A vacuum cleaner including: a suctioning unit; a main body including a cyclone part for separating dust from suctioned air and a dust container for storing the separated dust, and a body cover for opening and closing the lower side of the body; a filter unit, disposed in the body, for filtering air separated from the dust; an actuating unit capable of moving in the body between the outside of the filter unit and the inner circumference surface of the body; an operating unit disposed outside the body which operates in order to move the actuating unit; a transmission unit penetrating the body and connecting the actuating unit with the operating unit; and an elastic member disposed outside the body which elastically supports the operating unit.

A system for environmental maintenance includes a vacuum unit, an air purifier unit, a controller communicatively connected to the vacuum unit and the air purifier unit, a sweep sensor communicatively connected to the controller, and a movement sensor communicatively connected to the controller. The sweep sensor detects debris swept into a detectable vicinity of the sweep sensor and the controller turns on the vacuum unit upon detection by the sweep sensor. The controller turns on the air purifier unit upon the vacuum unit being turned on, and the air purifier unit cycles on for a period as programmed in the controller. The movement sensor detects movement in detectable vicinity of the movement sensor and the controller turns on the air purifier unit upon detection by the sweep sensor, if the air purifier is not already turned on.

The present application discloses a cleaning device and a dust box. The cleaning device may comprise a cleaning apparatus and a switching assembly. The cleaning apparatus may be connected to a base station to form a suction channel with the base station. The base station may suction waste inside the cleaning apparatus via the suction channel. The switching assembly may be provided in the cleaning apparatus to intermittently block the suction channel to change the pressure of the suction channel, so that the waste inside the cleaning device can be suctioned out of the cleaning device.

A docking station for a surface cleaning apparatus has a floor standing base unit with a docking station dirt collection chamber, and upflow and down flow ducts that are connectable with the surface cleaning apparatus.

A separating device that is connectable to a vacuuming device for separating dirt particles from an air stream drawn in by the vacuuming device, containing at least one separator. The at least one separator contains an inlet opening for the air stream and a first and second outlet opening, wherein the first outlet opening serves for the exit of drawn-in dirt particles from the separator and the second outlet opening serves for the exit of the drawn-in air stream and of the drawn-in dirt particles from the separator, and wherein a first and second collection vessel for collecting the dirt particles separated from the separator is contained, and wherein the first collection vessel is positioned in a direction beneath the first outlet opening and the second collection vessel is positioned in a direction beneath the second outlet opening.

A vacuum cleaner includes a suction inlet, a suction source configured to generate an airflow through the suction inlet to draw debris with the airflow through the suction inlet, and a separator assembly. The separator assembly includes a housing having an air inlet and an air outlet, a debris collection chamber within the housing, and an inner chamber formed within a shroud that defines a cyclone axis and has a perforated portion. The inner chamber has a first end and a second end. The first end has a tangential inlet. The second end is open toward the debris collection chamber. An outflow passageway is outside of the shroud and in fluid communication with the air outlet and a filter is in fluid communication with the outflow passageway.

A cleaning device includes: a vacuum cleaner including a dust collecting container; and a dust collecting station connectible to the dust collecting container to receive the foreign substances collected in the dust collecting container The dust collecting container includes a dust collecting container main body including a first opening and a dust collecting container door configured to open or close the first opening by rotating around a first axis. The dust collecting station includes: a station main body including an accommodation space, a capturing portion including a second opening to intercommunicate with the first opening, and configured to capture the foreign substances, and a pressurizer configured to rotate around a second axis to apply pressure on one side of the dust collecting container door so that the dust collecting container door rotates around the first axis to be adjacent to the dust collecting container main body.

A vacuum cleaner comprises: a housing and a motor fan assembly mounted in the housing, the motor fan assembly arranged to generate an air flow. A removable dirt container is mountable on the housing and in fluid communication with a dirty air inlet and the motor fan assembly. A moveable dirt compactor is mounted in the dirt container and moveable between a stowed position and a dirt compacting position wherein the moveable dirt compactor is closer to one end of the dirt container in the dirt compacting position than in the stowed position. Wherein the dirt container comprises a primary handle for actuating the moveable dirt compactor with a first hand and a first auxiliary handle for allowing the user to grip with a second hand.

A hand vacuum cleaner comprises a cyclone having a dirt outlet in communication with a dirt chamber. The cyclone has a central longitudinally extending axis, wherein, when the upper end of the hand vacuum cleaner is positioned above the lower end of the hand vacuum cleaner, the central longitudinally extending axis is oriented generally horizontally and the dirt outlet comprises a slot provided in an upper portion of the sidewall of the cyclone.

A cleaner is disclosed. The cleaner may include a housing having an opening through which air is introduced into the housing. The cleaner may also include a filtering unit mounted in the inner space of the housing. The filtering unit may define a dust collection space between the filtering unit and the inner surface of the housing. In addition, the cleaning unit may be mounted to surround the filtering unit. A manipulation unit may raise or lower the cleaning unit within the dust collection space. Furthermore, brush protrusions may protrude from the cleaning unit toward the surface of the filtering unit.