Handy-stick type vacuum cleaner

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Solution Overview

Problem

Handy-stick type vacuum cleaners require users to twist their wrists and arms to change direction, leading to fatigue due to a fixed handle position, and they struggle to easily discharge human or pet hairs from the dust collecting member.

Innovation Solution

A handy-stick type vacuum cleaner design featuring a rotatable handle system connected via a flexible tube, allowing the dust collecting member and suction motor to be positioned at various angles, and a mechanism for efficiently discharging hairs through a helical guide and grill filter member.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the handle is fixed to the main body, then the structure is simple and stable, but the user must twist the wrist or arm to change cleaning direction, causing fatigue

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecleaning comfortVSAvoidhandle structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The handle is made rotatable relative to the main body through a rotation mechanism, allowing the user to adjust the handle angle dynamically during cleaning operations. This dynamic adjustment eliminates the need to twist the wrist or arm, directly resolving the contradiction between operational comfort and structural simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Ease of operation

If the dust collecting member is fixed, then the structure is stable, but human hairs or pet hairs are difficult to discharge from the dust collecting member

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvehair discharge easeVSAvoiddust collecting mechanism
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The dust collecting member is made rotatable relative to the main body, allowing it to rotate to a discharge position where hairs can be easily removed. This dynamic capability enables users to access and discharge accumulated hairs without disassembling the device, resolving the contradiction between structural stability and ease of hair discharge.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentEP3563739B1Handy-stick type vacuum cleaner
Publication Date: 2023.03.01 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A handy-stick type vacuum cleaner is disclosed. The disclosed vacuum cleaner comprises: a first part for collecting dust included in air suctioned to the inside through a suction hole; and a second part including a suction motor and a handle, wherein the first and second parts are hinge-connected so as to communicate with each other.