EP2384679B1 - Dispositif d'affichage pour un filtre, et aspirateur avec d'un tel filtre comme filtre à air sortant - Google Patents

Dispositif d'affichage pour un filtre, et aspirateur avec d'un tel filtre comme filtre à air sortant Download PDF

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EP2384679B1
EP2384679B1 EP11401060.6A EP11401060A EP2384679B1 EP 2384679 B1 EP2384679 B1 EP 2384679B1 EP 11401060 A EP11401060 A EP 11401060A EP 2384679 B1 EP2384679 B1 EP 2384679B1
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Seyfettin Kara
Monika Seifert
Stefan Tiekötter
Cornelius Wolf
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L9/00—Details or accessories of suction cleaners, e.g. mechanical means for controlling the suction or for effecting pulsating action; Storing devices specially adapted to suction cleaners or parts thereof; Carrying-vehicles specially adapted for suction cleaners
    • A47L9/10—Filters; Dust separators; Dust removal; Automatic exchange of filters
    • A47L9/19—Means for monitoring filtering operation

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  • the invention relates to a display device for a filter, in particular a filter acting as a vacuum cleaner exhaust filter.
  • the display device is provided for displaying a degree of saturation of the filter.
  • the invention relates to a filter with such a display device, that is, a filter combined with a display device or a system comprising the filter and the display device.
  • the invention relates to a vacuum cleaner with such a filter and the use of such a filter as a vacuum cleaner exhaust filter.
  • Vacuum cleaners in particular electric vacuum cleaners in a version as a household vacuum cleaner, work almost exclusively with multi-stage particle filters.
  • a prefilter - preferably designed as a dust bag - and behind an exhaust filter for removing fine dust that still happens to the bag are usually in front of a vacuum cleaner fan provided.
  • the latter takes e.g. nor the abrasion of carbon brushes or the like of the drive motor of the fan.
  • Both filter stages must be replaced as consumables by the user of the vacuum cleaner.
  • a user must be reliably and conveniently signaled when the bag or the exhaust filter must be changed as a result of reaching an upper limit for a filling or saturation.
  • For the dust bag sensors are usually used, which operate on the differential pressure principle.
  • the exhaust filter is known to use an operating time of the filter as a criterion for a required replacement.
  • a time counter is considered, which is reset manually after inserting the exhaust filter by the user and the expiration of a fixed operating time signals the necessary change of the filter.
  • the algorithm for this and necessary operating and display elements are implemented in a vacuum cleaner control or part of the vacuum cleaner control.
  • a vacuum cleaner is known with a display device that indicates the need for a change of the exhaust filter depending on the measurements of a temperature and a pressure sensor.
  • the two sensors are linked together via a control so that when the limit for the temperature at the engine and / or exhaust air flow of the engine is exceeded and at the same time a limit for the negative pressure in the dust filter chamber of the vacuum cleaner is not exceeded, the control operates a filter change indicator.
  • the DE 102 29 796 describes a filter with a temperature-dependent integrating consumption indicator.
  • the color of the indicator changes depending on the temperature always when the vacuum cleaner is operated for a long time.
  • the DE 602 05 753 T describes time-dependent consumption indicators that must be activated by the user by opening a fluid store. A colored indicator liquid diffuses into an absorbent material in the consumption indicator, which then discolors over time and thus represents a measure of the useful life.
  • the operating time as a criterion for a required filter change does not take into account or not yet optimally an actual load situation of the filter, because the pure, linear time sequence is not able to represent the actual and over time varying usage behavior.
  • a filter in particular a vacuum cleaner exhaust filter, with means for generating a consumption or saturation-compliant filter change signal.
  • a due to thermal expansion mechanically operable filter change indicator is provided in a display device for a filter, in particular a vacuum cleaner exhaust filter.
  • the operation of the display device that is, a filter that acts as Staubsaugerabluftfilter, during operation of the vacuum cleaner, resulting heat, in particular exhaust heat, is a good measure of a useful life and type of the filter, so that from a thermal expansion of a consumption and / or saturable filter change signal is derivable.
  • a derivation operable due to thermal expansion filter change indicator is provided for such a derivation operable due to thermal expansion filter change indicator.
  • the filter change indicator can, for. B. be read by the operator and thus acts as an optical signal for a necessary filter change to the user.
  • a filter of the type described here and hereinafter is, in particular, a vacuum cleaner exhaust filter, that is to say a filter which is arranged in the exhaust air flow of the suction fan of an electric vacuum cleaner, which is e.g. acts as a particulate matter or hygiene filter and is sometimes referred to as a blow-out or post-filter.
  • the display device for actuating the filter change indicator due to thermal expansion comprises an actuator that includes a heat-expandable medium.
  • the actuating element is flowed together with the display device of the air to be filtered, so that during operation results in a heating, which leads to a thermal expansion of the existing medium in the actuator.
  • This thermal expansion is converted by the actuator into a mechanical actuation of the filter change indicator.
  • Such an actuator is simple and low maintenance despite the mechanical effect.
  • the actuating element comprises an actuating lever which is movable with thermal expansion of the medium.
  • the actuating lever is a particularly simple way for a mechanical contact between the actuating element and the filter change indicator, so that its actuation can be effected by the actuating lever of the actuating element.
