Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Syuzo Ueyama

Nobuaki Takahashi

Kazuyoshi Yoshimi

Kazumasa Kamatani

Atsushi Okuda

Souji Sakata

Atuo Hamada

Naoki Suetugu

An upright electric cleaning device includes a floor suction tool formed with a long suction opening on the bottom surface thereof. A rotating brush holding chamber holds a rotating brush that extends to this long suction opening. A suction opening leading to the main cleaning device unit is formed toward one end of the rear wall of the rotating brush holding chamber. A rib, formed on the upper section of the rotating brush holding chamber, extends along the length of the rotating brush, near the rotation path of the rotating brush. An air current path is formed to take dust drawn up by the rotating brush and stopped by the rib and suck it into the suction opening leading to the main cleaning device unit. The air current path is shaped so that its cross section is smaller at an end of the air current path remote from the suction opening than it is near the suction opening to increase flow speed at the remote end. In one embodiment, an opening to the outside is formed at the remote end of the air current path to enhance air flow toward the suction opening. In a further embodiment, the enhanced air flow if further improved by venting exhaust air from the main cleaning device into the opening to positively improve air flow.

Vacuum cleaner suction tool with partition defining air current dust pickup path

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Kasai, Japan

Syuzo Ueyama