Cyclone dust collecting apparatus for vacuum cleaner

• US 7,722,693 B2
• Filed: 12/16/2008
• Issued: 05/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Han, Jung-gyun, Oh, Jang-keun, Yoo, Dong-hun
• Primary Examiner(s): Greene; Jason M
• Assistant Examiner(s): BUI, DUNG H
• Application Number:
  US12/316,688
• Publication Number:
  US 20090133370A1
• Time in Patent Office: 525 Days
• Field of Search: 553/37, 553/45, 553/46, 553/43, 554/26, 554/29, 554/593, 554/594, 553/48, 554/55, 554/47, 55D/IG.3, 153/53, 153/52
• US Class Current: 55/345
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/1633 Concentric cyclones
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/165 Construction of inlets
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/1666 with filtering means
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/1683 Dust collecting chambers; Dust collecting receptacles
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 45/16 generated by the winding course of the gas stream , the centrifugal forces being generated solely or partly by mechanical means, e.g. fixed swirl vanes
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 55/03 Vacuum cleaner

Abstract

A cyclone dust collecting apparatus for a vacuum cleaner includes a first cyclone, a second cyclone disposed inside the first cyclone, and an air guiding member to form an entrance of the second cyclone through which semi-clean air discharged from the first cyclone enters. The air guiding member includes a grill member to have a plurality of holes, and a plurality of guiding blades disposed inside the grill member.

Claims

1. A cyclone dust collecting apparatus for a vacuum cleaner, comprising:

a first cyclone;

a second cyclone disposed inside the first cyclone; and

an air guiding member to form an entrance of the second cyclone through which semi-clean air discharged from the first cyclone enters;

wherein the air guiding member comprises;

a grill member having a plurality of holes; and

a plurality of guiding blades disposed inside the grill member.

2. The cyclone dust collecting apparatus of claim 1, wherein the grill member and the plurality of guiding blades are arranged in two circles that are concentric about a vertical axis of the second cyclone.

3. The cyclone dust collecting apparatus of claim 1, wherein the grill member is formed in a mesh shape.

4. The cyclone dust collecting apparatus of claim 1, wherein the grill member comprises a blocking portion at which the plurality of holes is not formed.

5. The cyclone dust collecting apparatus of claim 4, wherein the blocking portion is formed near an air suction hole of the first cyclone.

6. The cyclone contaminant collecting apparatus of claim 1, wherein the plurality of guiding blades forms a plurality of slots through which the semi-clean air passed through the grill member enters;

and

wherein the plurality of slots each have an entrance and an exit and the plurality of slots is inclined so that a height of the entrance of each of the plurality of slots is higher than a height of the exit of each of the plurality of slots.

7. The cyclone dust collecting apparatus of claim 6, wherein the grill member comprises a plurality of entering slant portions that is formed at a top end of the grill member corresponding to top portions of the plurality of slots and projects to be downwardly inclined from an inner surface of the top end of the grill member.

8. The cyclone dust collecting apparatus of claim 1, wherein the air guiding member is detachably disposed at the first cyclone.

9. The cyclone dust collecting apparatus of claim 8, wherein the grill member and the plurality of guiding blades of the air guiding member are separated from each other.

10. The cyclone dust collecting apparatus of claim 8, wherein the plurality of guiding blades comprises a plurality of locking hooks;

and wherein the first cyclone comprises a plurality of locking holes formed to fix the plurality of locking hooks.

11. The cyclone dust collecting apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

an air-discharging pipe that is disposed at a center of a top wall of the first cyclone, and that extends to the same level as a bottom end of the air guiding member, or to a level lower than the bottom end of the air guiding member, wherein

the air-discharging pipe discharges cleaned air, which whirls downwardly and rises up inside the second cyclone, in a direction opposite to gravity.

12. The cyclone dust collecting apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a dust collecting receptacle detachably disposed under the first and second cyclones so as to collect dust discharged from each of the first and second cyclones.

13. The cyclone dust collecting apparatus of claim 12, wherein the dust collecting receptacle comprises:

a first dust collecting chamber to collect dust separated from the first cyclone; and

a second dust collecting chamber to collect fine dust separated from the second cyclone.