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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; A47L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364131 ; 15319 ;
Abstract
A vacuum cleaner is provided which has a motor housing (2) and a hose (8), which can be coupled via two mains-voltage wires (38, 42), one communication wire (48) and contacts (32, 34, 30). The motor housing (2) and the handle (10) of the hose (8) include microprocessors (6, 12) which communicate with one another via the communication wire (48). The first reference signal (26) of the one microprocessor (6) is connected to the one mains voltage terminal (18) and the second reference signal (44) of the other microprocessor (12) is connected to the other mains voltage terminal (40).