Air purifier

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10940422-B2
Application number	US-201816028309-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 5, 2018
Priority date	Aug 28, 2017
Publication date	Mar 9, 2021
Grant date	Mar 9, 2021

Abstract

An air purifier is provided. The air purifier according to an exemplary embodiment includes a body including an air inlet and an air outlet, an air blowing unit disposed in an inside of the body, the air blowing unit being configured to forcibly introduce outside air into the inside of the body through the air inlet and discharge air into the air outlet, a filter unit rotatably disposed between the air blowing unit and the air inlet, a driving motor configured to rotate the filter unit, and a cleaning member detachably connected to a vacuum cleaner and disposed in proximity to the filter unit to guide contaminants adhering to the filter unit to be flown into the vacuum cleaner.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An air purifier, comprising:
a body including an air inlet and an air outlet;
an air blowing unit disposed in an inside of the body, the air blowing unit being configured to forcibly introduce outside air into the inside of the body through the air inlet and discharge air into the air outlet;
a filter unit rotatably disposed between the air blowing unit and the air inlet, and comprising a cylindrical filter rotatable based on a rotation axis, and a ring-shaped cover engaged with an upper surface of the cylindrical filter;
a driving motor configured to rotate the filter unit;
a filter tray on which the filter unit is disposed; and
a cleaning member detachably connected to a vacuum cleaner and disposed in proximity to the filter unit to guide contaminants adhering to the filter unit to be flown into the vacuum cleaner, and comprising a suction port including an air inlet port opened along a longitudinal direction of the filter unit,
wherein the ring-shaped cover and the filter tray each have a larger diameter than an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical filter to protrude from the outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical filter in a direction perpendicular to the rotation axis and the suction port is disposed between the ring-shaped cover and the filter tray in parallel with the rotation axis to face the outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical filter, and

wherein the air inlet port comprises a main air inlet port opened toward the outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical filter; and first and second auxiliary air inlet ports respectively disposed on both ends of the main air inlet port and opened toward a protrusion unit of the ring-shaped cover and a protrusion unit of the filter tray.

2. The air purifier as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the cleaning member comprises:
a body including a suction flow path where an extension pipe of the vacuum cleaner is inserted into a first side of the suction flow path; and
the suction port connected to a second side of the suction flow path.

3. The air purifier as claimed in claim 2 , wherein a diameter of the air inlet increases from a first end adjacent to the suction flow path to a second end adjacent to the filter unit.

4. The air purifier as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the cleaning member comprises a rake part disposed along a periphery of the main air inlet port and configured to rake contaminants adhering to the outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical filter.

5. The air purifier as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the rake part is formed by a plurality of protrusions or a plurality of brushes protruding toward the outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical filter.

6. The air purifier as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the main air inlet port comprises first and second edges disposed in parallel along a longitudinal direction of the outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical filter,
wherein the first edge, the main air inlet port and the second edge are sequentially disposed along a rotational direction of the cylindrical filter, and
wherein the plurality of protrusions and the plurality of brushes are disposed on the second edge.

7. The air purifier as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the body further comprises: a docking unit connected to one side of the suction flow path and into which the extension pipe is inserted,
wherein the cleaning member further includes a packing member surrounding an inner circumferential surface of the docking unit.

8. The air purifier as claimed in claim 7 , further comprising:
a cover configured to open and close the docking unit.

9. The air purifier as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the air inlet is formed in a grill shape that surrounds the outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical filter.

10. The air purifier as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the filter tray comprises an engagement member disposed on a bottom surface of the filter tray to be eccentric from the rotation axis, and
wherein the driving motor comprises:
a motor body including a motor shaft, and
a pressing member rotating in engagement with the motor shaft, extending in a direction perpendicular to the motor shaft and pressing the engagement member to allow the filter tray to rotate.

11. The air purifier as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the body further comprises:
a main case; and
a filter basket detachably engaged with the main case, and
wherein the filter unit and the cleaning member are disposed in the filter basket.

12. The air purifier as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the filter basket comprises
a grill surrounding an outer circumferential surface of the filter unit.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Park Dah-We
• Ko Gi-Hoon
• Nam Yeon-Young
• Lee Ji-Hyeoung

Classifications

• B01D46/681

  by scrapers, brushes or the like · CPC title

• F24F7/007

  with forced flow (using ducting systems F24F7/06) · CPC title

• B01D46/68

  by means acting on the cake side involving movement with regard to the filter elements · CPC title

• B01D46/88

  Replacing filter elements · CPC title

• B01D46/69

  by means acting on the cake side without movement with respect to the filter elements, e.g. fixed nozzles · CPC title