Dust collecting apparatus for vacuum cleaner

• US 7,381,233 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2006
• Issued: 06/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2006
• 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: Kim, Min-ha, Oh, Jang-keun
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith; Duane
• Assistant Examiner(s): TURNER, SONJI LUCAS
• Application Number:
  US11/646,636
• Publication Number:
  US 20070289263A1
• Time in Patent Office: 523 Days
• Field of Search: 55D/IG.3, 553/18, 553/37, 553/46, 553/49, 554/29, 554/34, 554/52, 554/591, 554/65, D32/21, D32/31, 964/15, 964/16
• US Class Current: 55/318
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/102 Dust separators cyclones A47L9/16
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/122 flat
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/1641 for parallel flow
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/1691 Mounting or coupling means for cyclonic chamber or dust receptacles

Abstract

A dust collecting apparatus for a vacuum cleaner, comprising a dust canister body, a part of which becomes an exposed side exposed outside a cleaner body upon mounting in the cleaner body, and which comprises a first dust separating chamber for separating heavy dirt from air, and second and third dust separating chambers for collecting fine dust from the air passing through the first dust separating chamber; first and second cyclone bodies having first and second cyclone chambers which separates the fine dust from the air passing through the first dust separating chamber; and first and second outlet pipes, wherein the first and second cyclone bodies are eccentrically disposed in the first and second dust separating chambers so as to form a protruded portion which is exposed from the exposed side of the dust canister body, and at least the protruded portion is made of a transparent material.

Claims

1. A dust collecting apparatus detachably coupled with a vacuum cleaner, the dust collecting apparatus comprising:

a dust canister body comprising;

an exposed side exposed outside the vacuum cleaner upon mounting in the vacuum cleaner;

a first dust separating chamber for separating heavy dirt from air flowed in through an inlet port formed at one side of the first dust separating chamber using inertia and gravity;

a second dust separating chamber and a third dust separating chamber, the second dust separating chamber and the third dust separating chamber being isolated from the first dust separating chamber, the second dust separating chamber and the third dust separating chamber collecting fine dust from the air passing through the first dust separating chamber;

a first cyclone body and a second cyclone body having first and second cyclone chambers, respectively, which are respectively communicated with the first dust separating chamber, the first and second cyclone bodies separating the fine dust from the air passing through the first dust separating chamber using centrifugal force generated when the air is rotated; and

first and second outlet pipes which are respectively protruded from lower surfaces of the first and second cyclone bodies to upper sides of the first and second cyclone chambers, wherein the first and second cyclone bodies are eccentrically disposed in the first and second dust separating chambers so as to form a protruded portion which is exposed from the exposed side of the dust canister body, and wherein at least the protruded portion is made of a transparent material, and

wherein the first dust separating chamber comprises an inertia blocking plate arranged at a position corresponding to the inlet port of the dust canister body so that the dirt flowing through the inlet port in the first dust separating chamber collides with the inertia blocking plate at an early stage of the air flow and is pulled downward by gravity.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein all of the first and second cyclone bodies are made of the transparent material.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first dust separating chamber and the second and third dust separating chambers are isolated from each other by a first partition wall and the second and third dust separating chambers are isolated from each other by a second partition wall, and at least a part of each of the first and second partition walls is made of the transparent material.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first and second cyclone chambers further comprise first and second spiral guides, respectively, for increasing rotational force of the air flowed in the first and second cyclone chambers, the first and second spiral guides being tinted with a brighter color than the first and second cyclone bodies in order to clearly see the dirt flowing in the first and second cyclone chambers.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the inertia blocking plate protrudes from an inner circumference of the first dust separating chamber and is bent downward.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the inertia blocking plate is protruded to an outside of the first dust separating chamber, and the inlet port is formed at a side of the inertia blocking plate.

