Vacuum cleaner

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8959707-B2
Application number	US-201013508232-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 4, 2010
Priority date	Nov 6, 2009
Publication date	Feb 24, 2015
Grant date	Feb 24, 2015

Abstract

A vacuum cleaner including a suction port body, a motor-driven blower, and a cyclone part that is disposed between the suction port body and the motor-driven blower and is provided with an inflow port, a swirl chamber, and a discharge port body. The side surface of the discharge port body is composed of a cylindrical mesh and a conical mesh. The side wall of the swirl chamber is composed of a cylindrical part and a conical part. The vacuum cleaner further includes a zero-order opening formed by opening a part of the cylindrical part, a first-order opening formed by opening a part of the conical part, a zero-order dust case communicating with the swirl chamber via the zero-order opening, and a first-order dust case communicating with the swirl chamber via the first-order opening.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vacuum cleaner comprising:
a suction port body for sucking dust-containing air from the outside;
a motor-driven blower for generating suction air; and
a cyclone part which is disposed between the suction port body and the motor-driven blower and is provided with an inflow port, a swirl chamber, and a discharge port body so that the dust-containing air flowing in through the inflow port is swirled in the swirl chamber, and is discharged from the discharge port body after dust has been separated, wherein
a side wall of the swirl chamber has:
a substantially cylindrically-shaped cylindrical part connected to the inflow port; and
a substantially conically-shaped conical part connected to a lower portion of the cylindrical part, wherein the vertex thereof is located at a lower portion thereof, and
a side wall of the discharge port body has:
a substantially cylindrically-shaped cylindrical body covered by an upper portion of the cylindrical part of the swirl chamber and having a plurality of pores; and
a substantially conically-shaped conical body having a plurality of pores and being connected to a lower portion of the cylindrical body and covered by the cylindrical part of the swirl chamber, wherein the vertex thereof is located at a position which does not reach the conical part of the swirl chamber in the lower portion of the cylindrical part of the swirl chamber, and
the vacuum cleaner further comprises:
a first opening formed by opening a side wall of the cylindrical part of the swirl chamber such that a lower end of the first opening is nearer to the conical part than the inflow port and the cylindrical body are to the conical part;
a second opening formed by opening a part of the conical part of the swirl chamber;
a first dust case communicating with the swirl chamber via the first opening; and
a second dust case communicating with the swirl chamber via the second opening.

2. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 1 , wherein the sum total of opening areas of the pores in the conical body is smaller than the sum total of opening areas of the pores in the cylindrical body.

3. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 1 , wherein the tilt angle of the conical part of the swirl chamber with respect to the central axis thereof is approximately equivalent to or smaller than the tilt angle of the conical body of the discharge port body with respect to the central axis.

4. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 1 , wherein the opening area of the second opening is smaller than the opening area of the first opening.

5. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 1 , wherein the side wall of the discharge port body is formed with pores in a zone excluding a part near the first opening.

6. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 1 , wherein the side wall of the discharge port body is formed with pores in a zone excluding a part near the inflow port.

7. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 1 , wherein the height position in the axial direction of at least a part of the substantially conically-shaped surface of the conical body comes within the opening range in the axial direction of the first opening.

8. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 1 , wherein the inflow port is arranged so that the height range in the axial direction of the cyclone part comes within the height range in the axial direction of the cylindrical body.

9. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 8 , wherein the height position in the axial direction of the large end of the conical body comes out of the opening range in the axial direction of the first opening.

10. The vacuum cleaner according to claim 1 , wherein the vacuum cleaner further comprises a second cyclone part which is disposed between the cyclone part and the motor-driven blower to separate dust from the dust-containing air discharged from the discharge port body of the cyclone part and to discharge the air from which dust has been removed.

Assignees

• Maeda Tsuyoshi
• Komae Sota
• Hoshizaki Junichiro
• Kobayashi Tomoo
• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Maeda Tsuyoshi
• Komae Sota
• Hoshizaki Junichiro
• Kobayashi Tomoo

Classifications

• A47L9/16 Primary

  Arrangement or disposition of cyclones or other devices with centrifugal action · CPC title

• B04C5/08

  Vortex chamber constructions · CPC title

• B04C5/13

  formed as a vortex finder and extending into the vortex chamber {(exits with bulkheads preventing reverse flow vortex B04C3/00)}; Discharge from vortex finder otherwise than at the top of the cyclone; Devices for controlling the overflow · CPC title

• B04C5/04

  Tangential inlets · CPC title

• A47L9/1666

  with filtering means · CPC title