An autonomous vacuum cleaner includes an outer housing and a separator assembly that is removably received by the autonomous vacuum cleaner. A portion of the separator assembly defines a portion of at least two walls of the outer housing.

An electric vacuum cleaning apparatus including an autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner that autonomously moves between surfaces to be cleaned and collects dust and a station fluidly connectable to the autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner. The autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner includes: a container body accumulating collected dust, the container body including: a bottom wall including a disposal port; and a disposal lid opening and closing the disposal port. The station unit includes: a dust transfer pipe connected to the disposal port; a secondary dust container accumulating dust; and a secondary electric blower that generates negative suction pressure in the dust transfer pipe via the secondary dust container. At least one irregularly shaped ventilation groove that causes air to flow below the dust within the container body by the negative pressure generated by the secondary electric blower is provided to the inner surface of the bottom wall of the container body.

Disclosed are related to a dust collecting apparatus, a cleaning apparatus, and a method of controlling the cleaning apparatus. The dust collecting apparatus may comprises a dust collecting space configured to collect impurities and a variable body formed to surround the dust collecting space and having one of transparency, shape and color changed by selectively transmitting or reflecting light in response to applied electric power.

A dust collector and a device for beating dust in the same. The dust collector (10) includes: a main body (101) with a clean air outlet (1011); a filter section (102) set at the clean air outlet (1011); and a device for beating dust. The device for beating dust includes: a sliding rail (103) set on the outside surface of the main body (101) and opposite to the clean air outlet (1011); a slider (104) slidably set on the sliding rail (103); a poker rod (105) rotatably set on the slider (104); and a beating dust member (106) used for beating the filter section (102) and set on the poker rod (105).

Provided is a vacuum cleaner including a cleaner body of which a center of gravity is disposed at a rear side further than a rotating center thereof; one pair of moving wheels provided at both side surfaces of the cleaner body and configured to rotatably support the cleaner body and also to be rotated for travelling; and a rear wheel unit provided at a bottom surface of the cleaner body and configured to elastically support the cleaner body at a rear of the pair of moving wheels, wherein the rear wheel unit includes a supporting part rotatably installed at the bottom surface of the cleaner body and rotated in a rotating direction of the cleaner body; an elastic portion configured to extend from one side of the supporting part and to be elastically deformed by being in contact with the bottom surface of the cleaner body when the supporting part is rotated; a rotating member shaft-coupled to the supporting part and installed to be rotatable in a direction intersecting with a rotating direction of the supporting part; and a rear wheel installed at the rotating member and rolled while being in contact with the ground.

Provided is a vacuum cleaner including a base configured to form a lower surface of a cleaner body; moving wheels provided at both side surfaces of the cleaner body and rotated for travel of the vacuum cleaner and also configured to support the cleaner body to be rotated in normal and reverse directions; and a dust container installed at a front of the moving wheels and configured to collect suctioned dust, wherein the base includes a center portion; a first half portion configured to extend to be inclined upward from a front end of the center portion; and a second half portion configured to extend to be inclined upward from a rear end of the center portion, and a rotating center of the moving wheels is located between the first half portion and the second half portion.

Provided is a vacuum cleaner including a cleaner body; a cover member provided at an upper portion of the cleaner body to be opened and closed; a suction hose installed at a front surface of the cover member and configured to suction dust; moving wheels provided on both side surfaces of the cleaner body; a wheel motor assembly connected to the moving wheels and configured to rotate the moving wheels for travel; a plurality of obstacle detecting members disposed at one side of a front of the cover member and configured to detect an obstacle located at a front and/or a side of the cleaner body; and a PCB configured to control an operation of the wheel motor assembly according to a detected signal of the obstacle detecting member.

Provided is a vacuum cleaner including a cleaner body; a moving wheel installed at both side surfaces of the cleaner body to be rotatable for travel of the cleaner body and configured to rotatably support the cleaner body; and a wheel motor assembly provided between an outer surface of the cleaner body and the moving wheel and configured to rotate the moving wheel for the travel of the cleaner body, wherein the wheel motor assembly is rotatably coupled to the moving wheel at a rear of a vertical extension line of a rotating center of the moving wheel.

A vacuum cleaner that includes: a cleaner body; a wheel; a dust container; a cover member that is configured to (i) rotate, about an axis that is outside of a plane of the cover member, between a first position and a second position and (ii) cover, based on the cover member being located at the first position or the second position, the first opening of the cleaner body and a portion of the dust container; a cover member coupling portion that couples the cover member to the cleaner body and that is configured to rotate about the second axis with the cover member; a suction nozzle that is coupled to the dust container and that is configured to guide dust into the dust container; and a display that is coupled to the cover member and that is configured to display operating information of the vacuum cleaner is disclosed.

Provided is a vacuum cleaner including a cleaner body; a moving wheel provided at each of both side surfaces of the cleaner body, rotated for travelling of the vacuum cleaner and configured to support the cleaner body to be rotatable in normal and reverse directions; a wheel motor assembly connected to the moving wheel and configured to rotate the moving wheel for the travelling of the vacuum cleaner; a main motor provided inside the cleaner body, located at a rear side further than a vertical extension line of a rotating center of the moving wheel and driven to suction dust; and a battery provided inside the cleaner body, located at the rear side further than the vertical extension line of the rotating center of the moving wheel and configured to provide electric power to the main motor and the wheel motor assembly, wherein a center of gravity of the cleaner body is located at a rear of the vertical extension line of the rotating center of the moving wheel due to an arrangement of the main motor and the battery.