A vacuum cleaning device comprises: a housing; a motor and fan assembly for generating an airflow between an air inlet and an air outlet. A removable dirt collection bin receives dirt in the airflow. The dirt collection bin is located in fluid communication between the air inlet and air outlet and mountable to the housing. A locking mechanism is moveable between a locked position and an unlocked position for releasably coupling the dirt collection bin to the housing. An ejection mechanism arranged to eject the dirt collection bin away from the housing when the locking mechanism is in the unlocked position.

A surface cleaning apparatus has a cyclone chamber provided in an air flow path. The cyclone chamber has a screen assembly with an outlet section, a longitudinally spaced apart distal section and a longitudinally extending porous section. The outlet section includes a non-porous member extending longitudinally inwardly an outlet section length from an outlet end of the outlet section to a longitudinally inwardly positioned inlet end of the outlet section. The outlet end of the outlet section overlies a cyclone air outlet. The porous section extends longitudinally inwardly from an outlet end of the porous section that is located at the inlet end of the outlet section. The inlet end of the outlet section has a width in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction that is greater than a width of the outlet end of the porous section in the transverse direction.

A cyclone bin assembly for a hand vacuum cleaner has a cyclone chamber and a dirt collection chamber. The cyclone chamber has a cyclone air inlet, a cyclone air outlet, a dirt outlet, a cyclone chamber front end, a cyclone chamber rear end and cyclone axis of rotation that intersects a cyclone chamber front end wall and a cyclone chamber rear end wall. The dirt collection chamber has a dirt collection chamber front end having a dirt collection chamber front end wall and an axially spaced apart dirt collection chamber rear end having a dirt collection chamber rear end wall. A forward portion of the cyclone bin assembly is rotationally mounted between a closed position wherein the cyclone chamber and the dirt collection chamber are closed and an open position wherein a rear portion of the cyclone chamber and a rear portion of the dirt collection chamber are opened.

A surface cleaning apparatus has a cyclone bin assembly having a cyclone chamber. The cyclone chamber with a physical filtration member defining the cyclone air outlet. The physical filtration member has an outer wall wherein at least a portion of the outer wall is porous and a plurality of ribs is spaced around the outer wall. The ribs have a radial inner side that has an inner width in the direction of rotation and a radial outer side that has an outer width in the direction of rotation that is narrower than the inner width.

The invention relates to a cleaning apparatus for cleaning, in particular, electrical components by means of a gaseous cleaning medium, comprising a cleaning chamber with an inner space and a wall arrangement enclosing same, a receptacle for the component in the inner space and a flow device for the cleaning medium, which comprises a pressurization device and comprises or forms at least one inlet into the inner space and at least one outlet from the inner space, wherein a pressure difference between the at least one inlet and the at least one outlet is providable by means of the flow device, and wherein the flow device is formed such that the cleaning medium forms a vortex flow at least in sections in the inner space from the at least one inlet to the at least one outlet.

A hand vacuum cleaner has a main body housing a suction motor and fan assembly and an air treatment assembly having an air treatment chamber and a dirt collection region, the air treatment assembly having an openable door that is rotatable from a closed vacuuming position to an open dirt emptying position. A floor standing unit having a dirt collection chamber and a dirt inlet port. A hand vacuum cleaner handle is provided on the lower end of the hand vacuum cleaner and the openable door is rotatably mounted to a lower end of the hand vacuum cleaner. When the hand vacuum cleaner is docked with the floor standing unit and the openable door is opened, the door rotates into the dirt inlet port of the floor standing unit and dirt collected in the dirt collection region is transferrable to the dirt collection chamber of the floor standing unit.

An autonomous vacuum cleaner operable to navigate about a surrounding environment to perform a surface cleaning operation without continuous human input. The vacuum cleaner includes a suction nozzle and a suction motor and a fan assembly operable to generate an airflow through the vacuum cleaner from the suction nozzle through a debris separator to a clean air exhaust. The suction motor and the fan assembly having an axis of rotation and a fan of the fan assembly rotatable about the axis of rotation. The axis of rotation is orientated horizontally. The debris separator includes a cyclonic separator operable to separate debris from the airflow and the cyclonic separator includes a cylindrical wall along a longitudinal axis, the longitudinal axis of the cyclonic separator being orientated horizontally.

A surface cleaning apparatus comprises a surface cleaning head, an upright section moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head and a portable cleaning unit. The upright section has an upflow duct having a downstream air outlet and the portable cleaning unit is removably mounted to the downstream air outlet. The portable cleaning unit comprising a nozzle, a cyclone, an energy storage member, a suction motor, a clean air outlet and a portable cleaning unit air flow path extending from the nozzle to the clean air outlet. A power cord is removably connectable to the surface cleaning apparatus. When the portable cleaning unit is switched on and when the portable cleaning unit is removed from the upright section, the suction motor is operable on power provided by the energy storage member.

A suction hose for a vacuum cleaner having a vacuum body assembly includes an accessory end configured to accept one or more interchangeable accessory nozzles, an attachment end, opposite the accessory end, and configured to removably attach to a vacuum body assembly, a hollow conduit extending between the accessory end and the attachment end; and a pivot joint assembly located between the accessory end and the attachment end, the pivot joint assembly providing rotation of the accessory end relative to the attachment end.

A reconfigurable upright vacuum cleaner has a portable surface cleaning unit removably mounted to an upper portion. The portable surface cleaning unit has a suction motor and an air treatment member. The air treatment member is removably mounted to the portable surface cleaning unit and secured in position by an air treatment member lock. The portable surface cleaning unit is secured in position by a portable surface cleaning unit lock. When the portable surface cleaning unit is mounted to the upper portion and the upper portion is in the storage position, the portable surface cleaning unit actuator is provided on an upper end of the portable surface cleaning unit and the air treatment member release actuator is provided on an upper end of the air treatment member.