JP2006254978A - Rotary rotor of floor nozzle for vacuum cleaner - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rotary rotor of a floor nozzle for a vacuum cleaner having high dust sweeping effect and sucking effect by grounding brushes on a cleaning surface at all times during the rotation of the rotor, bringing many brushes into contact with a cleaning floor surface by one rotation and increasing the area of the brushes in contact with the cleaning floor surface as a result. <P>SOLUTION: As means adopted to the rotary rotor of the floor nozzle for the vacuum cleaner of this invention, a groove part opened to the outer peripheral surface side is provided around the rotor having the function of a core material formed into a roughly columnar shape, the groove part is formed into a helical shape twisted exceeding 360 degrees along the outer periphery of the rotor, and by mounting a member for the brush on the groove part, the member for the brush is also formed into the helical shape twisted exceeding 360 degrees along the outer periphery of the rotor. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a rotary rotor used in a floor nozzle for a vacuum cleaner.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, various tools and instruments that are attached in a state where a brush, a sheet material, or the like is twisted around a core material and that are rotated around the core material have been developed. For example, a flat brush portion 4 formed by forming a plurality of brush bristles 7 sandwiched between a plurality of core wires 5 and bundled in a binding portion 3 into a disk shape, and a plurality of brush bristles on a plurality of core wires 5 6 and the twisted brush portion 2 formed in a spiral shape by being twisted in a state where the core wire 5 is bundled, and the flat brush portion 4 is located at the tip of the tool body 10; There is a removal tool such as a flash in which an abrasive 16 is attached around the binding portion 3 in a removal tool such as a flash in which the twisting brush portion 2 is positioned across the binding portion 3 of the flat brush portion 4 (patent) (Refer to the column of means for solving the reference 1).

  According to the removal tool such as the flash, if the flat brush portion 4 of the removal tool is inserted into the spool hole of the workpiece while being rotated, the flash of the cross holes and the spool hole can be efficiently removed.

  Further, a predetermined amount of abrasive grains is mixed with synthetic resin to form a sheet material 2, and this sheet material 2 is interposed between an even number of core materials 3, and the core material 3 is twisted integrally. Thus, there is a polishing tool that is sandwiched and fixed to the sheet material 2 (Patent Document 2).

  According to this polishing tool, it is possible to polish and grind the inner surface of the pipe and the inner surface of the hole of the article by connecting and rotating the rod-shaped portion composed of only the core material to an appropriate rotation drive shaft. There is.

  However, in any of the prior arts, as a method of fixing to the core material of the brush or the sheet material, since it is only sandwiched between the wire-like core materials, the brush or the sheet material is easily removed from the core material. This tendency was particularly remarkable when the twist was loose. In other words, in the conventional technique, the twist amount depends on the fixing strength of the core material, and the optimum twist amount is determined according to the original function of the tool, for example, the function of removing a burr or the like and the function of polishing. I could not set it freely.

  Moreover, since it is necessary to twist a core material in order to fix a brush or a sheet material to a core material, you have to use a soft material to the extent that it can be always twisted to a core material. Therefore, the strength of the core material is low, the core material is easily bent when using a tool, and the durability is low.

  On the other hand, as a rotary roll as a cleaning tool, the scraping body 16 includes a scraping portion 16A (brush portion) and a tire portion 16B, and the scraping diameter (brush diameter) of the scraping portion 16A is the same as that of the tire portion 16B. Some tires are larger than the tire diameter (see paragraph number “0007” of Patent Document 3).

