Grill assembly for a cyclone-type dust collecting apparatus for a vacuum cleaner

• US 6,857,165 B2
• Filed: 05/28/2002
• Issued: 02/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2002
• 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): Till, Terrence R.
• Application Number:
  US10/156,457
• Publication Number:
  US 20030159239A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,001 Days
• Field of Search: 153/271, 153/272, 153/276, 153/277, 153/47, 15350-353, 553/37, 554/29, 554/591, 554/594, 554/82, 554/86, 55D/IG.3
• US Class Current: 15/353
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/1666 with filtering means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 55/03 Vacuum cleaner

Abstract

A grill assembly for a cyclone-type dust collecting apparatus reduces the amount of contaminants passing through a grill, and also allows easy removal of contaminants from the grill, includes a grill body having a plurality of blades formed along an outer circumference of the grill body spaced at predetermined intervals from one another to define passages interconnected with the air outlet; and a fine contaminant blocking member mounted within the grill body, a first body portion, and a second body portion on which the plurality of blades are arranged, the second body portion being removably connected to the first body portion, so that reverse passage of contaminants through the passage of the grill body is inhibited accordingly, the amount of contaminants entering into the cleaner body can be reduced.

Claims

1. A grill assembly for a cyclone-type dust collecting apparatus for a vacuum cleaner, the cyclone-type dust collecting apparatus operating to separate contaminants from a whirling flow of air by the centrifugal force of contaminant-laden air in the grill assembly being formed on an air outlet of a cyclone body of the cyclone-type dust collecting apparatus to prevent entrance of contaminants to a body of the vacuum cleaner, the grill assembly comprising:

a grill body having an open upper end and including a first body portion being supported on the air outlet of the cyclone body and having a through hole and a second body portion on which the plurality of blades are arranged, the second body portion being removably connected to the first body portion by a connection means;

a plurality of blades formed along an outer circumference of the grill body spaced at predetermined intervals from one another to define passages interconnected with the air outlet; and

a fine contaminant blocking member mounted within the grill body and in communication with passage of the grill body to filter out fine contaminants that pass through the passage.

2. The grill assembly of claim 1, wherein the connecting means further comprises:

a pair of connecting grooves formed in an inner circumference of the through hole of the first body portion, the grooves being located substantially opposite to each other, each of the connecting grooves having a positioning portion having an open lower end and a connecting portion extending from the positioning portion and having a closed lower end; and

a pair of connecting protrusions formed on an upper end of the second body portion, the grooves being located substantially opposite to each other, the pair of connecting protrusions corresponding to the pair of connecting grooves, respectively.

3. The grill assembly of claim 1, wherein each of the blades is arranged such that an extended line from a center of the blade defines at an acute angle with respect to a stream line of the whirling air.

4. The grill assembly of claim 3, wherein the interval between the blades and the angle between the blade and the stream line of the whirling air is set at a range in which a shadow of a particular blade overlaps from about 10% to about 50% of a shadow of the next blade, when the blades are projected onto an imaginary coaxial cylinder.

5. The grill assembly of claim 1, wherein the fine contaminant blocking member is formed of a porous material.