Dust Container Filter Layout for Visible Vacuum Cleaner Maintenance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vacuum cleaners with separate dust collection and separation devices require users to manage each device independently, leading to inconvenience and increased passage loss due to dust accumulation, and make it difficult to determine if the filter needs cleaning or replacement.
Innovation Solution
A vacuum cleaner design with a dust container that includes a dust collection body, a cover, an air guide, and a filter, where the filter is visible and easily removable for cleaning, allowing users to confirm its state and improve filtering performance by increasing the filter's surface area and reducing passage loss.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the filter is covered by a cover member and cases, then the filter is protected, but it becomes difficult for users to confirm whether the filter needs cleaning or replacement
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the filter visible through the cover member by utilizing transparency or color characteristics. The filter material is selected or designed to be visually detectable through the cover, allowing users to confirm filter status without disassembly.
2Ease of operation
If the dust collection device and dust separation device are independently mounted, then each device can be managed separately, but the passage length increases causing passage loss as dust piles up
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the dust collection device and dust separation device into an integrated unit. The dust container serves both functions with the filter positioned within the dust collection body, creating a compact integrated structure that reduces passage length and eliminates passage loss while maintaining separate manageability through removable components.
3Device complexity
If the filter is deeply positioned within the dust collection body, then the filter structure is compact, but users cannot easily access or remove the filter for cleaning
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the dust container into removable components including the cover member, cases, and the filter assembly. The filter is positioned within the compact structure but can be easily accessed by removing the cover and cases, allowing users to extract and clean the filter without disassembling the entire device.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic accessibility where the filter position is fixed during operation for compactness but becomes easily accessible when needed. The removable cover and cases allow the filter to transition from a deeply positioned state to an easily accessible state for maintenance.
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
The design simplifies filter maintenance, enhances filtering efficiency, and reduces the frequency of filter cleaning and replacement, while minimizing passage loss and user inconvenience.
Implementation Method 1
a filter accommodated in the air guide to filter the air separated from the dust
Implementation Method 2
a dust separation part; wherein when the cover uncovers the first opening of the collection body, the filter is visible through the second opening of the air guide
Data Source
AI summary
A vacuum cleaner includes a cleaner body and a dust container separably mounted on the cleaner body. The dust container includes a dust collection body including an opening, a wall, and a dust separation part. A cover covers the opening of the dust collection body. An air guide is disposed at the dust collection body, the air guide having an opening provides an inflow hole through which air separated from dust in the dust separation part is introduced, and a filter accommodated in the air guide filters the air separated from the dust. When the cover uncovers the opening of the dust collection body, the filter is visible through the opening of the air guide.