High volume, high performance, ultra quiet vacuum cleaner
First Claim
1. A vacuum cleaner system adapted to cancel both tonal and broadband noise for quiet operation, said system comprisingan inlet means adapted to allow for the intake of solids and liquids,motor/blower means associated with said inlet means and adapted to provide negative pressure at said inlet means to facilitate the intake of said solids and liquids,said inlet means includes a cavity area which is acoustically designed to produce the lowest pressure drop and the cross-sectional area of the inlet means is adapted to impede the transfer of the acoustic energy to the cavity,collection means associated with said inlet means so as to collect solids and liquids that are drawn into said inlet means by said negative pressure,a relatively short, straight exhaust means,active noise control means associated with said system and adapted to measure both tonal and broadband noise, the noise generated by said system, compensate for feedback from speaker to reference microphone and to produce an equal and opposite counter noise in said exhaust means so as to reduce the system generated noise.
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Abstract
An ultra quiet vacuum cleaner having a bag cavity (44), a motor/blower chamber (48) connected to said cavity by a flexible coupling (47) and an active, adaptive noise cancellation controller (52) so configured to quiet the exhaust of the air used to cool the motor/blower unit. Fast compensation and feedback compensation allow use of a straight, short duct (51) for superior cancellation performance.
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1. A vacuum cleaner system adapted to cancel both tonal and broadband noise for quiet operation, said system comprising
an inlet means adapted to allow for the intake of solids and liquids, motor/blower means associated with said inlet means and adapted to provide negative pressure at said inlet means to facilitate the intake of said solids and liquids, said inlet means includes a cavity area which is acoustically designed to produce the lowest pressure drop and the cross-sectional area of the inlet means is adapted to impede the transfer of the acoustic energy to the cavity, collection means associated with said inlet means so as to collect solids and liquids that are drawn into said inlet means by said negative pressure, a relatively short, straight exhaust means, active noise control means associated with said system and adapted to measure both tonal and broadband noise, the noise generated by said system, compensate for feedback from speaker to reference microphone and to produce an equal and opposite counter noise in said exhaust means so as to reduce the system generated noise.
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