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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2006
Dong-hun Yoo, Gwangju, KR;
Myoung-sun Choung, Gwangju, KR;
Jae-sun You, Gwangju, KR;
Samsung Gwangju Electronics Co., Ltd., Gwangju, KR;
Abstract
A dust collecting apparatus for a vacuum cleaner including a cyclone body provided with a cyclone chamber and a contaminant collecting chamber formed therein, a cyclone case provided in the cyclone body having the cyclone chamber and the contaminant collecting chamber separated from each other; an air inflow tube penetrating an outer wall of the cyclone body such that a suction passage at an outside of the cyclone body is fluidly communicated with a lower end of the cyclone chamber; and an air outlet tube penetrating sequentially a bottom of the cyclone case and a bottom the cyclone body to guide the air discharged from the cyclone chamber to a discharge passage placed at an outside of the cyclone body, wherein the contaminant collecting chamber is connected to the cyclone chamber through a contaminant discharge port formed at a side surface of upper end of the cyclone chamber.