The Dyson Airmuscle ™:
Dyson Direct Inc. has unveiled it’s latest technology on a new upright vacuum cleaner named the Dyson DC28. The technology, know now as the Dyson Airmuscle is a combination of three new technologies that allows the vacuum cleaner head to move intelligently to adapt to vacuuming on different surfaces.
It seems to me that Dyson is always working to figure out what is currently wrong with their vacuum cleaners, and not what is currently right. A mindset that really seems to be working for them as it has lead to many new advances in the vacuum cleaner industry. The problem that they addressed this time was that they saw that vacuum cleaners didn’t not effectively vacuum all surface well, and even the ones that had adjustments for such issues the did not work appropriately.
When a vacuum is adjustable for cleaning different surface types it will generally have two options 1 lower the brush bar, or 2 lower the entire vacuum head. The problems that occur with these adjustments are that when you lower the brush bar you will raise the vacuums head away from the floor causing a suction leakage. The leakage means that you will lose some of your seal and your vacuum won’t pick up all of the dirt that it should be picking up. The issue with lowering the vacuums head is that they generally do it by weighting the vacuum to keep it touch the ground. But the weights will make it difficult to push, especially in carpet where the nose of the vacuum will have a tendency to get buried and stuck.
How Does the Dyson Airmuscle Fix the Problem?
If I were to tell you that I understood completely what the airmuscle did to fix the issue I would be lying because well it took the Dyson engineers whom are much smart than I am 3 years to figure it out. But I do know that they combine three technologies that have seperate but equally important jobs.
Dyson’s Website Says
1. Pneumatic actuator
Pulls the cleaner head deeper into the carpet, opening the pile to dislodge dirt and pet hair.
2. Powered cam
Lifts the brush bar up for hard floors, focusing suction.
3. High-torque clutch
More power to the brush bar, enabling the stiff bristles to open carpet pile and dislodge dirt.
Vacuum’s With the Dyson Airmuscle Technology:
The newest vacuum in the Dyson line up the DC28 upright vacuum cleaner is currently the only vacuum available with the new airmuscle technology. I would expect that as new vacuums are developed the will be equipped with the same or a similar technology.
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