Dust collection unit and vacuum cleaner with the same

• US 7,419,520 B2
• Filed: 08/30/2005
• Issued: 09/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Choi, Jae Won, Lee, Chang Ook
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith; Duane
• Assistant Examiner(s): PHAM, MINH CHAU THI
• Application Number:
  US11/213,781
• Publication Number:
  US 20060042202A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,099 Days
• Field of Search: 552/82, 552/83, 552/89, 55D/IG.2, 55D/IG.3, 153/47, 153/52, 153/53, 210/413
• US Class Current: 55/282
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0081 Means for exhaust-air diffusion; Means for sound or vibration damping
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/20 Means for cleaning filters
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 55/02 Vacuum cleaner bags
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 55/03 Vacuum cleaner

Abstract

A dust collection unit for a vacuum cleaner includes a dust collection container for collecting foreign objects contained in air introduced therein, covers defining a top and bottom of the dust collection container, and a filter-cleaning unit having a plurality of brushes rotating around the porous filter unit to remove the foreign objects clogging the outer surface of the porous filter unit.

Claims

1. A dust collection unit for a vacuum cleaner, comprising:

a dust collection container configured to collect foreign objects contained in air introduced therein;

a porous filter unit configured to filter off the foreign objects in the dust collection container;

covers defining a top and bottom of the dust collection container; and

a filter-cleaning unit having;

a plurality of brushes configured to rotate around the porous filter unit to remove the foreign objects clogging the outer surface of the porous filter unit;

top and bottom rotation guides defining top and bottom portions of the filter-cleaning unit; and

a rotation unit configured to provide a rotational force to rotate the plurality of brushes around the porous filter unit, the rotation unit including blades connected to the top and bottom rotation guides to provide the rotational force,

wherein the blades extend from the top rotation guide to the bottom rotation guide.

2. The dust collection unit according to claim 1, wherein the filter-cleaning unit further comprises brush supports configured to support the rotation guides, the brushes being attached on the brush supports.

3. The dust collection unit according to claim 2, wherein the brush supports are inclined such that upper portions of the brush supports are closer to an advancing direction of the brushes.

4. The dust collection unit according to claim 2, wherein the blades provide the rotational force using airflow, the blades being mounted at a rotational center identical to that of the brushes.

5. The dust collection unit according to claim 2, wherein the brush supports are symmetrically disposed with respect to a geometrical rotational center.

6. The dust collection unit according to claim 2, wherein the brushes are discontinuously provided on the brush supports.

7. The dust collection unit according to claim 2, wherein the brush supports are provided by two in number.

8. The dust collection unit according to claim 2, wherein portions of one of the brush supports, which face the brushes attached on the other of the brush supports, are not provided with the brushes.

9. The dust collection unit according to claim 1, wherein the filter-cleaning unit is configured to rotate by cyclone airflow generated in the dust collection container.

10. A dust collection for a vacuum cleaner, comprising:

a dust collection container configured to collect foreign objects contained in air introduced therein;

a porous filter unit configured to filter off the foreign objects in the dust collection container; and

a filter-cleaning unit configured to remove the foreign objects clogging an outer surface of the porous filter unit by rotating around the porous filter unit,

wherein the filter-cleaning unit comprises;

top and bottom rotation guides formed on a top and bottom of the porous filter unit;

a plurality of brush supports interconnecting the top and bottom rotation guides;

a plurality of brushes attached on inner surfaces of the brush supports; and

blades alternatively disposed with the ton and bottom rotation guides and connected to the top and bottom rotation guides to provide a rotational force to rotate the plurality of brush supports,

wherein the blades extend from the top rotation guide to the bottom rotation guide.

11. The dust collection unit according to claim 10, wherein the brush supports and the blades are provided by two in number.

12. The dust collection unit according to claim 10, wherein each of the blades is reduced in a width as it goes upward.

13. The dust collection unit according to claim 10, wherein the blades and/or the brush supports are arranged at an equal distance from a rotational center.

14. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 10, wherein the blades are vertically disposed.

15. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 10, wherein portions of one of the brush supports, which face the brushes attached on the other of the brush supports, are not provided with the brushes.

16. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 10, further comprising a noise-preventing pad provided between the top and bottom rotation guides and the porous filter unit.

17. A dust collection unit for a vacuum cleaner, comprising:

a dust collection container configured to collect foreign objects contained in air introduced therein;

a porous filter unit configured to filter off the foreign objects in the dust collection container;

covers defining a top and bottom of the dust collection container;

a filter-cleaning unit having;

top and bottom rotation guides formed on a ton and bottom of the porous filter unit;

a plurality of brushes configured to rotate around the porous filter unit to remove the foreign objects clogging the outer surface of the porous filter unit;

a rotation unit configured to provide a rotational force to rotate the plurality of brushes around the porous filter unit, the rotation unit including blades connected to the top and bottom rotation guides to provide the rotational force; and

a noise-preventing pad formed between the filter-cleaning unit and the porous filter unit,

wherein the blades extend from the top rotation guide to the bottom rotation guide.

18. The dust collection unit according to claim 17, wherein the noise-preventing pad is fixed on the filter-cleaning unit.

19. The dust collection unit according to claim 17, wherein the noise-preventing unit is formed of an elastic material.

20. The dust collection unit according to claim 17, further comprising a supporting plate fixed on a lower portion of the porous filter unit to support the lower portion of the filter-cleaning unit.

21. The dust collection unit according to claim 17, wherein the noise-preventing pad is formed on a top of the filter-cleaning unit.