According to this cleaning tool, the scraping body 16 is rotatably supported on the entire frame 15 via the rotating shaft 17, and the contact rotating body 18 formed of a roll body is disposed on the rear portion of the frame 15 via the rotating shaft 19. By rotatingly supporting and arranging the scraping body 16 and the contact rotating body 18 in parallel (paragraph number “0007” in Patent Document 3), the contact rotating body 18 comes into contact with the adhesive roll 21 and the adhesive There is an effect that the roll 21 can be reliably rotated and rotated and can be reliably adsorbed by the new adsorbing surface of the adhesive roll 21 in contact with the scraping body (see paragraph 0030 of Patent Document 3).
In addition, in a cleaning tool having a rotating brush (rotating roll) supported so as to be rotatable about a horizontal rotation axis, a driving device that rotationally drives the rotating brush, and dust that has been swept up by the rotation of the rotating brush A dust container, a wiping material support bottom that supports the wiping material so that it can be pressed against the surface to be cleaned, and a wiping material that is detachably fixed in a state where the wiping material is supported on the wiping material support bottom The wiping material support bottom is provided on the side of the rotating brush, and the rotating brush supports the wiping material on the wiping material supporting bottom and is brought into contact with the surface to be cleaned. In the state, at least a lower end portion of the rotating brush is supported so as to be in contact with the surface to be cleaned, and has a separating portion that separates the wiping material supported by the wiping material support bottom portion and the rotating brush. There is something to do Patent Document 4 paragraph number see "0009").

  According to this cleaning tool, when a relatively large dust such as the floor surface to be cleaned is swept up by the rotation of the rotating brush and accommodated in the dust accommodating portion, the wiping material supported on the wiping material support bottom is almost simultaneously removed from the floor surface. The floor surface or the like can be wiped while being pressed. As a result, the part where relatively large dust that can wipe down relatively fine dust on the floor surface is wiped with a wiping material. Can be efficiently and reliably performed (see paragraph “0010”).

Since the rotating rolls described in Patent Document 3 and Patent Document 4 are used in a manual method with a slow rotation, each drawing (Patent Document 3 (FIGS. 1 and 2), Patent Document 4 (FIG. 1 to 8), the core material is thinly formed, so that these conventional rotating rolls are not so high in accuracy of rotation balance, and have a strength that can withstand high-speed rotation. However, in the case of a rotating roll that is rotated at a high speed like an electric vacuum cleaner, it has a high rotation balance and a high strength brush, and the core material is also more What had high intensity | strength was required.
JP-A-9-191934 JP-A-5-245765 JP 2003-320322 A JP 2003-111702 A

  Therefore, the present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and it is difficult to bend by using a hard core material, has excellent durability, and the brush is difficult to come off from the core material. It aims at providing the rotation rotor of the floor nozzle for vacuum cleaners.

  Furthermore, the brush can always be grounded to the cleaning surface during rotation of the rotor, and many brushes can be brought into contact with the cleaning floor surface in one rotation, resulting in a large brush area in contact with the cleaning floor surface. Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a rotary rotor for a floor nozzle for a vacuum cleaner having a high dust sweeping effect and a high suction effect.

  It is another object of the present invention to provide a rotary rotor for a floor nozzle for a vacuum cleaner that can reduce the rotational friction between the brush and the floor surface and reduce the torque required to rotate the rotor.

  In addition, the weight center of gravity at the time of rotation is set to the center of the shaft as much as possible, and the pressure applied to the rotor from the floor surface is made constant so that the runout caused by rotation can be minimized. The object is to provide a rotating rotor.

In order to solve the problems as described above, the means adopted by the rotary rotor of the cleaning floor nozzle of the present invention is opened to the outer peripheral surface around the rotor having the function of a core formed in a substantially cylindrical shape. A groove portion is provided, and the groove portion is formed in a spiral shape that is twisted over 360 degrees along the outer periphery of the rotor, and the brush member is mounted along the outer periphery of the rotor by attaching the brush member to the groove portion. It is formed in a spiral shape that is twisted beyond the degree. In other words, the brush member mounted in one groove is provided in a spiral shape over one rotation over the entire length of the rotor.

