Cyclone dust separator arrangement, cyclone dust separator and cyclone vacuum cleaner

• US 9,649,000 B2
• Filed: 11/08/2013
• Issued: 05/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aktiebolaget Electrolux
• Original Assignee: Aktiebolaget Electrolux
• Inventors: Jonsson, Stefan
• Primary Examiner(s): Greene, Jason M
• Application Number:
  US14/441,643
• Publication Number:
  US 20150305583A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,285 Days
• Field of Search: 55315, 55318, 55346, 55349, 55461
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/1641 for parallel flow
• 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 45/08 by impingement against baffle separators
• 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: B01D 46/48 Removing dust other than cleaning filters , e.g. by using collecting trays
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 50/20 Combinations of devices covered by groups B01D45/00 and B01D46/00
• CPC Class Codes: B04C 3/04 Multiple arrangement thereof combined with types according to other groups, B04C7/00
• CPC Class Codes: B04C 5/04 Tangential inlets
• CPC Class Codes: B04C 5/28 for parallel flow

Abstract

A cyclone dust separator arrangement having a first dust separating cyclone and a second dust separating cyclone. Respective air inlets of the first and second dust separating cyclones are connected in parallel to a common air supply channel. The common air supply channel includes an inertia particle separator implemented upstream of the air inlets.

Claims

1. A cyclone dust separator arrangement comprising at least one first dust separating cyclone having a first air inlet and at least one second dust separating cyclone having a second air inlet, the first air inlet and the second air inlet being connected in parallel to a common air supply channel, wherein the common air supply channel comprises an inertia particle separator located upstream of the first air inlet and the second air inlet, and wherein the inertia particle separator, the first air inlet and the second air inlet are configured such that particles are separated in accordance to their weight, such that an average weight of dust particles capable of entering the second dust separating cyclone through the second air inlet is greater than an average weight of dust particles capable of entering the first dust separating cyclone through the first air inlet;

wherein the inertia particle separator comprises, in an air-inlet region of the air supply channel, a bent section for deflecting incoming dust particles towards the first air inlet and the second air inlet situated downstream of the bent section, with the first air inlet being upstream of the second air inlet.

2. The cyclone dust separator arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the bent section comprises a first wall section with a first bending radius and an opposing second wall section with a larger, second bending radius, wherein, the first air inlet and the second air inlet are located at or on a wall segment arranged downstream and adjacent to the first wall section.

3. The cyclone dust separator arrangement according claim 1, further comprising a dust trap positioned upstream of the first dust separating cyclone and the second dust separating cyclone to receive dirt separated by the inertia particle separator.

4. The cyclone dust separator arrangement according to claim 3, wherein the dust trap comprises a line segment with a turn of at least 45 degrees, wherein a collecting chamber is preferably provided at or downstream of an outer apex of the turn.

5. The cyclone dust separator arrangement according to claim 4, wherein the turn of the dust trap is part of the bent section of the air supply channel.

6. The cyclone dust separator arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the air supply channel comprises a straight-lined section provided between the bent section and the first air inlet and the second air inlet.

7. The cyclone dust separator arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the first dust separating cyclone comprises a conical cyclone body, and wherein the second dust separating cyclone comprises a cylindrical cyclone body.

8. A cyclone dust separator comprising at least one cyclone dust separator arrangement according to claim 1.

9. The cyclone dust separator according to claim 8, wherein the at least one cyclone dust separator arrangement is part of a secondary stage cyclone dust separating unit.

10. The cyclone dust separator according to claim 8, wherein the cyclone dust separator arrangement is part of a primary stage cyclone dust separating unit.

11. A vacuum cleaner comprising at least one cyclone dust separator arrangement according to claim 1.

12. A vacuum cleaner according to claim 11, wherein the at least one cyclone dust separator arrangement is part of a secondary stage cyclone dust separating unit.

13. The cyclone dust separator arrangement according to claim 4, wherein the dust trap comprises a line segment with a turn of 90 degrees.

14. The cyclone dust separator according to claim 10, wherein the cyclone dust separator arrangement is part of a primary stage cyclone dust separating unit comprising two parallel cyclone dust separators angled apart with a main dust filter being arranged between the two parallel cyclone dust separators.