Sharkninja Operating LLC

Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.

Origyn LLC

Euro-pro Operating LLC

Jason Boyd Thorne

Andre David Brown

Wayne Ernest Conrad

Adam Udy

Daniel John Innes

Kai Xu

Lee M Cottrell

Peter Hutchinson

Dave Petersen

Gordon Howes

Daniel Meyer

Daniel R Der Marderosian

Sam Liu

Nina Kanevsky Conrad

David Stephen Clare

Patrick Cleary

David Wu

Alexander J Calvino

Christopher P Pinches

Daniel Tonderys

Wenxiu Gao

John B Freese

Heliang Chen

Nancy Gao Wenxiu

Gary V Palladino

David B Jalbert

Nicholas James Sardar

Steven Paul Carter

Bastin B Antonisami

AiMing Xu

Amy Kwok

David Gerard Harting

Catriona C A Sutter

Alden Kelsey

Yao Ming

Catriona A Sutter

David W Poirier

Charles Stewart Brunner

Samuel Emrys James

Brian C Burke

Isaku Douglas Kamada

Brian M Bond

Charlie Cai

Barry Xu

Roger Chen

Zach Hellman

Robert Xu

Owen R Johnson

Scott B Niedzwecki

Ognjen Vrdoljak

Michael James Douglas

Junghwan Chei

Aaron Michael Gill

Thomas E Ford

Steven Gacin

Xavier F Cullere

Christopher J Meyer-Rassow

Ming Yao

William Liberis

Hamish Thompson

Devin Feng

Courtney J Hopkins

Da Deng

Frederick Karl Hopke

David J Simonelli

Alan L Weeks

Robert Yang

Daniel Innes

Ian Liu

Robert J Bone

Mingshun Su

Pu Zhou

Jordan Ridgley

Michael D'Amico

Paul Grandstrand

Margaret Mathieu

Nikola Petrov

Leanna Michele Cornelius

Claudia Joann Richardson

Oliver Chambers

Rain Gu

Rahat Kahn

Josh Anthony

Thomas David Reid Ford

Sunil Moda

Lloyd Olson

Gao Wenxiu

Patrick Clearly

Ramiro Henriquez Porras

David W Poirer

Dan Gutierrez

Bastin Antonisami

Zongnan Cheng

Charles S Brunner

Mark A Barrocas

A flexible flap coupled to the bottom of a cleaning tool is designed to have a distal end that contacts the floor and scrapes along the floor as the cleaning tool is moved across the floor in order to help guide debris into a catch tray. The flexible flap also has a design such that the distal end can curl inwards after interaction with an obstacle (e.g., recess or protrusion of the floor surface) and continue to move across the floor picking up debris, even after the distal end of the flexible flap has been curled.

Flexible flap for use on a cleaning tool

A reconfigurable upright surface cleaning apparatus comprises a surface cleaning head and a support structure moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head. The support structure comprises a lower portion having a lower longitudinal axis and an upper portion having an upper longitudinal axis, the lower portion having a lower end moveably coupled to the surface cleaning head and an upper end that is rotatably coupled to the upper portion about a rotational axis that is generally transverse to the forward direction, wherein, the support structure is reconfigurable between a first configuration in which the lower portion and the upper portion are generally aligned with each other and an operating position in which the lower portion is rotated rearward with respect to the surface cleaning head and the upper portion is rotated in the forward direction with respect to the lower portion. A hand vacuum cleaner comprising a suction motor and an air treatment member is removably mounted to the support structure. An air flow path comprises a flexible hose.

Surface cleaning apparatus

A cleaning apparatus includes a combing unit including a series of spaced protrusions or teeth extending into a cleaning roller for preventing build up and removing debris (such as hair, string, and the like). The protrusions extend along a substantial portion of the cleaning roller and extend partially into the cleaning roller to intercept the debris as it passes around the roller. The protrusions have angled leading edges that are not aligned with a rotation center of the cleaning roller and are directed into or against a direction of rotation of the cleaning roller. The combing unit and protrusions have a shape and configuration designed to facilitate debris removal from the cleaning roller with minimal impact on the operation of the cleaning apparatus. The cleaning apparatus may include a surface cleaning head of an upright vacuum cleaner or sweeper or a robotic vacuum cleaner.

Cleaning apparatus with combing unit for removing debris from cleaning roller

A vacuum cleaner is described herein that uses an elongated design that provides the various vacuum components along nearly an entire length of the vacuum cleaner and in-line with one another. According to some embodiments, at least one waste receptacle, a filter structure, and a motor are each axially aligned with a longitudinal central axis of a body of the vacuum cleaner. An air suction inlet may also be arranged at a distal end of the body and axially aligned with the longitudinal central axis. In some examples, the body maintains a substantially constant diameter along its entire length.

Waste receptacle and vacuum cleaner

A robotic cleaner includes a housing, a suction conduit with an opening, and a leading roller mounted in front of a brush roll. An inter-roller air passageway may be defined between the leading roller and the brush roll wherein the lower portion of the leading roller is exposed to a flow path to the suction conduit and an upper portion of the leading roller is outside of the flow path. Optionally, a combing unit includes a plurality of combing protrusions extending into the leading roller and having leading edges not aligned with a center of the leading roller. Optionally, a sealing strip is located along a rear side of the opening and along a portion of left and right sides of the opening. The underside may define side edge vacuum passageways extending from the sides of the housing partially between the leading roller and the sealing strip towards the opening.

