Hand Vacuum Cyclone Chamber with Self-Cleaning Porous Member
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing surface cleaning apparatuses, such as hand vacuum cleaners, face challenges in efficiently cleaning particulate matter that accumulates on the outer surfaces of porous members like screens or filters within cyclones, requiring frequent manual intervention for maintenance.
Innovation Solution
A hand vacuum cleaner design featuring a moveable cyclone sidewall and cleaning member that automatically translates into a cleaning position, allowing for enhanced exposure and removal of particulate matter from the porous member without user intervention, utilizing biasing mechanisms like springs to facilitate this process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a porous member is positioned in the cyclone chamber air outlet to separate particulate matter from air, then air treatment effectiveness is improved, but the porous member accumulates particulate matter on its outer surface requiring frequent manual cleaning
Solution Approach 1:
The cleaning member is configured to automatically contact and clean the porous member surface as it rotates within the cyclone chamber, enabling self-cleaning functionality without manual intervention. The relative motion between the cleaning member and porous member ensures continuous removal of accumulated particulate matter.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously removes accumulated particulate matter from the porous member surface through the rotating cleaning member, effectively discarding the accumulated debris and recovering the cleaning capacity of the porous member for continued operation.
2Device complexity
If manual cleaning of the porous member is required, then device complexity is reduced, but loss of time for maintenance increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cleaning member rotates continuously within the cyclone chamber, providing ongoing cleaning action that prevents excessive accumulation of particulate matter on the porous member surface, thereby reducing maintenance intervals and time loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-cleaning through the automatic rotation of the cleaning member, eliminating the need for manual disassembly and cleaning operations, thus significantly reducing maintenance time without requiring complex external cleaning systems.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This design improves the efficiency and convenience of cleaning by automating the removal of accumulated particulate matter, reducing the need for manual maintenance and ensuring continuous operation of the vacuum cleaner.
Implementation Method 1
Optionally, one or more biasing mechanisms (e.g., biasing springs) are provided to automatically translate the moveable member between an operating position of the moveable member (the position of the moveable member when the hand vacuum cleaner is in use) and the cleaning position
Implementation Method 2
Surface cleaning apparatus may use a cyclone to separate particulate matter from an air stream
Data Source
AI summary
A hand vacuum cleaner has a cyclone chamber formed of at least two axially extending cyclone chamber sidewall portions wherein one of the portions is pivotally openable. Once opened, a moveable member is translatable to clean or enable cleaning of a screen.