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Panasonic "Separate Cordless Stick Vacuum Cleaner MC-NS10K" released on October 25.It is a product that is focused on the harmony as an interior in the space, along with the ease of use as a vacuum cleaner.

We asked the main members of development about the commitment to the design of MC-NS10K and the struggle and episodes of the mechanism and design for achieving both functions and performance.

Regarding the design of the exterior, Kazuhiro Fujita, the design center AD1, said:

"The first image model was just a round bar, it was made with a square dock. In the past, there are more elements, including dust boxes, and as a result.I realized again that it led to the "vacuum cleaner in appearance". However, we are not always thinking about cleaning while living.It can be used, but we pursued how to make it harmonious without being aware of its existence. "(Mr. Fujita)

Under such circumstances, Mr. Fujita's particular attention was revealed as "handle at hand."

Specifically, "I want to minimize the unevenness when aiming for a simple stick. We are excited about how much it can be used without breaking the ease of use. For products made with the concept so far.There were many things that specified the place to have. On the other hand, there were various discussions that I examined this time, because there was no conventional concept in the conventional way of thinking. "Looking back.

Mr. Motonobu Shigeo of the Laundry Cleaner Division Cleaner Product Planning Division said, "I tried many types of the thickness of the diameter. It is easy to grasp in human engineering, but it is easy to blend in. It is not noticeable.The protrusions are attached to the back and it makes it difficult to slip. Due to new initiatives, there is a strong commitment from the design department, and as a planning department, we worked in various ways in the company. "

The design of the Cleadock is also a part that bothered the designer.According to Yoaki Mizuno, the Laundry Cleaner Division Cleaner Technology Division, the part that was particularly difficult was the vacuum cleaner.

Next, Mr. Fujita said, "There is a brush that does not entangle the head, and even if you throw away the garbage, your hands will not get dirty, but it seems that dust will accumulate only there (the wearing part of the body).He was excited. He continued to place an order to express that the shape of the Cleanock was hard to accumulate (laughs). "

Mr. Mizuno, on the other hand, said, "If the nozzle is set diagonally, there will be various problems if the garbage does not transfer well. It is the safest to determine the position firmly on the pedestal, but that is the design.However, since it becomes more and more rugged, only the minimum necessary irregularities, and ultimately, I adjusted it so that it could fit well even if the main unit was inserted from a certain diagonal to some extent. This is also a model using clay.It was a repetition of making it, putting it in and cutting. In this case, we adjusted thoroughly to the point where it is easy to set without impairing the design. "

The color development is only white color.According to Fujita, the main reason is that the image color of the cleaner is white in the current Panasonic.

"This time, white is definitely going to be done. However, if all are pure white, the complicated parts will be noticeable, so the lower part of the nozzle is gray and the tone looks like a white and simple stick."(Mr. Fujita)

In recent stick vacuum cleaners, the cyclone type has become the mainstream, and the paper pack type is shrinking.Meanwhile, the reason why the paper pack type was adopted in the MC-NS10K Clindock is as follows.

"I have always been dissatisfied with the act of throwing away the dust in the dust box (a stick vacuum cleaner) and a complaint about the dancing of the garbage there. The paper pack type has the advantage of being clean, and the Cleanup is a paper pack.I was trying to try it. Of course, there was an opinion from inside the company that young people were not familiar with, and there was a negative reaction in terms of running costs, etc., but some people prefer paper packs., I adopted it because there is a strong demand "(Mr. Shigeho)

The MC-NS10K solved the problem of the dust box capacity of the slim stick vacuum cleaner and the good handling of the main body with the drastic idea of providing a dust in the charging dock.Balancing the adoption of paper packs and the design is also a difficult factor with a conventional stick vacuum cleaner.In that sense, MC-NS10K is a break-through product as a cordless stick vacuum cleaner.