Robotic cleaner with dual cleaning rollers

A hand-held surface cleaning device consistent with aspects of the present disclosure includes a body (or body portion) with a motor, power source and dust cup disposed therein. The body portion also functions as a handgrip to allow the hand-held surface cleaning device to be operated by one hand, for example.

Hand-held surface cleaning device

An upright extractor has an upright section moveably mounted to a surface cleaning head. The upright section has a wand and hose assembly and a liquid separator. The liquid separator comprises a solid collection chamber that is separated from a liquid collection chamber by a porous divider. The upright extractor is operable in a floor cleaning mode in which the handle is a driving handle of the upright extractor. The upright extractor is also operable in an above floor cleaning mode in which the inlet end of the wand is disconnected from fluid flow communication with the surface cleaning head dirty fluid inlet and an above floor air flow path extends from the inlet end of the wand to the clean air outlet and the liquid separator and the suction motor are provided in the above floor cleaning air flow path.

A surface cleaning head includes dual rotating agitators (e.g., a leading roller and a brush roll) and a removable cover for covering a top of the agitators and allowing access to the agitators from a top of the surface cleaning head. The dual agitators may be used to facilitate capturing of debris in the air flow into a suction conduit on the underside of the surface cleaning head. The brush roll may be located in a brush roll chamber and at least partially in an opening to the suction conduit. The leading roller may be positioned adjacent to and in advance of the suction conduit opening such that the leading roller engages debris and moves the debris toward the brush roll and the opening. The leading roller may be removable from the housing and held in place by the removable cover. The cover may be coupled using isolated latching mechanisms.

Surface cleaning head for vacuum cleaner

An example of a surface cleaning head may include a main body, a neck pivotally coupled to the main body, a stabilizer, and a linkage pivotally coupled to the main body and the stabilizer. The linkage may be configured to cause the stabilizer to transition between an extended position and a retracted position in response to a pivotal movement of the neck.

Cleaning head for a surface treatment apparatus having one or more stabilizers and surface treatment apparatus having the same

A surface cleaning head with dual rotating agitators (e.g., a leading roller and a brush roll) may be used to facilitate capturing of debris in the air flow into a suction conduit on the underside of the surface cleaning head. The leading roller is generally positioned adjacent to and in advance of the opening of the suction conduit. The rotating brush roll may be located in the suction conduit with the leading roller located in front of and spaced from the brush roll, forming an inter-roller air passageway therebetween. The leading roller may provide a softer cleaning element than the brush roll and may also have an outside diameter that is less than the outside diameter of the brush roll. The surface cleaning head may also include debriding protrusions contacting the leading roller and/or a leading bumper that extends in front of the leading roller.

Surface cleaning head with dual rotating agitators

In general, the present disclosure is directed to a hand-held surface cleaning device that includes a relatively compact form-factor to allow users to store the same in a nearby location (e.g., in a drawer, in an associated charging dock, on a table top) for easy access to perform relatively small cleaning tasks that would otherwise require retrieving a full-size vacuum from storage. A hand-held surface cleaning device consistent with aspects of the present disclosure includes a body (or body portion) with a motor, power source and dust cup disposed therein. The body portion also functions as a handgrip to allow the hand-held surface cleaning device to be operated by one hand, for example.

A docking station for a vacuum cleaner may include a receptacle configured to engage at least a portion of the vacuum cleaner such that, in response to engaging the receptacle, a vacuum cleaner flow path extending within the vacuum cleaner is transitioned from a cleaning flow path to an evacuation flow path, a suction motor of the vacuum cleaner being configured to urge air along the vacuum cleaner flow path and a docking station dust cup configured to receive debris from a vacuum cleaner dust cup of the vacuum cleaner.

Vacuum cleaner and docking station for use with the same

A surface cleaning head includes a housing having a front side and back side, a brush roll rotatably mounted to the housing within a suction conduit and having at least a portion proximate the opening of the suction conduit, a leading roller mounted to the housing in front of the brush roll, and a drive mechanism operatively coupled to the brush roll and the leading roller for driving the brush roll and the leading roller at same time. The brush roll includes an agitator body and a first bristle/flap arrangement comprising a first deformable flap extending from the agitator body and a first bristle strip and/or row of tufts extending from the agitator body and disposed adjacent to the first deformable flap. The first deformable flap is disposed at an aggressive angle and the first bristle strip and/or row of tufts is arranged at a passive angle.

Agitator for a surface treatment apparatus and a surface treatment apparatus having the same

Vacuum cleaning devices include foldable wands to provide a storage configuration and/or facilitate use. A vacuum cleaning device includes a wand having a first end coupled to a vacuum unit and a second end coupled to a vacuum head or surface cleaning head. The wand defines an air passage allowing air to pass from the surface cleaning head to the vacuum unit and includes a flexible air passage along at least a portion of the wand. The wand also includes a plurality of segments pivotably connected together such that the wand is foldable about 180° in a forward direction until the vacuum unit is positioned proximate a top of the surface cleaning head, thereby providing a storage configuration.

Vacuum cleaning device with foldable wand to provide storage configuration

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Wellesley Hills, MA, United States of America

Jason Boyd Thorne