Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Taichi Tamura

Mikio Yagi

Shigenori Hato

Nobuharu Hikida

Genji Kosaka

Teruhisa Inoue

Kiyomu Nagai

Kei Ohta

Masaru Shindou

Hiroshi Mikami

A nozzle unit for an electric vacuum cleaner has a body case with a nozzle open toward a surface to be cleaned, a first pipe coupled to the body case so as to be rotatable in the direction, and a second pipe coupled to the first pipe so as to be rotatable in the direction. A first and a second air flow passage, formed inside the first and second pipes respectively, are arranged substantially in a straight line as seen in a side view. The first pipe has a sliding portion that has an arc-shaped cross section and that slides along the inner surface of the body case, and this sliding portion is arranged inside the body case, which is substantially rectangular, as seen in a plan view.

Nozzle unit for vacuum cleaner

A nozzle unit for an electric vacuum cleaner has a body case with a nozzle open toward a surface to be cleaned, a first pipe coupled to the body case so as to be rotatable in the direction J , and a second pipe coupled to the first pipe so as to be rotatable in the direction J . A first and a second air flow passage, formed inside the first and second pipes and respectively, are arranged substantially in a straight line as seen in a side view. The first pipe has a sliding portion that has an arc-shaped cross section and that slides along the inner surface of the body case , and this sliding portion is arranged inside the body case , which is substantially rectangular, as seen in a plan view.

Electric vacuum cleaner and nozzle unit therefor

An electric vacuum cleaner having a suction nozzle comprising a dust inlet formed in a bottom surface of a nozzle body and a rotary brush rotatably mounted therein along said dust inlet, wherein said electric vacuum cleaner having either or both of configurations that said nozzle body has a flexible member mounted to a front wall thereof to rotate back and forth corresponding to the backward and forward movement of said nozzle body so that the flexible member comes in contact with a floor to cover a lower portion of said front wall, and that said nozzle body has a sliding piece slidably mounted on at least one of side walls thereof to open and close the side face corresponding to the backward and forward movement of said nozzle body.

Electric vacuum cleaner

Growing community of inventors

Higashiosaka, Japan

Taichi Tamura