Patent ID: 7779507

Claim:
A vacuum cleaner, comprising: a suction nozzle that sucks an air containing impurities by operation of a motor; a dust collecting assembly, comprising: a dust collecting container comprising a dust collecting space that collects impurities therein and comprising an opened top; a top lid that opens and closes the top of the dust collecting container, wherein a pass through hole is formed in the top lid; an inlet that sucks the polluted air to the inside of the dust collecting container; a filtering device that is detachably mounted in the pass through hole of the top lid such that the filtering device is inserted and withdrawn from an upper side of the top lid, wherein the filtering device filters impurities; a separation plate that prevents the impurities collected in a lower part of the dust collecting container from being risen by air flow; and an outlet that exhausts clean air separated from the impurities to the outside of the dust collecting container; and a cleaner body, comprising: a dust collecting assembly receiving recess that detachably receives the dust collecting assembly; a polluted air outlet provided at the dust collecting assembly receiving recess, and communicating with the inlet of dust collecting assembly for discharging the polluted air to the dust collecting assembly, the polluted air sucked through the suction nozzle; 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 comprising a fan provided therein and rotated by the motor, wherein a first end of the clean air conduit is coupled to the clean air inlet and a second end of the clean air conduit is coupled to a clean air outlet that exhausts the clean air to the outside of the vacuum cleaner.