Dust collector
Technical Field
The invention relates to the field of dust removing equipment, in particular to a dust collector.
Background
In the existing negative pressure cleaning devices, such as a sweeping robot, a handheld dust collector and the like, the travelling direction of the negative pressure cleaning device defaults to the cleaning direction of the device, namely, the cleaning suction ports of the cleaning device are all positioned on the front side of the travelling direction, so that the cleaning effect is better when the device is advanced, and the dust removing effect is poor when the device is moved reversely. Because missing sundries and dust can appear in many times in the cleaning process, the equipment is required to turn around and walk once again from the original route, and the cleaning process is very inconvenient.
The Chinese patent with the patent number of CN201210342193.X discloses a floor brush of a dust collector with double suction ports, wherein the floor brush is respectively provided with a front suction port and a rear suction port at the front and the rear of a base, a guide hole is arranged at the downstream of an air inlet of the floor brush, and an air flow channel positioned at the upstream of the guide hole is formed between an upper fan cover and a lower fan cover. Through the arrangement of the front suction port and the rear suction port, the problems that the existing floor brush cannot be cleaned or the cleaning effect is not ideal due to the fact that the existing floor brush retreats are solved. However, this double suction port design still has certain drawbacks. On one hand, the rear suction port breaks the original structure of the whole air duct design, a channel matched with the rear suction port occupies the suction flux of the total suction channel to influence the dust collection effect of the front suction port, on the other hand, the rear suction port moves backwards relative to the front suction port, the ground clearance of the whole machine is unchanged, dust and sundries which cannot be sucked in the advancing process still cannot be sucked smoothly after the rear suction port moves backwards.
The Chinese patent application No. CN200580004495.4 discloses a floor dust collection port for a dust collector, wherein the front end and the rear end of a roller (4) of the floor brush (1) are provided with baffle bars, the baffle bars advance or retreat, the corresponding baffle bars can be moved upwards, a suction port which is originally downward is further formed, and a side seam is formed at the front side or the rear side, so that the repeated dust collection of the carpet and other positions which are difficult to remove dust can be conveniently carried out from the side seam. However, the design of the dust collection opening which is changed up and down has better dust collection effect on flexible surfaces such as carpets, but has poor dust collection effect on sundries on the ground, and still does not accord with the conventional dust collection environment.
Disclosure of Invention
The first technical problem to be solved by the invention is to provide a dust collector capable of effectively removing dust behind a shell during backing.
The second technical problem to be solved by the invention is to provide a dust collector capable of automatically lifting or lowering the rear part of a shell by means of swinging of a connecting piece.
The invention solves the first technical problem by adopting the technical scheme that the dust collector comprises:
the floor brush is provided with a dust collection cavity with a downward opening at the front side in the advancing direction;
the connecting piece is used for connecting the handheld part of the dust collector to the ground brush, and the top of the connecting piece is provided with a pipe orifice part with an upward opening and used for inserting the bottom of the handheld part;
The wheel assembly is arranged at the rear part of the ground brush and provided with a supporting wheel capable of rotating relative to the ground brush, and the rotating axis of the supporting wheel is perpendicular to the travelling direction of the ground brush;
The bottom of the connecting piece is restrained on the ground brush in a back-and-forth swinging way, the power input end of the wheel assembly is connected to a position, adjacent to the bottom, of the connecting piece, and then moves up and down relative to the ground brush under the back-and-forth swinging action of the bottom of the connecting piece, and the bottom wall of the ground brush is inclined downwards from back to front in a downward moving state, so that a first gap for sundry dust to enter is formed between the bottom wall of the ground brush and the ground to be cleaned.
In order to further realize the up-and-down movement of the connecting member driving wheel assembly, preferably, the floor brush has a housing, a mounting cavity is formed in a rear hollow portion of the housing, the connecting member is correspondingly arranged with one wheel assembly on each of two sides in a traveling direction of the floor brush, the wheel assembly comprises a wheel seat positioned in the mounting cavity and a mounting shaft connected to the wheel seat, the mounting shaft is at least partially leaked outside the housing, and the supporting wheel is assembled on the mounting shaft.
