Abstract: An electric vacuum cleaner apparatus includes: a station, an electric vacuum cleaner attachable to the station, and plural attaching detectors which can detect the electric vacuum cleaner is attached in the station. The electric vacuum cleaner includes a cleaner body; a tubular part connected to the cleaner body and sucks in dust; and a primary dust container that stores dust sucked in with the tubular part. The station includes a secondary dust container that stores dust discharged from the primary dust container. The electric vacuum cleaner apparatus permits transfer of dust from the primary dust container to the secondary dust container when at least two of the plural attaching detectors have detected the attaching of the electric vacuum cleaner to the station.

Abstract: An electric vacuum cleaning apparatus includes a station and an electric vacuum cleaner connectable/disconnectable from the station. The electric vacuum cleaner includes: a coarse-dust collecting chamber that accumulates coarse dust separated with a first separator; a filter chamber that accumulates fine dust separated with a filter; a coarse-dust waste-outlet that discharges the coarse dust from the coarse-dust collecting chamber; a fine-dust waste-outlet adjacent to the coarse-dust waste-outlet and discharges the fine dust from the filter chamber; and a waste-outlet lid that opens/closes both the coarse-dust waste-outlet and fine-dust waste-outlet together.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a main body portion, a secondary battery, an electric blower, a handle and a conductive member. The secondary battery is disposed in the main body portion. The electric blower operates by electric power supply from the secondary battery. The handle is one which a user contacts when the vacuum cleaner is used. At least a part of the conductive member is disposed at the handle and conducts static electricity generated due to operation of the electric blower.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a primary dust container that includes a container body, the container body delineating a dust collecting chamber that accumulates dust sucked into the vacuum cleaner and including a waste outlet that discharges the dust accumulated in the dust collecting chamber, the primary dust container also including a waste-outlet lid that opens and closes the waste outlet. A station includes a secondary dust container that accumulates the dust discharged from the primary dust container, and a driving source that generates opening driving force and closing driving force for the waste outlet. The electric vacuum cleaner generates a driving force for opening and closing an air passage connecting a primary dust container and a secondary dust container, without impairing convenience of a vacuum cleaner.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner is provided with a cleaner main body having an electric blower and a handle. The handle is shaped such that a gravity center position of the cleaner main body remains substantially unchanged in a state in which any one region is gripped.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a primary dust container that includes a container body, the container body delineating a dust collecting chamber that accumulates dust sucked into the vacuum cleaner and including a waste outlet that discharges the dust accumulated in the dust collecting chamber, the primary dust container also including a waste-outlet lid that opens and closes the waste outlet. A station includes a secondary dust container that accumulates the dust discharged from the primary dust container, and a driving source that generates opening driving force and closing driving force for the waste outlet. The electric vacuum cleaner generates a driving force for opening and closing an air passage connecting a primary dust container and a secondary dust container, without impairing convenience of a vacuum cleaner.

Abstract: A control system includes a detector configured to detect speech of a plurality of users and a controller. The controller is configured to specify an attribute of the user who spoke based on a content and/or voice of the speech of the user detected by the detector, and output notification information suitable for the attribute and/or execute control suitable for the attribute.

Abstract: The home appliance system comprises a detector capable of communicating with a plurality of home appliances and configured to detect speech of a user and a controller. The controller is configured to specify one or more home appliances from among the plurality of home appliances based on a content of the speech of the user detected by the detector.

Abstract: An electric vacuum cleaner and an electric vacuum cleaning apparatus that can accumulate dust intensively near its waste lid and can readily discharge the accumulated dust. An electric vacuum cleaner includes: a first separator that separates dust from dust-containing air; a coarse-dust collecting chamber that accumulates the dust separated with the first separator; a coarse-dust waste-outlet that discharges the dust from the coarse-dust collecting chamber; a recess part provided within the coarse-dust collecting chamber, communicates with the coarse-dust waste-outlet, and accumulates dust inside the coarse-dust collecting chamber; and a waste-outlet lid that is part of a wall of the recess part and opens and closes the coarse-dust waste-outlet.

Abstract: An electric vacuum cleaner apparatus includes: a station, an electric vacuum cleaner attachable to the station, and plural attaching detectors which can detect the electric vacuum cleaner is attached in the station. The electric vacuum cleaner includes a cleaner body; a tubular part connected to the cleaner body and sucks in dust; and a primary dust container that stores dust sucked in with the tubular part. The station includes a secondary dust container that stores dust discharged from the primary dust container. The electric vacuum cleaner apparatus permits transfer of dust from the primary dust container to the secondary dust container when at least two of the plural attaching detectors have detected the attaching of the electric vacuum cleaner to the station.

