A surface cleaning apparatus has a cyclone with multiple cyclone air inlets, and a header that is upstream of at least some of the cyclone air inlets.

A hand vacuum cleaner comprises a body which houses a suction motor. Batteries are provided at the rear end of the hand vacuum cleaner and under the handle. An enclosed finger grip area is positioned forward of the hand grip portion of the handle and rearward of cyclone unit wherein a line extending in a common direction as the cyclone axis of rotation extends through the cyclone unit, the finger grip area and the hand grip portion.

In general, the present disclosure is directed to a hand-held surface cleaning device that includes a relatively compact form-factor to allow users to store the same in a nearby location (e.g., in a drawer, in an associated charging dock, on a table top) for easy access to perform relatively small cleaning tasks that would otherwise require retrieving a full-size vacuum from storage. A hand-held surface cleaning device consistent with aspects of the present disclosure includes a body (or body portion) with a motor, power source and dust cup disposed therein. The body portion also functions as a handgrip to allow the hand-held surface cleaning device to be operated by one hand, for example.

A hand vacuum has an air flow passage extending from a dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet and a motor and fan assembly provided in the air flow passage. The hand vacuum has an air treatment chamber having a front end, a rear end, a treatment chamber axis extending in a forward/rearward direction between the front and rear ends, an air inlet, an air outlet, a dirt outlet and a treatment chamber door rotatably mounted about an axis that is parallel to the treatment chamber axis. The hand vacuum has a dirt collection chamber external to the air treatment chamber. The dirt collection chamber has a collection chamber door rotatably mounted about another axis that extends in a different direction to the forward/rearward direction and extends in an emptying plane. When the collection chamber door is open, an emptying port is provided in the emptying plane.

A multimode surface cleaner comprising a surface cleaning head, an upright section moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head and a hand vacuum cleaner removably mountable to an upper end of the upright section. An auxiliary dirt collection assembly is removably mountable to the upright section wherein the auxiliary dirt collection assembly is mountable to the upright section while the hand vacuum cleaner is mounted to the upright section. In a first upright mode of operation, the auxiliary dirt collection assembly is removed from the upright section and the hand vacuum cleaner is in airflow communication with the surface cleaning head dirty air inlet whereby dirt is collected in the hand vacuum cleaner. In a second upright mode of operation, the multimode surface cleaner is operable with the auxiliary dirt collection assembly mounted to the upright section whereby dirt is collected in the auxiliary dirt collection assembly.

A surface cleaner comprising a surface cleaning head, an upright section moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head and an auxiliary dirt collection assembly removably mountable to the upright section. The hand vacuum cleaner, when removed from a remainder of the surface cleaner, is useable to clean a surface and when the hand vacuum cleaner is mounted to the remainder of the surface cleaner, in a first upright mode of operation to clean the surface in which the auxiliary dirt collection assembly is removed from the upright section, dirt is collected in the hand vacuum cleaner. sIn an emptying configuration in which the hand vacuum cleaner mounted to the remainder of the surface cleaner and the auxiliary dirt collection assembly mounted to the upright section, dirt collected in the hand vacuum cleaner is transferred to the auxiliary dirt collection assembly.

A cleaner may include an intake portion configured to draw in debris from a surface to be cleaned, and a drum that is rotatable while arranged in the intake portion, and including: a body including: a first end along a rotational axis of the drum, the first end having a first end outer diameter and including: a body connecting portion, and a body spaced portion spaced from the body connecting portion along the rotational axis, and a second end along the rotational axis opposite the first end and having a second end outer diameter that is larger than the first end outer diameter, and a connecting body couplable to the first end of the body, and including a connecting portion connectable to the body spaced portion, wherein with the connecting body coupled to the first end of the body, the connecting portion is connected to the body spaced portion.

A vacuum cleaner, including a dust suction main unit, configured to provide power for a dust suction operation; a dust container, configured to be detachably installed with the dust suction main unit and collect debris under the action of the dust suction main unit; and a fool-proof assembly, arranged on the dust container and configured to switch between a normal working position and an abnormal working position. When the fool-proof assembly is located at the normal working position, the dust suction main unit is allowed to be assembled on the dust container; when the fool-proof assembly is located at the abnormal working position, the dust suction main unit is prevented from being assembled on the dust container.

A hand vacuum cleaner has a cyclone unit, a front electrical connector and electrical conductors that extend from the front electrical connector to a source of power. The electrical conducts extend along a portion of a wall of the cyclone unit. When a cleaning tool is connected to the hand vacuum cleaner, the cleaning tool is connected in air flow communication with the dirty air inlet and the cleaning tool is electrically connected to the front electrical connector.