Patent ID: 7669282

Claim:
A vacuum cleaner, comprising: a suction nozzle that sucks air containing impurities; a dust collecting assembly, comprising: a dust collecting container having a dust collecting space and having an openable and closable bottom; an inlet through which air is drawn into the dust collecting container; a filtering device detachably mounted in the dust collecting container that filters impurities; a top plate having a pass through hole, wherein the filtering device is configured to be inserted into and withdrawn from an upper side of the dust collecting assembly through the pass through hole, and wherein the filtering device is coupled to the top plate; and an outlet through which clean air is exhausted; a cleaner body, comprising: a dust collecting assembly receiving recess that detachably receives the dust collecting assembly; a polluted air outlet that communicates with the inlet of the dust collecting assembly, and that delivers air sucked through the suction nozzle to the dust collecting assembly; a clean air inlet provided on an inner wall of the dust collecting assembly receiving recess so as to face the direction of mounting of the dust collecting assembly, and communicating with the outlet of the dust collecting assembly; and a clean air conduit including a fan rotated by a motor, wherein a first end of the clean air conduit communicates with the clean air inlet and a second end of the clean air conduit has a clean air outlet that exhausts the clean air to the outside of the vacuum cleaner.