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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:
Sep. 01, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 09, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka-fu, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
153273 ; 15339 ;
Abstract
An upright vacuum cleaner has a float unit (29A) for lifting the upright vacuum cleaner during cleaning by spouting discharge air to a floor to be cleaned. The float unit (29A) has a floor-opposing face having a discharge-air outlet port (31) for spouting the discharge air of a motor fan (21).