  • a heat-expandable medium for the actuator wax comes into consideration. Such a medium reacts sufficiently for the intended application with a thermal expansion to a temperature increase.
  • a heat-expandable medium such as wax or the like is sufficiently viscous, so that z. B. for a movable with the wax at thermal expansion operating lever no special precautions for its positioning and adjustment are provided.
  • a filter change indicator is preferably a counter or the like into consideration.
  • a counter as a filter change indicator, this can register each actuation by the actuator and provide a display of a number of actuations above a predetermined or predeterminable threshold value, which alerts a user to the need for filter change.
  • the counter can assume a position acting as a change mark, wherein the counter is configured so that the change mark adjusts after a predetermined number of actuation operations by the actuator.
  • the counter can be configured as an up-counting or down-counting counter.
  • the counter In the delivery condition of the display device or a filter combined with such a display device, the counter is set to a start configuration correlated with the filter or can be set to such a start configuration.
  • the counter counts up or down on each actuation by the actuator until the counter assumes the position acting as a change mark.
  • the indication of the change flag by the counter then acts as a signal to the user for a required filter change.
  • the display device of the type described here and below can be combined with basically any filters, so that the invention accordingly also relates to a filter with a display device described here and below.
  • filter is especially a so-called vacuum cleaner exhaust filter into consideration.
  • the invention thus also relates to a vacuum cleaner with such a display device or a vacuum cleaner with a combined with such a display device filter, in particular a vacuum cleaner exhaust filter with a display device according to the invention.
  • the exhaust air flow of the suction fan is a good measure of the operating mode and the operating time of the vacuum cleaner and thus the load on the filter, so that a position of the filter change indicator after a number of actuation operations by the actuator information about a saturation of the filter or possibly already reached Saturation limit of the filter.
  • the invention finally also relates to a use of a filter with a display device, as described here and below, as a vacuum cleaner exhaust filter in the exhaust air stream of a suction fan of an electric vacuum cleaner.
  • Fig. 1 shows a vacuum cleaner 10 known per se, which has a dust chamber 12 with there attachable dust bag 14.
  • a dust bag 14 supplied dust via a suction hose 16 is collected.
  • the dust 18 in turn is transported by the suction flow 20, the blower 22 (vacuum cleaner fan) generated.
  • the dust chamber 12 is closed by means of a dust chamber cover 24. Finer components of the dust 18 that pass through the dust bag 14, pass through the exhaust air or the suction flow 20 of the blower 22 in a vacuum cleaner exhaust filter 26th
  • the vacuum cleaner 10 comprises a control computer 28, which is in operative connection with a vacuum cleaner 10 arranged on the operating and display unit 30. About the signals of the control and display unit 30, the suction power of the blower 22 and thus a quantity of recordable dust 18 is set by the control computer 28 through the vacuum cleaner 10. Further, in individual embodiments of the known vacuum cleaner 10, the control and display unit 30 indicates a change of the vacuum cleaner exhaust filter 26 which becomes necessary as a function of z. In a vacuum cleaner 10 with such functionality after the replacement of the vacuum cleaner exhaust filter 26 via the control and display unit 30 of the operating time counter is reset.
  • Fig. 2 shows an embodiment of a display device 40 in a with a filter 42 shown only partially, for. B. a vacuum cleaner exhaust filter 26 ( Fig. 1 ), combined configuration.
  • the filter 42 is a so-called HEPA filter, which comprises an activated carbon layer 44 on a filter inlet side and a filter medium 46 following this.
  • the display device 40 is integrated into the filter 42 so that it laterally adjoins the filter medium 46. Any other position is just as conceivable for the display device 40, z. As a surrounded on all sides by the filter medium 46 position.
  • the display device 40 includes as a heat-expensible filter change indicator 48 a counter.
  • the operation of the filter change indicator 48 is carried out with an actuating element 50. This includes for actuating the filter change indicator 48 due to thermal expansion of a heat-expandable medium 52, z. B. wax.
  • an actuating lever 54 is held, which with appropriate thermal expansion of the heat-expandable medium 52 the Filter change indicator 48 is actuated.
  • a corresponding thereto and actuatable by the actuating lever 54 of the actuating element 50 counteracting lever is shown for actuating the filter change indicator 48.
  • the filter change indicator 48 is shown as a counter and, more particularly, it is a mechanical counter that performs a count step upon each actuation by the actuator 50. Notwithstanding the illustrated label of the counter with Arabic numerals is also a use of a color code or the like into consideration, so that z. B. when reaching a predetermined or predetermined counter reading of the counter at a functioning as a change display 56 visible side three, or depending on the number of rollers of the counter, one or more red fields are, which represent a filter change signal for the user of the filter 42 in combination.
  • a display device 40 for a filter 42 in particular a vacuum cleaner exhaust filter 26, with a due to thermal expansion mechanically actuated filter change indicator 48 is given, so that the thermal expansion as a measure of the type of use and duration can be used by the filter 42 and with due to such thermal expansion of a user perceptible signal, in particular in the form of an optical indication generated, the information about a degree of saturation or possibly already reached saturation upper limit of the filter 42.

