Hitachi, Ltd.

Atusi Hosokawa

Kunio Miyashita

Takeshi Abe

Kazuo Tahara

Toshiyuki Ajima

Haruo Koharagi

Yoshitaro Ishii

Fumio Jyoraku

Hisanori Toyoshima

Hisao Suka

Mitsuhisa Kawamata

Motoo Futami

Tsunehiro Endo

Tunehiro Endo

Shoichi Ito

A controlling apparatus controls a suction performance of a blower motor which is installed into a cleaner main body. The controlling apparatus increases the suction performance when a suction nozzle is operated and decreases the suction performance when the suction nozzle is stopped. Corresponding to a floor use suction nozzle and a crevice use suction nozzle, at a predetermined air flow amount range, the most suitable operation control being suited to a discriminated suction nozzle can carried out automatically. Plural kinds of the suction nozzles at an actual use scope are set beforehand. When the suction nozzle is exchanged the flow amount range is changed over and selected with a respective suction nozzle. Plural kinds of the suction nozzles are selected and changed over automatically according to the dimension of a change amount of an operation condition. A brushless direct motor is used as the blower motor and has a domain being operated at a chopper control duty of factor 100%.

Vacuum cleaner

In a vacuum cleaner, both static pressure H.sub.data and a variation width .DELTA.H in the static pressure appearing when a suction port is operated are detected from a pressure sensor provided at a rear side of a filter within a main body of the vacuum cleaner; a current variation width .DELTA.pbi appearing when the suction port is operated is detected from a current of a nozzel motor for driving a rotary brush stored in a power brush suction port; an air quantity at the suction port is calculated from the current, rotational speed of a fan motor and static pressure; command values are newly obtained by performing a fuzzy calculation with the variation width .DELTA.pbi, static-pressure command value Hcmd; the variation width .DELTA.H and the static-pressure command value Qcmd; the variation width .DELTA.pbi and static-pressure command value Hcmd; and also the variation width .DELTA.H and static-pressure command value Qcmd as the input thereto; the rotational speeds of the fan motor and nozzel motor are controlled from the result of the command values; and further optimum air suction force is automatically obtained, depending upon the suction port under use and cleaning floor plane.

Vacuum cleaner with fuzzy logic control

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Hitachi, Japan

Atusi Hosokawa