  By adopting this configuration, the brush member is always present on one of the outer circumferences of the rotor over the entire length of the rotor, and the brush member is always brought into contact with the cleaning floor regardless of the rotation position of the rotor. Will be able to. As a result, the contact area of the brush with the cleaning floor surface can be increased, and the cleaning effect can be improved. In addition, since the brush is present more than one rotation on the outer periphery of the rotor, the balance of the center of gravity of the rotating rotor of the floor nozzle for cleaning can be improved and the runout during rotation can be suppressed.

  As long as the amount of twist of the groove portion exceeds 360 degrees, the range is not limited. However, the length of the rotary rotor generally used for a vacuum cleaner or a cleaning floor by a brush member to be mounted Considering the surface cleaning effect, it is preferably set at 540 to 1080 degrees, more preferably 720 to 900 degrees. Any number of groove portions may be provided in the rotor, but preferably 2 or more and 8 or less, more preferably 3 or more and 6 or less, the dust discharge effect and suction described below. The effect balance is improved.

  Further, the cross-sectional shape of the groove portion is not limited to a triangular shape or a circular shape, but the opening on the outer peripheral surface may be provided narrower than the base portion of the brush described later. If it provides in this way, it can prevent that a brush remove | deviates from opening of a rotor.

  The brush member is constituted by a base portion inserted into the groove portion of the rotor and a member having a sweeping effect by directly contacting the floor surface such as a brush piece or a blade piece attached to the base portion. The cross-sectional shape of the base portion is not limited, but the base portion is formed to have a width larger than the opening width of the groove portion so as not to come out from the opening of the groove portion. On the other hand, the member attached to the base is not limited, and may be a brush piece, a blade piece, or any other shape having a sweeping effect. In the case of using brush pieces, it is possible to use the brush pieces in which the bristles of the brush pieces are continuously arranged at a certain density without any gap in the longitudinal direction. If it provides in this way, the front-end | tip of a bristle will be uniformly distributed over the circumferential direction and the full length direction in the outer periphery of a rotary rotor. The larger the torsion angle of the rotating rotor, the more uniform and the difference between the sparse and dense portions of the bristles decreases. Along with this, the contact resistance between the brush bristles and the floor surface is uniformly dispersed, so the load on the rotating rotor is reduced. In addition, the dust on the floor surface can be scraped up uniformly.

  Furthermore, in the present invention, a part of the total length of the groove can be provided with a low twist portion having a low twist relative to the twist at a portion having a twist of 360 degrees or more. The rotary rotor of the floor nozzle for a vacuum cleaner has a higher dust sweeping effect as the contact area with the floor surface increases. However, it has been found by the present inventor that when the dust collected by the rotary rotor is sucked up by suction of a vacuum cleaner, the smaller the area of the brush member with respect to the rotor, the higher the efficiency. Therefore, the present invention provides a place where the area of the brush member is small by forming a place where the degree of twisting of the groove portion is low in a part of the entire length of the rotor as a place for sucking up the dust, while maintaining a high sweeping effect. It is possible to minimize the reduction in the suction effect.

  In this case, the range of the twist angle of the portion having a low twist degree is not limited, and may be 360 degrees or less, or may be provided parallel to the rotor without being twisted at all. Moreover, you may provide a twist direction reversely.

  Furthermore, the low twist portion is preferably provided at the center of the rotor. This is because the suction port of the vacuum cleaner is normally provided in the middle of the rotor, and therefore, providing the low twist portion at the portion corresponding to the suction port has the highest dust suction effect.

  In the first aspect of the present invention, the groove portion and the brush member attached to the groove portion are formed in a spiral shape that is twisted over 360 degrees along the outer periphery of the rotor. Even at the rotational position, one brush member formed in one groove portion can always be brought into contact with the cleaning floor surface, and a high dust sweeping effect can be obtained.

  Further, since the brush contact area can be increased by bringing many brush members into contact with the cleaning floor surface, the dust sweeping effect can be further enhanced.