7. A dust collecting apparatus detachably coupled with a vacuum cleaner, the dust collecting apparatus comprising:

a dust canister body comprising;

an exposed side exposed outside the vacuum cleaner upon mounting in the vacuum cleaner;

a first dust separating chamber separating heavy dirt from air flowed in through an inlet port formed at one side of the first dust separating chamber using inertia and gravity;

a second dust separating chamber and a third dust separating chamber, which are isolated from the first dust separating chamber, the second dust separating chamber and the third dust separating chamber collecting fine dust from the air passing through the first dust separating chamber;

first and second cyclone bodies having first and second cyclone chambers, respectively, which are respectively communicated with the first dust separating chamber the first and second cyclone bodies separating the fine dust from the air passing through the first dust separating chamber by using centrifugal force generated when the air is rotated; and

first and second outlet pipes which are respectively protruded from lower surfaces of the first and second cyclone bodies to upper sides of the first and second cyclone chambers,

wherein the first and second cyclone bodies are eccentrically disposed in the first and second dust separating chambers so that a portion of each of the first and second cyclone bodies has a common portion contacted with a portion of the exposed side of the dust canister body, and wherein at least the common portion is made of a transparent material, and

wherein the first dust separating chamber is provided with an inertia blocking plate arranged at a position corresponding to the inlet port of the dust canister body so that the dirt flowing through the inlet port in the first dust separating chamber collides with the inertia blocking plate at an early stage of the air flow and is pulled downward by gravity.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein all of the first and second cyclone bodies are made of the transparent material.

9. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the first dust separating chamber and the second and third dust separating chambers are isolated from each other by a first partition wall and the second and third dust separating chambers are isolated from each other by a second partition wall, and at least a part of each of the first and second partition walls is made of the transparent material.

10. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the first and second cyclone chambers further comprise first and second spiral guides for increasing rotational force of the air flowed in the first and second cyclone chambers, and the first and second spiral guides are tinted with a brighter color than the first and second cyclone bodies in order to clearly see the dirt flowed in the first and second cyclone chambers.

11. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the inertia blocking plate protrudes from an inner circumference of the first dust separating chamber and is bent in a downward direction.

12. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the inertia blocking plate is protruded to an outside of the first dust separating chamber, and the inlet port is formed at a side of the inertia blocking plate.

13. A dust collecting apparatus detachably coupled with a vacuum cleaner, the dust collecting apparatus comprising:

a dust canister body comprising;

an exposed side exposed outside the vacuum cleaner upon mounting in the vacuum cleaner;

a first dust separating chamber separating heavy dirt from air flowed in through an inlet port formed at one side of the first dust separating chamber using inertia and gravity;

a second dust separating chamber and a third dust separating chamber, which are isolated from the first dust separating chamber, the second dust separating chamber and the third dust separating chamber collecting fine dust from the air passing through the first dust separating chambers, wherein the second and third dust separating chambers are made of a transparent material;

first and second cyclone bodies having first and second cyclone chambers, respectively, which are respectively communicated with the first dust separating chamber, the first and second cyclone chambers separating fine dust from the air passing through the first dust separating chamber using centrifugal force generated when the air is rotated, wherein the first and second cyclone chambers are made of a transparent material; and

first and second outlet pipes which are respectively protruded from lower surfaces of the first and second cyclone bodies to upper sides of the first and second cyclone chambers,

wherein the first dust separating chamber is provided with an inertia blocking plate arranged at a position corresponding to the inlet port of the dust canister body so that the dirt flowing through the inlet port in the first dust separating chamber collides with the inertia blocking plate at an early stage of the air flow and is pulled downward by gravity.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the first and second cyclone chambers further comprise first and second spiral guides, respectively, for increasing rotational force of the air flowed in the first and second cyclone chambers, the first and second spiral guides being tinted with a brighter color than the first and second cyclone bodies in order to clearly see the dirt flowing in the first and second cyclone chambers.

15. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the inertia blocking plate is protruded from an inner circumference of the first dust separating chamber and then bent in a downward direction.

16. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the inertia blocking plate is protruded to an outside of the first dust separating chamber, and the inlet port is formed at a side of the inertia blocking plate.