A dust collector can be used with a hand-held power tool. The dust collector includes a housing, a telescoping suction pipe coupled to the housing, and a suction fan positioned within the housing and operable to generate a vacuum in the suction pipe. The suction pipe is configured to telescope toward and away from the housing. The suction pipe includes an outer pipe supported by the housing, and an inner pipe slidably received into the outer pipe.

A handheld vacuum cleaner includes a housing, motor, filter access door, filter, and dirt cup movably coupled to the housing. The housing defines a top, bottom, motor chamber, dirty air inlet, handle, clean air outlet, and air flow path. The air flow path is routed from the dirty air inlet to the clean air outlet. The motor is disposed in the motor chamber and defines a motor axis. The filter access defines a filter chamber with the housing. The filter is disposed in the filter chamber and defines a filter axis. The dirt cup defines a dirt cup axis extending parallel to the motor axis and filter axis. The filter access door is located below the filter axis. When the filter axis door is removed, the filter is removable in a downward direction from the filter chamber.

In a device that uses the tank from a conventional vacuum cleaner, the tank is under positive pressure. A cap fits over a tubular element inside the tank and closes the conventional air inlet. The cap has a peripheral wall that extends between a solid back and a front radial rim, and interior axial ribs. The lid is held by a latch that has an element that pivots with respect to the tank and the lid, and a clasp that has a bent arm. A tensioner pulls the bent arm. The tensioner has a threaded rod that extends from a handgrip though a hole in the pivoting element. A nut on the clasp receives a threaded end of the threaded rod, enabling the handgrip to be used to tighten the clasp. An outer wall of the latch is disposed outwardly of the threaded rod and the bent arm.

A hand vacuum cleaner has an air treatment chamber comprising an air inlet, an air outlet, a front end comprising a front door and a rear end. The front door is moveable between an open position in which the air treatment chamber is opened and a closed position. The air treatment chamber further comprises a stationary portion and a moveable portion, the moveable portion is moveable with respect to the stationary portion between an open position in which the air treatment chamber is opened and a closed position.

A surface treatment apparatus may include a surface cleaning head having an agitator, an agitator motor configured to cause the agitator to rotate, and a controller. The controller can be configured to determine a surface type corresponding to a surface to be cleaned and to transition the surface treatment apparatus between a first operational mode and a second operational mode based, at least in part, on the determined surface type. Determining the surface type may include measuring a plurality values corresponding to a current draw of the agitator motor over a predetermined time window at a predetermined time interval, determining an average corresponding to the measured values, comparing the average to at least a first threshold, and transitioning the surface treatment apparatus between the operational modes based, at least in part, on the comparison.

Disclosed is a cleaner. A dust accommodation container according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a winding member. The winding member rotates inside the dust accommodation container and winds thin, long compressible waste, such as animal hair or fibers, which have flowed into the dust accommodation container. Accordingly, the space occupied inside the dust accommodation container by waste such as hair or fibers is reduced. Thus, the dust accommodation container can accommodate a larger amount of waste, and the operable time of the cleaner is greater. Consequently, user convenience can be enhanced.

A cleaner includes: a cleaner body having therein a module mounting portion; a rotation driving portion provided at one side of the module mounting portion; and a cleaning module detachably mounted to the module mounting portion through one side of the cleaner body, wherein the cleaning module includes: a holder linearly inserted into or withdrawn from the module mounting portion in a side direction of the cleaner body; and a cleaning member supported by the holder so as to be inserted or withdrawn into or from the module mounting portion, together with the holder when the holder is inserted thereinto or withdrawn therefrom, and the cleaning member rotated by a driving force provided from the rotation driving portion.

A suction nozzle of an electric vacuum cleaner including an electric blower, includes a suction inlet; an outlet; a suction passage extending along a center line joining a middle of the suction inlet in the longitudinal direction and a middle of the outlet in the longitudinal direction to connect the suction inlet and the outlet; and partition walls arranged in the suction passage to extend from the suction inlet side to the outlet side. The suction passage includes a main passage and division passages arranged on both outer sides of the main passage. The main passage and the division passages are divided in the longitudinal direction of the suction inlet by the partition walls. A width of the main passage at the suction inlet measured in the longitudinal direction is arranged to be greater than a width of the main passage at the outlet measured in the longitudinal direction.

Provided is a suction unit to be provided in an electric vacuum cleaner including an electric blower. The suction unit includes a suction inlet arranged to extend in a longitudinal direction, and arranged opposite to a surface to be cleaned; a connection opening to be connected to the electric blower; a suction passage arranged to extend along a center line joining a middle of the suction inlet in the longitudinal direction and a middle of the connection opening in the longitudinal direction to connect the suction inlet and the connection opening; and a plurality of first partition walls each of which is arranged in the suction passage, and is arranged to extend from a side on which the connection opening is defined to a side on which the suction inlet is defined. The suction passage includes a first main passage and a plurality of first division passages.

Provided are cleaning robot and robot system, the cleaning robot includes robot main body and cleaning box assembly, the robot main body is provided with debris inlet channel, the cleaning box assembly is detachably mounted at one side of robot main body, and includes debris storage box and liquid storage box detachably connected thereto, the debris inlet channel, the debris storage box, and the liquid storage box are sequentially arranged in advancing direction of robot main body, the debris storage box is provided with air inlet and debris collection cavity, the air inlet is butted with the debris inlet channel, the debris collection cavity communicates with the debris inlet channel via the air inlet, the liquid storage box is provided with debris discharge port, the debris discharge port pneumatically communicates with the debris collection cavity, and the debris discharge port discharges debris in it with vacuum negative pressure.