  In addition, since a single brush member is provided around the entire circumference and the amount of brushes present around the brush is large, the center of gravity during rotation of the rotor can be stabilized, and runout during high-speed rotation can occur. Can be minimized.

  Furthermore, since the inclination angle of the brush member with respect to the longitudinal direction of the rotor is increased, the angle of the brush with respect to the cleaning floor surface when the rotor is rotated can be made close to the vertical direction. Therefore, the frictional resistance between the cleaning floor and the brush can be reduced, and the rotor can be rotated with a small torque.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, the groove portion and the brush member are formed in a spiral shape that is twisted over 360 degrees on the outer periphery of the rotor, and one of the groove portion and the brush member. The part is provided with a low twist part with a low torsional degree relative to the twist degree in other parts, so that an effective sweeping effect is exhibited in a part with a high torsion degree, while the vacuum cleaner in the low twist part. The effect of sucking up dust by inhalation can be maintained high.

  Furthermore, according to the invention of claim 3 of the present invention, since the low twist portion is provided at the center of the rotor, the low twist portion is located at a position closest to the intake port of the cleaner, which is higher. It is possible to provide trash suction efficiency.

    DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  1 is a perspective view of a rotary rotor of a cleaning floor nozzle according to a first embodiment of the present invention. Reference numeral 1 denotes a rotary rotor of a vacuum cleaner floor nozzle, 2 denotes a rotor, 3 denotes a brush member, and 4 denotes a groove. FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the brush member according to the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is a perspective view illustrating a modification of the brush member according to the first embodiment.

  A rotary rotor 1 for a floor nozzle for a vacuum cleaner according to the present invention includes a rotor 2 and a brush member 3. The rotor 2 is made of metal, and is provided with six grooves 4 evenly on the outer peripheral surface so as to have openings on the outer peripheral surface. Each groove portion 4 is formed in a spiral shape having a twist angle of 720 degrees on the outer peripheral surface. Of course, in Example 1, the twist amount is set to 720 degrees, but the angle is not limited as long as the angle exceeds 360 degrees. The groove part 4 is formed so that a uniform cross section is formed over the entire length and the outer peripheral opening is narrower than the inside.

  The brush member 3 is composed of a base 5 and a brush piece 6 in which fibers made of synthetic resin are attached to the base 5 in a brush shape. The base portion 5 is provided on a cross-section of a ridge shape that is substantially the same as the cross section of the groove portion 4, can be fitted into the groove portion 4, and cannot be removed from the opening. The shape of the base portion 5 is not limited to the shape of the present embodiment, and may be any shape as long as it has a width larger than the opening width of the groove portion of the rotor. For example, the cross section may be formed in a rectangular shape having the same width as the width inside the groove or a width larger than the inside of the groove. Then, the base portion 5 of the brush member 3 is inserted into the groove portion 4 from the end surface, and the brush member 3 is mounted on the outer peripheral surface of the rotor 2 so as to have a spiral shape having a twist angle of 720 degrees. Finally, although not shown, brackets and bearings integrated with the rotary shaft are attached to both ends of the rotary rotor 1 so as to be rotatably attached to the suction port body of the cleaner.

  A modification of the brush member 3 is shown in FIG. The brush member 13 has a base 15 with a blade piece 16 formed of a soft synthetic resin in a flat plate shape. The brush member 13 can also be formed in a spiral shape having a twist angle of 720 degrees on the outer peripheral surface of the rotor 2 (not shown) by being mounted in the groove portion 4 in the same manner as described above.

  According to the rotary rotor of the floor nozzle for a vacuum cleaner in Example 1 described above, the base portions 5 and 15 cannot be removed from the opening of the groove portion 4, so the brush pieces 6 and blade pieces 16 attached to the base portions 5 and 15. Will not fall out of the rotor 2. Therefore, as long as the twist angle of the groove 4 and the brush members 3 and 13 exceeds 360 degrees, it can be freely set without considering the drop-off of the brush piece 6 and the blade piece 16.

