Vacuum cleaner provided with dust-removing device

• US 8,763,201 B2
• Filed: 02/09/2010
• Issued: 07/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Tak-Soo, Choi, Keon-soo, Cho, Young-Jun
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, DUNG V
• Application Number:
  US13/138,988
• Publication Number:
  US 20120047683A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,603 Days
• Field of Search: 153/50, 153/52, 153/53, 153/47, 553/37, 553/57, 553/00, 553/04, 554/29, 554/30, 55D/IG.3
• US Class Current: 15/347
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 5/362 of the horizontal type, e.g. canister or sledge type
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/00 Details or accessories of suction cleaners, e.g. mechanical means for controlling the suction or for effecting pulsating action; Storing devices specially adapted to suction cleaners or parts thereof; Carrying-vehicles specially adapted for suction cleaners
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/20 Means for cleaning filters
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2279/55 for cleaning appliances, e.g. suction cleaners
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 45/14 generated by rotating vanes, discs, drums or brushes
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 46/2411 Filter cartridges
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 50/20 Combinations of devices covered by groups B01D45/00 and B01D46/00

Abstract

A vacuum cleaner having a dust removing apparatus includes a main body in which a dust collecting unit is disposed, a filter disposed inside the dust collecting unit, the dust removing apparatus to dust off the filter, a rotating handle that allows the dust removing apparatus to be rotated, the rotating handle disposed in an outer surface of the dust collecting unit, and a body cover in which a rotating-handle exposing hole is formed for the rotating handle to be exposed outside in a state that the dust collecting unit is disposed in the main body, the body cover rotatably disposed at the main body. The vacuum cleaner can remove dust from filter regardless whether the dust collecting unit is disposed in or separated from the main body. The vacuum cleaner also can remove dust from the filter while the vacuum cleaner operates.

Claims

1. A vacuum cleaner having a dust removing apparatus comprising:

a main body in which a dust collecting unit is disposed;

a filter disposed inside the dust collecting unit;

a dust removing apparatus to remove dust from the filter;

a rotating handle that allows the dust removing apparatus to be rotated, the rotating handle disposed in an outer surface of the dust collecting unit; and

a body cover in which a rotating-handle exposing hole is formed for the rotating handle to be exposed outside in a state that the dust collecting unit is disposed in the main body, the body cover rotatably disposed at the main body.

2. The vacuum cleaner of claim 1, wherein the dust collecting unit is configured to rotate the dust removing apparatus by the rotating handle in a state that the dust collecting unit is disposed in the main body or in a state that the dust collecting unit is separated from the main body.

3. The vacuum cleaner of claim 1, wherein the dust collecting unit is configured to rotate the dust removing apparatus by the rotating handle during operation of the vacuum cleaner.

4. The vacuum cleaner of claim 1, wherein the dust collecting unit has an inner space divided into a first dust collecting region to collecting dust separated in a centrifugal separating member and a second dust collecting region to collecting dust removing from the filter.

5. The vacuum cleaner of claim 4, wherein the dust collecting unit further comprises a dust discharging cover that is connected to a lower end of the dust collecting unit to be opened and closed to discharge at the same time the dust collected both in the first dust collecting region and the second dust collecting region, and

the dust discharging cover includes a dust-container air-discharging port to discharge air from the dust collecting unit.

6. The vacuum cleaner of claim 1, wherein the rotating handle is configured to be rotated by a motor.