Abstract: A low profile upright surface cleaning apparatus has an upright section which includes an air treatment member and a dirt collection region that is positioned laterally from the air treatment member wherein at least 60% of the volume is positioned laterally from the cyclone and/or on only one side of the air treatment member.

Abstract: An upright surface cleaning apparatus comprises a surface cleaning head and an upright section. The surface cleaning head has rear wheels having a diameter and a central longitudinal axis extending between the front and rear ends. The upright section is movably mounted to the surface cleaning head between a generally upright position and a rearwardly inclined in use position. The upright section has an air treatment member assembly comprising an air treatment member, a dirt collection region wherein at least a portion of the dirt collection region is exterior to and laterally spaced with respect to the air treatment member and a housing having a suction motor therein. The diameter of the rear wheels is greater than a depth of the portion of the dirt collection region in a direction of the central longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A cyclone assembly for a surface cleaning apparatus has a first cyclonic cleaning stage and a second cyclonic cleaning stage downstream from the first cyclonic cleaning stage. The first cyclonic cleaning stage has a first cyclonic stage air outlet and the second cyclonic cleaning stage has a plurality of second cyclonic stage cyclone air inlets and a second cyclonic stage air inlet end. The first cyclonic cleaning stage air outlet communicates directly with an annular flow region that extends around the second stage air inlet end of the second cyclonic stage.

Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner with a vertically extending flat filter is provided. A hand vacuum cleaner with a suction motor forward of the pre-motor filer is also provided.

Abstract: A surface cleaning head is disclosed. The surface cleaning head includes a housing, a brush system, and a panel open detector. The brush system includes a brush and a brush drive member drivingly connected to the brush. The brush is moveably mounted in the brush chamber and removably from the brush chamber. A panel open detector is operatively connected to a brush interruption member and the brush interruption member is operatively connected to the brush system. When the panel open detector detects that a panel on the housing is opened, the brush interruption member interacts with the brush system to prevent the brush drive member driving the brush.

Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner has a suction motor and fan assembly, an air treatment member and a pre-motor filter. The front end of the air treatment member is forward of the pre-motor filter media and the front end of the suction motor is forward of the pre-motor filter media.

Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner wherein the central longitudinal axis of the air treatment member extends generally horizontally and the suction motor axis of rotation extends generally vertically.

Abstract: An upright surface cleaning apparatus comprises a surface cleaning head and a cleaning unit moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head between a generally upright position and a rearwardly inclined in use position, and a telescoping push handle. The cleaning unit comprises an air treatment member assembly comprising an air treatment member and a suction motor. The telescoping push handle comprises upper and lower telescoping longitudinally extending members which are reconfigurable between a retracted position and a first extended position, the lower telescoping longitudinally extending member having a first pivot joint wherein the first pivot joint is non-rotationally locked when the push handle is in the retracted position and the upper telescoping longitudinally extending member is pivotal about the first pivot joint when the push handle is in the first extended position.

Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner may include a suction motor and fan assembly that is positioned downstream of a pre-motor filter. A post motor filter may be positioned downstream of the suction motor and fan assembly and may be in the lower end of the hand vacuum cleaner and an energy storage member may be in an upper end of the handle.

Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner can include an air inlet conduit having an inlet conduit axis, a suction motor and fan assembly having a suction motor axis of rotation, and a cyclone unit comprising a cyclone chamber having a cyclone axis of rotation. The inlet conduit axis can be generally parallel to the cyclone axis and when the inlet conduit axis is horizontally disposed, the inlet conduit axis is positioned above the cyclone axis and a projection of the inlet conduit axis intersects the suction motor.

Abstract: A cyclone assembly for a surface cleaning apparatus has two cyclonic stages wherein the second cyclonic cleaning stage comprises a second stage dirt collection region and at least a portion of the second stage dirt collection region is positioned longitudinally above and overlying a first stage cyclone chamber.

Abstract: An upright surface cleaning apparatus comprises a surface cleaning head, a cleaning unit moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head between a generally upright position and a rearwardly inclined in use position, a push handle and an above floor cleaning assembly. The cleaning unit comprises an air treatment member and the push handle is rotatably mounted with respect to the cleaning unit. The above floor cleaning assembly comprises a flexible conduit having an inlet end and an outlet end, wherein in a floor cleaning mode a first portion of the flexible conduit having the outlet end is located on the second lateral side of the air treatment member and a second transverse portion of the flexible conduit extends from the second lateral side of the air treatment member over the upper end of the air treatment member to the first lateral side of the air treatment member wherein the second transverse portion is vertically spaced from the rotational joint.