In order to facilitate the swinging of the connecting piece, preferably, the bottom wall of the mounting cavity is provided with two guide ribs extending along the connecting piece, the two guide ribs are oppositely arranged at two sides of the swinging direction of the connecting piece, and correspondingly, the two sides of the swinging direction of the connecting piece are provided with guide parts which extend laterally and are matched with the corresponding guide ribs.
Specifically, the guide part is a boss protruding on the outer wall surface of the connecting piece, the guide rib is provided with a notch part with an upward opening, the boss is accommodated in the notch part, and the length of the notch part in the swinging direction of the connecting piece is larger than the diameter of the boss.
In order to further solve the second technical problem, the invention adopts the technical scheme that the boss is also provided with a first transmission part, each first transmission part is provided with a second transmission part matched with the corresponding wheel seat, and the wheel seat and the supporting wheel are linked with the connecting piece through the matching of the first transmission part and the second transmission part.
Specifically, the connecting piece is basically in a cylinder shape, the first transmission part is a convex column which is arranged on the boss and extends laterally, the second transmission part is a guide groove which is arranged on the side wall corresponding to the wheel seat and extends along the swinging direction of the connecting piece, and the convex column is matched with the guide groove in a sliding manner.
In order to further secure the engagement of the boss with the guide groove, it is preferable that the guide groove is arranged obliquely upward from front to rear, and the wheel seat and the supporting wheel are in a state of being moved downward in a state that the link swings to the point that the boss slides to the front end of the guide groove.
In order to further ensure that the floor brush can be smoothly switched when advancing or retreating, in the two sides of the bottom of the floor brush, each side is provided with a roller, and the rollers are arranged adjacent to the dust collection cavity, so that the bottom wall of the floor brush is inclined downwards from front to back in a travelling state, a second gap is formed between the dust collection cavity and the floor to be cleaned, and the existence of the rollers is equivalent to the action of a rocker, so that the cleaning state of the whole floor brush can be conveniently switched when the wheel assembly moves up and down.
In order to ensure that the driving wheel has certain buffering and prevent the wheel assembly from moving up and down suddenly, the wheel assembly further comprises an elastic piece, one end of the elastic piece is propped against the bottom wall of the mounting cavity, the other end of the elastic piece is propped against the wheel seat, and in the state that the wheel seat moves downwards, the elastic piece is in an energy storage state and acts on the wheel seat, so that the wheel seat always has a trend of moving upwards and resetting.
Specifically, the wheel seat is provided with accommodating cavities with downward openings at the front side and the rear side, positioning columns which extend upwards and are matched with the accommodating cavities are arranged at the bottom of the shell at corresponding positions, and the elastic piece is a spring which is arranged in the accommodating cavities and two ends of the elastic piece are respectively propped against the top wall of the accommodating cavity and the upper ends of the positioning columns.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages that when the dust collector is used, different forces are applied to the handheld part when the dust collector is moved forwards or backwards, the connecting piece connected with the handheld part is moved back to the corresponding opposite ground brush to swing forwards or backwards, and the wheel assembly and the connecting piece are linked, so that the bottom wall of the ground brush is inclined downwards from back to front, a first gap for entering sundry dust is formed between the bottom wall of the ground brush and the ground to be cleaned, the rear side of the dust collector is ensured to have enough space for sucking the sundry dust into the dust collection cavity when the dust collector is moved backwards, and the dust collection can be realized by operating the dust collector to move backwards once part of sundry dust leaks when the dust collector is moved to all directions without turning the direction again.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the overall structure of a vacuum cleaner according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the structure of FIG. 1 at another angle;
FIG. 3 is a schematic illustration of the mating of the connector with the wheel assembly;
FIG. 4 is an exploded view of a portion of the structure of FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the overall structure of the wheel base;
fig. 6 is a schematic view showing the structure of the floor brush in the forward state in the present embodiment;
Fig. 7 is a schematic view of the structure of the floor brush in the backward state in the present embodiment;
Fig. 8 is an overall schematic view of a vacuum cleaner according to an embodiment of the invention.
Detailed Description
The invention is described in further detail below with reference to the embodiments of the drawings.