Further, since the rotor 2 is not fixed by sandwiching and twisting the brush piece 6 and the blade piece 16, it can be manufactured using a hard metal as its material. Therefore, a necessary and sufficient strength can be secured as a core, bending due to use can be prevented, and durability can be improved.
Furthermore, different brush members can be mounted depending on the plurality of groove portions 4 of the rotor. By using multiple types of brush members, brush members having different sweeping effects can be brought into contact with each other when rotating, and even with the same rotary nozzle of a vacuum cleaner floor nozzle, different sweeping effects can be applied to the floor surface. Can be demonstrated.

  Further, if the rotating rotor of the floor nozzle for cleaning of the first embodiment is used, one brush member 3 mounted in one groove is twisted 720 degrees. The surface can be contacted. Since the rotary rotor of the cleaning floor nozzle of Example 1 has six brush pieces 6 attached to the entire circumference, the brush pieces 6 can be brought into contact with the floor surface at a maximum of 13 locations. Accordingly, the number of places where the brush contacts the floor surface can be increased, and the total area in contact with the floor surface increases, thereby providing an effective sweeping effect. In addition, since the pressure applied to the rotor from the floor surface can be distributed over the entire length of the rotor by bringing many brush pieces 6 into contact with the floor surface, uniform pressure can be applied to the rotor, minimizing runout during rotation. Can be suppressed.

  Further, the brush member 3 in contact with the floor surface has a larger inclination angle with respect to the longitudinal direction of the rotor 2 than in the case where the twisting angle is 360 degrees or less. That is, if the torsion angle is large, the contact state of the tip of the brush piece 6 with the floor surface can be made to approach point contact from side contact, and the individual contact area between the floor surface and the brush piece 6 is reduced. In addition, the arrangement of the brush members 3 can be uniformly dispersed in both the circumferential direction and the full length direction. Therefore, the load from the floor surface with respect to the rotation of the rotary rotor can be reduced. As a result, the current consumption can be reduced although the rotational speed can be increased. Since this inventor performed experiment for demonstrating this effect, it shows below.

  In this experiment, in addition to the floor nozzle for a vacuum cleaner according to the first embodiment, Examples 1a, 1b, and 1c having twist amounts of 540 degrees, 900 degrees, and 1080 degrees, and the twist that is a conventional product are used. Using Reference Examples 1 and 2, which are floor nozzles for cleaning of 180 degrees and 360 degrees, each floor nozzle for vacuum cleaner is attached to the suction port of the vacuum cleaner, and is slid on a glass plate and a carpet with a cut pile of 6 mm. In each case, the rotational speed of each rotor and the current value of the vacuum cleaner were measured.

  Table 1 shows the experimental data. Moreover, the graph showing about "the relationship between a twist angle and a rotor rotational speed" and "the relationship between a twist angle and the electric current value of a cleaner" is shown in FIG. 6, FIG. 6 is a graph when the glass plate is slid, and FIG. 7 is a graph when the glass plate is slid. According to this table and graph, the rotor rotation speed increases as the groove twist angle increases (see graphs 1 and 3), and the motor current consumption decreases as the groove twist angle increases ( (See graphs 2 and 4).

  FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the rotary rotor 11 of the cleaning floor nozzle according to the second embodiment. In the rotary rotor 11 of the cleaning floor nozzle according to the second embodiment, the groove portion and the low twist portion (27 of 27) in which the twisting amount of the brush member 23 attached to the groove portion is lower than that of the other portion (17 portion). Part) is provided. The portion 17 (highly twisted portion) is provided so as to have a twist amount similar to that of the first embodiment, that is, 720 degrees when it is assumed that the entire length of the rotor is twisted. On the other hand, the portion 27 is formed with a twist amount of 360 degrees when converted to the full length. In the second embodiment, the low twist portion 27 is provided at the center of the entire length of the rotor, but is not limited to the center.