Abstract: A low profile upright surface cleaning apparatus has an upright section which includes an air treatment member and a dirt collection region that is positioned laterally from the air treatment member wherein at least 60% of the volume is positioned laterally from the cyclone and/or on only one side of the air treatment member.

Abstract: An upright surface cleaning apparatus comprises a surface cleaning and an upright section moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head between a generally upright position and a rearwardly inclined in use position. The upright section comprising a cleaning unit comprising a carry handle wherein the carry handle extends in a direction transverse to the central longitudinal axis of the surface cleaning head and wherein the carry handle has a hand grip portion that has a length in the transverse direction that is greater than a depth of the cleaning unit in a direction of the central longitudinal axis.

Abstract: An upright surface cleaning apparatus comprises a surface cleaning head, an upright section and a rotatable mount. The upright section is moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head between a generally upright position and a rearwardly inclined in use position, the upright section has an air treatment member assembly, a push handle and a suction motor housing. The push handle has a longitudinally extending drive axis that extends through the air treatment member assembly and the suction motor housing. The rotatable mount rotatably mounts the upright section with respect to the surface cleaning head about an upright section axis wherein the rotatable mount underlies the upright section when the upright section is in the generally upright position.

Abstract: An upright surface cleaning apparatus comprises a surface cleaning head and a cleaning unit moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head between a generally upright position and a rearwardly inclined in use position, and a telescoping push handle. The cleaning unit comprises an air treatment member assembly comprising an air treatment member and a suction motor. The telescoping push handle comprises upper and lower telescoping longitudinally extending members which are reconfigurable between a retracted position and a first extended position, the lower telescoping longitudinally extending member having a first pivot joint wherein the first pivot joint is non-rotationally locked when the push handle is in the retracted position and the upper telescoping longitudinally extending member is pivotal about the first pivot joint when the push handle is in the first extended position.

Abstract: An upright surface cleaning apparatus may have a surface cleaning head with a central longitudinal axis extending between its front and rear ends. An upright section may be mounted to the surface cleaning head and may be moveable between a generally upright position and a rearwardly inclined in use position. The upright section may include an air treatment member assembly and a suction motor. The air treatment member assembly may include an air treatment member and a dirt collection region that is positioned laterally from the air treatment member. The suction motor may be positioned below at least one of the air treatment member and the dirt collection region. The first and second laterally opposed sides and one of the front side and the rear side of the air treatment member assembly may be generally rectangular in top plan view when the upright section is in the upright position.

Abstract: A low profile upright surface cleaning apparatus comprises a surface cleaning head and an upright section moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head. The upright section comprises an air treatment member and a suction motor. Each lateral side of the upright section has a clean air outlet and post-motor porous filter media located upstream of the clean air outlet.

Abstract: An upright surface cleaning apparatus comprises a surface cleaning head and an upright section. The surface cleaning head has rear wheels having a diameter and a central longitudinal axis extending between the front and rear ends. The upright section is movably mounted to the surface cleaning head between a generally upright position and a rearwardly inclined in use position. The upright section has an air treatment member assembly comprising an air treatment member, a dirt collection region wherein at least a portion of the dirt collection region is exterior to and laterally spaced with respect to the air treatment member and a housing having a suction motor therein. The diameter of the rear wheels is greater than a depth of the portion of the dirt collection region in a direction of the central longitudinal axis.

Abstract: An upright surface cleaning apparatus comprises a surface cleaning head a cleaning unit moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head between a generally upright position and a rearwardly inclined in use position, a push handle and an above floor cleaning assembly. The above floor cleaning assembly comprises a flexible conduit having an inlet end and an outlet end, wherein in a floor cleaning mode the above floor cleaning assembly is positioned between a front transverse plane that extends transverse to the central longitudinal axis of the surface cleaning head and is located at the front side of the cleaning unit and a rear transverse plane that extends transverse to the central longitudinal axis and is located at the rear side of the cleaning unit.