As shown in fig. 1 to 8, which are a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the cleaner includes a floor brush 1, a connection member 2, and a wheel assembly 3 in this embodiment. The front side of the floor brush 1 in the travelling direction is provided with a dust collection cavity 11 with a downward opening, namely, the bottom of the dust collection cavity 11 is provided with a dust collection opening 111, the rear part of the floor brush 1 is also provided with an air outlet 113 which is in fluid communication with the dust collection opening 111, and the air outlet 113 is positioned at the downstream of the dust collection opening 111 along the airflow flowing path, so that the dust collection opening 111, the dust collection cavity 11 and the air outlet 113 form a complete dust collection flow passage. Of course, in order to ensure that the cleaner covers a sufficient cleaning area, at least 2 dust suction chambers 11 are generally provided, and in this embodiment, for example, 4 dust suction chambers 11 are illustrated, where the 4 dust suction chambers together form an upstream section of the dust suction flow channel, and a downstream section of the dust suction flow channel is formed adjacent to the air outlet 113, generally, the upstream section and the downstream section of the dust suction flow channel are not necessarily in the same flow direction, and in fact, since the dust suction opening 111 and the air outlet 113 are often oriented in opposite directions in actual production, for example, the dust suction opening 111 is generally oriented downward to facilitate sucking dust on the surface of a bottom surface, a table top, etc., and in order to facilitate exhausting, the air outlet 113 is often oriented upward or sideways. Thus, in order to accommodate the design of the suction opening 111, the suction flow channel in this embodiment is arranged substantially vertically or at a slight angle to the vertical in the upstream section, while in order to accommodate the design of the air outlet 113, the suction chamber 11 is arranged substantially horizontally or at a slight angle to the horizontal in the downstream section.
Of course, in order to achieve the dust suction function, other structures are required in addition to the operation of the various components in the floor brush 1, and the dust collector further comprises a fan 7 and a separation module 8 for separating the water and dust mixture, wherein the separation module 8 is positioned between the floor brush 1 and the fan 7 along the airflow path, the inlet end of the separation module 8 is in fluid communication with the outlet end of the floor brush 1, and the outlet end of the separation module 8 is in fluid communication with the inlet end of the fan 7.
In the present embodiment, the brush head 14 is used for cleaning an object to be cleaned, and the brush head 14 is disposed at the suction opening 111 of the suction chamber 11. The brush head 14 may be a fixed brush or may be a rolling brush or other movable brush, and in this embodiment, a disc brush is used to implement cleaning in a rotating manner, and the rotation axis of the disc brush extends vertically to ensure the maximum contact area with the surface to be cleaned, so as to further improve the cleaning effect.
In this embodiment, the connecting member 2 is used to connect the hand-held portion of the cleaner to the floor brush 1, the top of the connecting member is provided with a pipe opening 21 with an upward opening for inserting the bottom of the hand-held portion, the opening of the pipe opening 21 is the air outlet 113, the wheel assembly 3 is mounted at the rear of the floor brush 1 and is provided with a supporting wheel 31 capable of rotating relative to the floor brush 1, the rotation axis of the supporting wheel 31 is perpendicular to the travelling direction of the floor brush 1, the bottom of the connecting member 2 is restrained on the floor brush 1 in a back-and-forth swinging manner, the power input end of the wheel assembly 3 is connected to the position adjacent to the bottom of the connecting member 2, and then moves up and down relative to the floor brush 1 under the back-and-forth swinging action of the bottom of the connecting member 2, and the bottom wall of the floor brush 1 is inclined from back to front to back in a downward moving state of the wheel assembly 3, thereby forming a first gap 1a for dust to enter between the bottom wall of the floor brush 1 and the floor surface to be cleaned.
