Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Home and Life Solutions, Inc.

Wataru Yamamoto

Taiji Tajima

Yukiji Iwase

Masao Sunagawa

Toshiya Shinozaki

Shigesaburou Komatsu

Shigenori Satou

Susumu Satou

Makoto Hattori

Saku Egawa

Hirofumi Tanaka

Hiroyuki Sadamori

Yutaka Arai

Yuuji Hosoda

A self-propelled cleaning device having a cylindrical side cover has a suction body capable of moving transversely to the forward direction. The side cover is held by a base via a suspension. When cleaning corners of a room, the suction body moves by a wall and as the suction body moves to a corner, the movement amount of the suction body is changed. When an obstacle touches the cleaning device, the side cover moves, and the article touches a side cover switch, and the direction of the article is detected.

Self-propelled cleaning device and charger using the same

A vacuum cleaner having a vacuum cleaner main body, an electric blower motor provided in the vacuum cleaner main body, a dust collection part provided in the vacuum cleaner main body, a suction nozzle body for communicating with the dust collection part, an impeller having a rotary axis provided in an interior portion of the suction nozzle body and driven by a suction force which is generated by said electric blower motor. At least one of a rotation brush member and a rotation blade member is included in the suction nozzle body and an opening portion of the suction nozzle body is opposed to a surface to be subjected to cleaning, a suction inlet port for the suction nozzle body is provided for sucking air from an outside portion and is located separately from the opening portion of the suction nozzle body. The suction inlet port is provided so as to direct air which is sucked from the outside portion in a direction transverse to the rotary axis of the impeller and an air flow passage is formed in the suction nozzle body so that a part of the air which is sucked from the suction inlet port initially impinges on the impeller to rotate the impeller and then is passed to a region of the surface to be subjected to cleaning and is sucked into the vacuum cleaner main body.

Vacuum cleaner and suction nozzle body thereof cross reference to related application

At an interior portion of a suction nozzle body, an impeller and a brush member are installed. The impeller is rotated in response to an air flow produced by a suction force and a brush or a blade member is mounted in a spiral shape along the whole impeller or a part of the impeller and contacts a surface to be subjected to cleaning. The rotary brush rotates integrally with the impeller on the same shaft and no partition wall is provided between the impeller and the rotary brush. A suction nozzle body having a small size, and which is of light weight and provides for silent operation, and a vacuum cleaner using the same, can be provided.

Vacuum cleaner and suction nozzle body therefor

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Wataru Yamamoto