Suction device for a vacuum cleaner

• US 6,880,200 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2002
• Issued: 04/19/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2002
• 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: Yoo, Dong-hun
• Primary Examiner(s): Till, Terrence R.
• Application Number:
  US10/205,375
• Publication Number:
  US 20030208880A1
• Time in Patent Office: 999 Days
• Field of Search: 153/77, 153/83, 153/87, 153/89
• US Class Current: 15/387
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0416 driven by fluid pressure, e.g. by means of an air turbine

Abstract

A vacuum cleaner suction device includes an upper casing member and a lower casing member that oppose each other. A rotary brush chamber in the suction device has a suction port formed therein. A turbine chamber that is separated from the rotary brush chamber but interconnected thereto through a passage formed in the partition that separates the rotary brush from the turbine chamber. The rotary brush is supported in the rotary brush chamber as is the turbine for driving the rotary brush. The turbine is rotated by an air current drawn into the vacuum cleaner. A service hole is formed on the turbine chamber of the seduction device body for partially exposing the turbine. The service hole is provided on a removable service hole cover with a locking portion for removably supporting the service hole cover. Contaminants that clog the passage to the tubing can be easily removed by opening the service hole by removing the service hole cover. Accordingly, there is no need to separate the upper and lower casing members of the suction device body. Vacuum cleaner maintenance and repair is made easier.

Claims

1. A suction device of a vacuum cleaner, comprising:

a suction device body having an upper casing member and a lower casing member disposed oppositely to, and coupled with, the upper casing member;

a rotary brush chamber having a suction port formed therein; and

a turbine chamber partitioned off from the rotary brush chamber by a partition and interconnected with the rotary brush chamber through a passage formed in the partition;

a rotary brush rotatably supported in the rotary brush chamber;

a turbine rotatably supported in the turbine chamber and rotated by an air current drawn into the vacuum cleaner, the turbine driving the rotary brush;

a portion defining a service hole formed in the lower casing member of the suction device body, for partially exposing the turbine, the service hole being interconnected with an air passage;

a service hole cover having a pair of passage walls, defining a narrow air passageway, said service hole cover being removably mounted on the service hole;

and locking means for removably supporting the service hole cover.

2. The suction device of claim 1, wherein the turbine chamber of the lower casing member has a pair of arc-shaped guide ribs that have a radius of curvature identical with the radius of curvature of the turbine and are formed on both sides of the turbine chamber, and the pair of passage walls have curved portions that are formed on the pair of passage walls and shaped and dimensioned to contact the pair of arc-shaped guide ribs.

3. The suction device of claim 1, wherein the locking means comprises:

a pair of resilient parts having locking protrusions formed on both sides of the service hole cover to be resiliently biased outwardly from the service hole; and

a pair of locking grooves formed in both sides of the service hole to correspond with the suction device body for receiving the locking protrusions.

4. The suction device of claim 3, wherein the resilient parts have press parts extended vertically from the ends of the resilient parts, and receiving grooves formed in corresponding opposed section the suction device body to receive the press parts, respectively.