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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2003
Applicant:
Chad D. Overvaag, Danville, KY (US);
Inventor:
Chad D. Overvaag, Danville, KY (US);
Assignee:
Panasonic Corporation of North America, Secaucus, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47L 9/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A vacuum cleaner is provided including a housing, a nozzle inlet, a suction generator carried on the housing and a dust box carried on the housing. Additionally, a partition is provided dividing the dust box into a coarse particle dirt collecting chamber and a fine particle filtering chamber. Further, a filter assembly including a support frame and a filter element is provided. The support frame holds the filter element in the filtering chamber.