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Claims (10)

  1. Dispositif d'affichage (40) pour un filtre (42), en particulier un filtre à air sortant d'aspirateur (26) comportant un indicateur de changement de filtre (48), caractérisé en ce que l'indicateur de changement de filtre (48) est actionnable mécaniquement par dilatation thermique.
  2. Dispositif d'affichage (40) selon la revendication 1, comportant un élément d'actionnement (50) pour actionner l'indicateur de changement de filtre (48) par dilatation thermique, l'actionneur (50) comportant un support thermiquement expansible (52).
  3. Dispositif d'affichage (40) selon la revendication 2, dans lequel l'élément d'actionnement (50) comprend un levier d'actionnement (54) qui est mobile en cas de dilatation thermique du support (52).
  4. Dispositif d'affichage (40) selon la revendication 2 ou 3, comportant une cire comme support (52).
  5. Dispositif d'affichage (40) selon l'une des revendications précédentes, comportant un compteur en tant qu'indicateur de changement de filtre (48).
  6. Dispositif d'affichage (40) selon l'une des revendications 2 à 4 et et la revendication 5, dans lequel le compteur peut prendre une position servant de marquage de changement, et le compteur étant configuré de sorte que le marquage de changement s'adapte après un nombre prédéterminé d'opérations d'actionnement par l'élément d'actionnement (50).
  7. Filtre (42) comportant un dispositif d'affichage (40) selon l'une des revendications précédentes.
  8. Aspirateur (10) comportant un filtre (42) selon la revendication 7.
  9. Aspirateur (10) selon la revendication 8, dans lequel le filtre (42) sert de filtre à air sortant d'aspirateur (26) dans un canal de courant d'air sortant d'un ventilateur d'aspiration compris dans l'aspirateur (10), et la dilatation thermique se produisant pendant le fonctionnement de l'aspirateur (10) par le courant d'air sortant du ventilateur d'aspiration.
  10. Utilisation d'un filtre (42) selon la revendication 7 en tant que filtre à air sortant d'aspirateur (26) dans le courant d'air sortant d'un ventilateur d'aspiration d'un aspirateur électrique (10).
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