Abstract: An electric vacuum cleaner apparatus includes: an electric vacuum cleaner; a primary dust container that separates and accumulates dust from dust-containing air to be sucked into the electric vacuum cleaner; a waste-outlet lid that opens and closes a waste outlet that discharges the dust from the primary dust container; a station that can store the electric vacuum cleaner; a secondary dust container including the station and fluidly connected to the primary dust container through the waste outlet when storing the electric vacuum in the station; a secondary electric blower that transfers dust from the primary dust container to the secondary dust container by applying negative pressure to the primary dust container through the secondary dust container; and a drive source that generates opening and closing drive force of the waste-outlet lid. The closing drive force is generated after the secondary electric blower stops generating the negative pressure for transferring the dust.

Abstract: An electric vacuum cleaning apparatus includes a station and an electric vacuum cleaner connectable/disconnectable from the station. The electric vacuum cleaner includes: a coarse-dust collecting chamber that accumulates coarse dust separated with a first separator; a filter chamber that accumulates fine dust separated with a filter; a coarse-dust waste-outlet that discharges the coarse dust from the coarse-dust collecting chamber; a fine-dust waste-outlet adjacent to the coarse-dust waste-outlet and discharges the fine dust from the filter chamber; and a waste-outlet lid that opens/closes both the coarse-dust waste-outlet and fine-dust waste-outlet together.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a main body case which includes a main body connection port at a front side, a pair of wheels provided on the left and right side portions of the main body case to support the main body case movably and conceals at least a back surface of the main body case when viewed in a rotation axis direction, and a secondary battery provided in an area sandwiched between the pair of wheels and arranged in conformity with the shape of the main body case.

Abstract: An electric vacuum cleaning apparatus that offers a high degree of convenience is provided that is capable of easily switching between a function that empties dust from an electric vacuum cleaner by moving dust collected by the cleaner to a station and accumulating the dust at the station, and a function that accumulates dust that is swept up together after quickly performing localized cleaning using an cleaning implement other than the cleaner at the station.

Abstract: Provided is a vacuum cleaner capable of efficiently utilizing exhaust of an electric blower when the vacuum cleaner is used as a blower. An exhaust air path (37) is arranged in a body portion (21) so as to communicate between an exhaust side of the electric blower and an exhaust port. A connecting port (34) is arranged on the body portion (21). A blower air path (38) is arranged in the body portion (21) so as to communicate between the exhaust side of the electric blower and the connecting port (34). A switching valve (39) is arranged capable of opening and closing the connecting port (34), so as to switch between the exhaust air path (37) and the blower air path (38) according to the opening and closing. An attachment (17), when being attached to the connecting port (34), communicates with the blower air path (38) upon switching by the switching valve (39).

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a main body portion, a secondary battery, an electric blower, a handle and a conductive member. The secondary battery is disposed in the main body portion. The electric blower operates by electric power supply from the secondary battery. The handle is one which a user contacts when the vacuum cleaner is used. At least a part of the conductive member is disposed at the handle and conducts static electricity generated due to operation of the electric blower.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner is provided with a cleaner main body having an electric blower and a handle. The handle is shaped such that a gravity center position of the cleaner main body remains substantially unchanged in a state in which any one region is gripped.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a main casing, driving wheels, side brushes, an obstacle sensor, and a controller. The driving wheels enable the main casing to travel. The side brushes are reciprocatively movable in both a direction of protruding from an outer frame of the main casing and its opposite direction, enabling cleaning of dust and dirt located outside the outer frame of the main casing. The obstacle sensor detects an obstacle by detecting a movement of the side brush in the opposite direction due to its contact with the obstacle. The controller controls drive of the driving wheels based on detection of an obstacle by the obstacle sensor to make the main casing autonomously travel. The vacuum cleaner can detect an obstacle at a position of a side brush while securely cleaning dust and dirt located outside an outer frame of a main casing by the side brush.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner capable of ensuring communication between a suction port and a dust collecting unit even in a state that a body portion of a cleaning unit has pivoted along an up/down direction relative to a main casing. The body portion is provided on the main casing to be pivotable along the up/down direction. A sliding-contact surface portion is provided in the body portion and curved along a pivoting direction of the body portion. A curved surface portion is provided in the communicating section body and curved along the pivoting direction of the body portion to be brought into sliding contact with the sliding-contact surface portion by pivoting motion of the body portion. A communicating opening is opened in the curved surface portion to communicate with the dust collecting unit.

Abstract: An electric vacuum cleaner that can be improved in quietness without increasing in size while securing air intake balance. The electric vacuum cleaner includes an electric blower. The electric vacuum cleaner includes a separating part that separates dust sucked by the electric blower. The separating part includes a first centrifugally separating part that centrifugally separates dust sucked by the electric blower. The separating part includes a plurality of second centrifugally separating parts that centrifugally separates dust smaller than dust to be separated by the first centrifugally separating part. The second centrifugally separating parts communicate with the downstream side of the first centrifugally separating part, and are disposed at positions opposite to each other with respect to the electric blower.