Specifically, in the present embodiment, the floor brush 1 has a housing 12, a mounting cavity 1c is formed in the rear hollow of the housing 12, one wheel assembly 3 is correspondingly arranged on each of two sides of the travelling direction of the floor brush 1, the wheel assembly 3 comprises a wheel seat 33 positioned in the mounting cavity 1c and a mounting shaft 32 connected to the wheel seat 33, the mounting shaft 32 is at least partially leaked outside the housing 12, and a supporting wheel 31 is assembled on the mounting shaft 32, wherein the bottom wall of the mounting cavity 1c is provided with two guide ribs 13 extending along the connecting piece 2, the two guide ribs 13 are oppositely arranged on two sides of the swinging direction of the connecting piece 2, and correspondingly, the two sides of the swinging direction of the connecting piece 2 are provided with guide parts 22 which extend laterally and are matched with the corresponding guide ribs 13. The guide portion 22 is a boss protruding from the outer wall surface of the connector 2, the guide rib 13 is provided with a notch portion 14 with an upward opening, the boss is accommodated in the notch portion 14, and the length of the notch portion 14 in the swinging direction of the connector 2 is larger than the diameter of the boss.
In order to further ensure that the swinging energy of the connecting piece 2 drives the wheel assembly 3 to move up and down, the boss is further provided with a first transmission part 221, and for each first transmission part 221, the wheel seat 33 corresponding to the boss is provided with a second transmission part 222 matched with the first transmission part, and the wheel seat 33 and the supporting wheel 31 are linked with the connecting piece 2 through the cooperation of the first transmission part 221 and the second transmission part 222. The connecting piece 2 in this embodiment is substantially cylindrical, the first transmission portion 221 is a protruding column disposed on the boss and extending laterally, the second transmission portion 222 is a guiding groove disposed on a corresponding side wall of the wheel seat 33 and extending along the swinging direction of the connecting piece 2, and the protruding column is slidably matched with the guiding groove. The guide grooves are arranged obliquely from front to back and upward, and the wheel mount 33 and the supporting wheel 31 are in a downward moving state in a state where the connecting member 2 swings to the front end of the guide groove where the boss slides.
In this embodiment, the up-and-down movement of the wheel assembly 3 does not directly switch the corresponding generating state of the cleaner, but is realized by the rollers 4 arranged on two sides of the bottom of the floor brush 1, and the two rollers 4 are arranged adjacent to the dust collection cavity 11, so that the bottom wall of the floor brush 1 is inclined from front to back to down in the running state, thereby forming a second gap 1b between the dust collection cavity 11 and the floor to be cleaned, and the existence of the rollers 4 is equivalent to the action of a rocker, so that the cleaning state of the whole cleaner can be conveniently switched when the wheel assembly 3 moves up and down.
In this embodiment, in order to ensure that the driving wheel has a certain buffer, and prevent the wheel assembly from moving up and down too suddenly, the wheel assembly further comprises an elastic member 5, wherein one end of the elastic member 5 abuts against the bottom wall of the mounting cavity 1c, the other end abuts against the wheel seat 33, and in a state that the wheel seat 33 is moved down, the elastic member 5 is in an energy storage state and acts on the wheel seat 33, so that the wheel seat 33 always has a tendency to move up and return. Specifically, the wheel seat 33 is provided with a containing cavity 331 with a downward opening at the front and rear sides, a positioning column 332 extending upward and matching with the containing cavity 331 is provided at the bottom of the housing 12 at a corresponding position, and the elastic member 5 is a spring disposed in the containing cavity 331, and two ends of the spring respectively prop against the top wall of the containing cavity 331 and the upper end of the positioning column 332.
The term "fluid communication" as used herein refers to a spatial positional relationship between two components or parts (hereinafter collectively referred to as a first part and a second part, respectively), that is, a fluid (gas, liquid, or a mixture of both) can flow along a flow path from the first part to the second part or/and be transported to the second part, or the first part and the second part may be directly communicated with each other, or the first part and the second part may be indirectly communicated with each other through at least one third party, and the third party may be a fluid channel such as a pipe, a channel, a conduit, a flow guiding member, a hole, a groove, or the like, or a chamber allowing the fluid to flow through, or a combination thereof.
Furthermore, directional terms, such as "front", "rear", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "side", "top", "bottom", etc., are used in the description and claims of the present invention to describe various example structural parts and elements of the present invention, but are used herein for convenience of description only and are determined based on the example orientations shown in the drawings. Because the disclosed embodiments of the invention may be arranged in a variety of orientations, the directional terminology is used for purposes of illustration and is in no way limiting, such as "upper" and "lower" are not necessarily limited to being in a direction opposite or coincident with the direction of gravity.