Vacuum cleaner dust collecting apparatus
AssigneeSamsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJung-gyun Han, Ji-won Seo
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Abstract
A dust collecting apparatus for a vacuum cleaner separates dust and liquid particles from intake air. In an embodiment, the apparatus has a cyclone body with a cylindrical part including an air inlet passage and an air outlet passage, a tapered part, and a contaminant receptacle coupled to the tapered part of the cyclone body. The tapered part has a diameter that decreases from the cylindrical part toward the contaminant receptacle. In some embodiments, a screen with holes sized to pass liquid particles is disposed inside the cyclone body, so that liquid particles and dust are separated during operation.
Claims9
A dust collecting apparatus comprising:
- a cyclone body comprising a cylindrical part having an air inlet passage and an air outlet passage, and a tapered part;
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- a contaminant receptacle disposed at the lower side of the cyclone body and coupled to the tapered part of the cyclone body,
- wherein the tapered part has a decreasing inner diameter from the cylindrical part toward the contaminant receptacle.
A dust collecting apparatus comprising:
- a cyclone body having a first space and a second space, configured such that in operation, air containing dust and liquid particles rotate in the first space and separated liquid particles flow to the second space;
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- a contaminant receptacle coupled with the cyclone body and having a liquid collecting space in which liquid particles separated from the air are collected, and a dust collecting space in which dust particles separated from the air are collected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.