed so that adjacent blades are spaced and separated by a predetermined space thereby defining a passage between each two adjacent blades, the passage formed at an acute angle with respect to a stream line of the whirling air current, each blade including a protrusion member protruding from the outer circumference of the grill body in a radially outward direction.

2. The vacuum cleaner of claim 1, wherein an upper end of the grill body is shielded by a separate shielding member, the shielding member being removably connected from the grill body.

3. The vacuum cleaner of claim 2, wherein the shielding member changes the moving direction of the filth entrained in the air, so as to cause the filth to flow from the grill body to the whirling air current.

4. The vacuum cleaner of claim 1, wherein a height of the protrusion member, a space between the blades, and an angle between the blades and the streamline of the whirling air current comprise predetermined values within a range wherein the radial projections of adjacent blades do not overlap each other when the blades are projected onto an imaginary cylinder coaxial with the blades.