Brush of cleaner

• US 7,185,396 B2
• Filed: 09/09/2003
• Issued: 03/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Im, Hyoung-Bin, Park, Sung-Il
• Primary Examiner(s): REDDING, DAVID A
• Application Number:
  US10/657,167
• Publication Number:
  US 20040111827A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,274 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 15/366
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 13/001 Cylindrical or annular brush bodies
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 2200/3066 Brush specifically designed for use with street cleaning machinery
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 9/02 Position or arrangement of bristles in relation to surface of the brush body, e.g. inclined, in rows, in groups
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0477 Rolls
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 15/05 Varied length bristle

Abstract

A brush of a cleaner comprising: a rotation shaft rotatably supported at a lower surface of a body; a brush hub fixed to the rotation shaft; and brush hair mounted at an outer circumference surface of the brush hub for sweeping dust and contamination of a floor, wherein the brush hair is composed of a first row arranged toward a shaft direction of the brush hub and divided into a first hair portion which is not contacted with a floor and a second hair portion which is contacted with the floor, and a second row sequentially arranged with the first row and divided into a first hair portion which is contacted with the floor by facing to the first hair portion of the first row and a second hair portion which is not contacted with the floor by facing to the second hair portion of the first row.

Claims

1. A brush of a cleaner comprising:

a rotation shaft rotatably supported at a lower surface of a body;

a brush hub fixed to the rotation shaft; and

brush hair mounted at an outer circumference surface of the brush hub to sweep dust and contamination of a floor,

wherein the brush hair comprises;

a first row divided into a first hair portion which is not contacted with a floor and a second hair portion which is contacted with the floor;

a second row sequentially arranged with the first row, and divided into a first hair portion which is contacted with the floor by facing to the first hair portion of the first row and a second hair portion which is not contacted with the floor by facing to the second hair portion of the first row; and

the second hair portion of the first row of the brush hair is located at a center of the brush hub thus to be contacted with the floor, and the first hair portion of the first row is located at both sides of the brush hub and formed to be lower than the second hair portion.

2. The brush of a cleaner of claim 1, wherein the first row and the second row of the brush hair are mounted toward a shaft direction of the brush hub and sequentially arranged toward a circumference direction of the brush hub.

3. The brush of a cleaner of claim 1, wherein a length of the second hair portion of the first row of the brush hair is longer than that of one first hair portion and shorter than that obtained by adding two first hair portions.

6. The brush of a cleaner of claim 1, wherein the brush hair is mounted toward a shaft direction of the brush hub and has a blade form arranged toward a circumference direction of the brush hair with the same interval.

7. The brush of a cleaner of claim 1, wherein the brush hair has a minute hair form arranged as one row toward a shaft direction of the brush hub.

4. A brush of a cleaner comprising:

a rotation shaft rotatably supported at a lower surface of a body;

a brush hub fixed to the rotation shaft; and

brush hair mounted at an outer circumference surface of the brush hub to sweep dust and contamination of a floor,

wherein the brush hair comprises;

a first row divided into a first hair portion which is not contacted with a floor and a second hair portion which is contacted with the floor;

a second row sequentially arranged with the first row, and divided into a first hair portion which is contacted with the floor by facing to the first hair portion of the first row and a second hair portion which is not contacted with the floor by facing to the second hair portion of the first row; and

the first hair portion of the second row of the brush hair is located at both sides of the brush hub thus to be contacted with the floor, and the second hair portion of the second row is located at the center of the brush hub and formed to be lower than the first hair portion of the second row.

5. The brush of a cleaner of claim 4, wherein a length of the second hair portion of the second row of the brush hair is longer than that of one first hair portion and shorter than that obtained by adding two first hair portions.

8. A brush of a robot cleaner having a suction opening at a center of a lower surface of a body for performing a cleaning operation by moving by itself and charging a battery automatically, the brush comprising:

a rotation shaft rotatably supported at the suction opening;

a brush hub fixed to the rotation shaft; and

brush hair mounted at an outer circumference surface of the brush hub to sweep dust and contamination of a floor,

wherein the brush hair comprises;

a first row divided into a first hair portion which is not contacted with a floor and a second hair portion which is contacted with the floor;

a second row sequentially arranged with the first row and divided into a first hair portion which is contacted with the floor by facing to the first hair portion of the first row and a second hair portion which is not contacted with the floor by facing to the second hair portion of the first row; and

the second hair portion of the first row of the brush hair is located at a center of the brush hub thus to be contacted with the floor, and the first hair portion of the first row is located at both sides of the brush hub and formed to be lower than the second hair portion.

9. The brush of a robot cleaner of claim 8, wherein the first row and the second row of the brush hair are mounted toward a shaft direction of the brush hub and sequentially arranged toward a circumference direction of the brush hub.

10. The brush of a robot cleaner of claim 8, wherein a length of the second hair portion of the first row of the brush hair is longer than that of one first hair portion and shorter than that obtained by adding two first hair portions.

13. The brush of a robot cleaner of claim 8, wherein the brush hair is mounted toward a shaft direction of the brush hub and has a blade form arranged toward a circumference direction of the brush hair with the same interval.

14. The brush of a robot cleaner of claim 8, wherein the brush hair has a minute hair form arranged as one row toward a shaft direction of the brush hub.

11. A brush of a robot cleaner having a suction opening at a center of a lower surface of a body for performing a cleaning operation by moving by itself and charging a battery automatically, the brush comprising:

a rotation shaft rotatably supported at the suction opening;

a brush hub fixed to the rotation shaft; and

brush hair mounted at an outer circumference surface of the brush hub to sweep dust and contamination of a floor,

wherein the brush hair comprises;

a first row divided into a first hair portion which is not contacted with a floor and a second hair portion which is contacted with the floor;

a second row sequentially arranged with the first row and divided into a first hair portion which is contacted with the floor by facing to the first hair portion of the first row and a second hair portion which is not contacted with the floor by facing to the second hair portion of the first row;

the first hair portion of the second row of the brush hair is located at both sides of the brush hub thus to be contacted with the floor, and the second hair portion of the second row is located at the center of the brush hub and formed to be lower than the first hair portion of the second row.

12. The brush of a robot cleaner of claim 11, wherein a length of the second hair portion of the second row of the brush hair is longer than that of one first hair portion and shorter than that obtained by adding two first hair portions.