Patent ID: 8607401

Claim:
A cleaning apparatus comprising: a suction unit provided with a suction source; a suction nozzle equipped with a suction port adapted to suck dust from a surface to be cleaned; a suction hose connected at one end to the suction nozzle and connected at another end to the suction unit; a low-center-of-gravity support member provided for the suction hose so as to serve as a fulcrum when the suction hose is bent and deformed; a wire member supported at a distal end by the suction nozzle and arranged along the suction hose and including a plurality of wires positioned around the suction hose spaced apart in the circumferential direction of the suction hose; and a control unit configured to pull the wire member with the low-center-of-gravity support member serving as a fulcrum and manipulate the wire member to thereby deform the suction hose and then change a direction of the suction nozzle, the control unit formed on an opposite side of the low-center-of-gravity support member than the suction nozzle.