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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2015
Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation, Kawasaki-shi, JP;
Hiromitsu Ichikawa, Owariasahi, JP;
Masatoshi Tanaka, Seto, JP;
Atsushi Morishita, Hadano, JP;
Yukio Machida, Owariasahi, JP;
Hiromitsu Murata, Kasugai, JP;
TOSHIBA LIFESTYLE PRODUCTS & SERVICES CORPORATION, Kawasaki-shi, JP;
Abstract
A vacuum cleaner capable of ensuring communication between a suction port and a dust collecting unit even in a state that a body portion of a cleaning unit has pivoted along an up/down direction relative to a main casing. The body portion is provided on the main casing to be pivotable along the up/down direction. A sliding-contact surface portion is provided in the body portion and curved along a pivoting direction of the body portion. A curved surface portion is provided in the communicating section body and curved along the pivoting direction of the body portion to be brought into sliding contact with the sliding-contact surface portion by pivoting motion of the body portion. A communicating opening is opened in the curved surface portion to communicate with the dust collecting unit.