Locking device for exhaust filter of vacuum cleaner

• US 6,829,805 B2
• Filed: 05/21/2002
• Issued: 12/14/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Yang, Byung-Sun
• Primary Examiner(s): Till, Terrence R.
• Application Number:
  US10/150,980
• Publication Number:
  US 20030115713A1
• Time in Patent Office: 938 Days
• Field of Search: 153/47, 153/50--53, 153/271, 153/272, 153/276, 153/277, 55D/IG.3, 553/59, 554/95, 555/11
• US Class Current: 15/347
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0081 Means for exhaust-air diffusion; Means for sound or vibration damping
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/127 tube- or sleeve-shaped
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 55/03 Vacuum cleaner

Abstract

The present invention relates to a locking device for mounting an exhaust filter of a vacuum cleaner on an exhaust filter cover. According to the present invention, there is provided a locking device for an exhaust filter of a vacuum cleaner, comprising a locking device for an exhaust filter of a vacuum cleaner, comprising an exhaust filter cover mounted on one side surface of a main body of the vacuum cleaner, and including a plurality of exhaust holes and a plurality of mounting grooves formed on an inner surface of a cylindrical sidewall of the exhaust filter cover; and a filter including a filtering portion for filtering air, and engagement protrusions formed on a cylindrical outer peripheral surface of the filter to be resiliently locked within the mounting grooves, respectively, whereby the filter is resiliently locked within the exhaust filter cover. Therefore, the filter is not rattled by any vibration, and no contact noise is generated.

Claims

1. A locking device for an exhaust filter of a vacuum cleaner, comprising:

an exhaust filter cover mounted on one side surface of a main body of the vacuum cleaner, and including a plurality of exhaust holes and a plurality of mounting grooves formed on an inner surface of a cylindrical sidewall of the exhaust filter cover; and

a filter including a filtering portion for filtering air, and engagement protrusions formed on a cylindrical outer peripheral surface of the filter to be resiliently locked within the mounting grooves, respectively,

whereby the filter is resiliently locked within the exhaust filter cover.

2. The locking device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mounting grooves take a bayonet-shape, and the engagement protrusions are inserted into the respective mounting grooves and then rotated in a predetermined direction to be locked within the respective mounting grooves.

3. The locking device as claimed in claim 2, wherein engagement projections are formed just in front of trail ends of the bayonet-shaped mounting grooves so as to maintain a state where the engagement protrusions have entered the trail ends of the mounting grooves, respectively.