  If the low twist portion (27) is provided in this way, the high twist portion (17) can effectively remove the dust on the floor surface, and the low twist portion (27) can efficiently perform the suction of the vacuum cleaner. A suction effect can be obtained.

  FIG. 5 shows the rotary rotor 21 of the floor nozzle for cleaning in the third embodiment. The rotary rotor 21 of the cleaning floor nozzle according to the third embodiment has a low twist portion (47) in which the amount of twist of the groove portion and the brush member 33 attached to the groove portion is lower than that of the other portion (37 portion). Is provided in the center of the entire length of the rotor, and the twisting directions of the high twist portions (37) on both sides are opposite to each other. The part 37 is formed in the same amount of twist as in the first embodiment. On the other hand, the portion 47 is formed with a twist amount of 360 degrees when converted to the full length.

  According to the rotary rotor 21 of the floor nozzle for cleaning described in the third embodiment, the low twist portion is provided as in the second embodiment. Therefore, the high twist portion (37) can effectively sweep out dust on the floor surface. In addition, the low twist portion (47) makes it possible to obtain an efficient suction effect by suction of the cleaner. Furthermore, if it is used in such a rotation that the front of FIG. 5 is in the upward direction, dust can be swept to the center by the high twist portions (37) on both sides, and the dust can be collected by the low twist portion (47). Can do.

  In addition, although it does not mention in particular in each Example about the manufacturing method of the rotation rotor of the floor nozzle for cleaning by this invention, it is not restricted to the twist extrusion molding which is a conventional manufacturing method, The structure of this invention can be produced. If possible, various manufacturing methods can be adopted.

  It goes without saying that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various embodiments can be adopted without departing from the spirit of the present invention. For example, the cross-sectional shape of the groove portion and the cross-sectional shape of the base portion are not limited to the embodiments, and various shapes can be adopted as long as the shape does not deviate from the opening. It is not limited to one piece.

1 is a perspective view of a rotary rotor of a cleaning floor nozzle according to Embodiment 1. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a brush member according to Embodiment 1. FIG. It is a perspective view which shows the modification of the member for brushes concerning Example 1. FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a rotary rotor of a cleaning floor nozzle according to Embodiment 2. FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a rotary rotor of a cleaning floor nozzle according to Embodiment 3. FIG. Graph (on the glass plate) showing "Relationship between twisting angle and rotor speed" and "Relationship between twisting angle and current value of vacuum cleaner" of rotary rotor of floor nozzle for vacuum cleaner Graph showing the "Relationship between twisting angle and rotor speed" and "Relationship between twisting angle and current value of vacuum cleaner" for rotary rotor of vacuum cleaner floor nozzle (on cut pile)

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Rotating rotor of floor nozzle for vacuum cleaner 2 Rotor 3 Brush member 4 Groove 5 Base 6 Brush piece 11 Rotating rotor of cleaning floor nozzle 13 Brush member 15 Base 16 Blade piece 21 Rotating rotor of cleaning floor nozzle 23 For brush Member 33 Brush member

Claims (3)

A rotor having a groove portion opened in the outer peripheral surface, and a brush member attached to the groove portion,
The rotary rotor of a floor nozzle for a vacuum cleaner, wherein the groove and the brush member are formed in a spiral shape that is twisted over 360 degrees on the outer periphery of the rotor. A rotor having a groove portion opened in the outer peripheral surface, and a brush member attached to the groove portion,
The groove and the brush member are formed in a spiral shape that is twisted over 360 degrees on the outer periphery of the rotor, and a portion that is twisted over 360 degrees on a part of the groove and the brush member A rotary rotor for a floor nozzle for a vacuum cleaner, characterized in that a low twist portion having a twist degree lower than the twist degree is provided.   The rotary rotor of the floor nozzle for a vacuum cleaner according to claim 2, wherein the low twist portion is provided at the center of the rotor.

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