Portable Or Hand Tool Patents (Class 310/50)
  • Patent number: 8368267
    Abstract: A power tool includes a motor housing, a motor, a motor-side terminal, a switch block, and a switch-side terminal provided on the switch block to be connected to the motor-side terminal. A hollow tubular member is provided on one of the motor housing and the switch block and extends in a longitudinal direction of the motor housing, and a fitting member is provided on the other of the motor housing and the switch block and fitted in the tubular member. The motor-side terminal and the switch-side terminal are connected to each other within a hollow of the tubular member. As long as the motor-side terminal and the switch-side terminal are at least connected to each other, the tubular member and the fitting member are held in the fitted state so that a connection between the terminals is isolated from the outside of the tubular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventor: Hitoshi Sengiku
  • Patent number: 8368264
    Abstract: An electric cutting tool including a housing (1) and a motor (2). The motor (2) is removably mounted in a cavity arranged at the back end of the housing (2), and the outer diameter of the motor (2) is matched with the diameter of the cavity. A turnover opening back cover (3) is hinged at the opening at the back end of the cavity. The back cover (3) is locked with the housing (1) by means of a locking structure arranged on its side, and presses against the back end of the motor (2) after closing. A pair of electrode posts (21) are provided at the front end of the motor (2), and a pair of electrode sockets (18) corresponding one-to-one with the pair of electrode posts (21) are provided in the bottom surface of the cavity. A circumferential stop structure is provided between the radial outer surface of the motor (2) and the inner wall of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Beijing Montagne Medical Device Co. Ltd
    Inventor: Ximing Zhou
  • Patent number: 8353364
    Abstract: Three battery cells can be arranged such that one battery cell is situated on the front side of a handle portion and that the remaining two battery cells are situated on the rear side thereof while being arranged laterally side by side. Also, a handle portion can be generally of a triangular cross-sectional configuration whose apex portion is situated on the front side of the handle portion and whose base portion is situated on the rear side thereof; and the handle portion is grasped by bringing fingertips into contact with the apex portion (11a) on the front side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kondo, Manabu Sugimoto, Miyabi Ito, Eiji Kondo
  • Patent number: 8350520
    Abstract: A system and method for a self-charging battery cell are provided in which beta emissions from a Strontium-90 source are obtained by a sensor device and converted into electric energy. In embodiments, a scintillation device is used to intake emissions from a Strontium-90 source, and consequently emit a light or plurality of light flashes. A sensor device, e.g., a photodiode, is utilized to convert the light or plurality of light flashes into electric voltage, current and/or energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Inventor: Ismail Kazem
  • Publication number: 20130000132
    Abstract: An electric power tool (100) includes a power source (102) enclosed in a casing (104). The power source (102) is a brushless DC motor (202) which drives a drive mechanism (106) for a cutting device. Further, an oil pump is at least partly housed in the casing (104) of the electric power tool (100). The oil pump is also driven by the brushless DC motor (202).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: HUSQVARNA AB
    Inventors: Oskar Bergquist, Johan Björnlinger, Johan Svennung, Magnus Lundgren
  • Patent number: 8338994
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a power tool including: a commutator motor including a rotor and a stator having a substantially cylindrical stator core; a fan provided to face one axial end of the stator core so as to be rotatable coaxially with the rotor; and a stator coil bundle fixed to an inner peripheral surface of the stator core, the stator coil bundle having a coil end portion that protrudes more than the stator core in a rotational axis direction of the rotor, wherein a minimum internal diameter of the coil end portion is smaller than a maximum external diameter of the fan, and wherein the coil end portion has a fan facing portion that faces the fan along a direction perpendicular to the rotational axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideyuki Tanimoto
  • Publication number: 20120319508
    Abstract: An electric tool including: a motor having a stator coil; and a circuit board, wherein the stator coil includes a coil main body and an extending part extending from the coil main body and electrically connected to the circuit board, and wherein the extending part is slacked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Oomori
  • Publication number: 20120319509
    Abstract: An electric tool including: a motor; a housing including, a motor housing accommodating the motor, and a handle housing having one end connected to the motor housing and another other end configured to be provided with a detachable battery pack; an output part partially accommodated in the motor housing and configured to be driven by the motor; and a control board accommodated in the motor housing and configured to control the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji KISHIMA, Takeshi TAKEDA
  • Patent number: 8333252
    Abstract: An electrical hand-held power tool (2) includes a housing (4) in which a drive (6) is located, a ventilator (22) for forming a suction region (28) and a pressure region (30) in the housing (4) which provide for an air flow (L) that serves for cooling at least parts of the drive (6), and a separation element (26) arranged between the suction region (28) and the pressure region (30) and fixedly secured in the housing (4), the separation element (46) having an opening for forming a limited wire passage region (46) from the suction region (28) into the pressure region (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rory Britz, Rainer Ontl, Thomas Hofbrucker
  • Publication number: 20120313464
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention may include an electric tool comprising an outer rotor type electric motor as a driving source and a stator supporting member made from metal. The motor preferably includes a stator and a rotator. The stator is preferably supported by the stator supporting member. The rotator is preferably located at an outer periphery of the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru FUKUOKA, Kenichi OTA
  • Patent number: 8330426
    Abstract: Each of a battery charger and a battery pack has a microcomputer. The respective microcomputers mutually perform data communication while the battery pack is being charged by the battery charger, and confirm an operational state of the microcomputer of the communication counterpart (mutual operation confirmation) based on a result of the data communication. When an abnormality of one of the microcomputers is detected, the other microcomputer executes a predetermined process for stopping charging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Suzuki, Tadahiko Kobayakawa, Tomoo Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 8324765
    Abstract: A fluid-operated medical or dental handle with a device for limiting the rotational speed to a maximum rotational speed value is disclosed. The handle comprises a rotating part that can be induced to rotation by a driving fluid for driving a tool connectable to the rotating part, an electrodynamic transducer driven by the rotating part for induction of an electric voltage, wherein the electrodynamic transducer has at least one coil and a magnetic element and at least one switch element for optional opening and closing of a circuit between the two ends of the at least one coil, so that with the circuit closed, an electric current and an induced magnetic field that decelerates the rotational speed of the rotating part and the tool connectable thereto can be induced in the coil of the electrodynamic transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: W&H Dentalwerk Bürmoos GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Rothenwaender, Christoph Kment, Juergen Koelndorfer, Wilhelm Brugger
  • Patent number: 8324764
    Abstract: An electric motor has a stator in which an armature is disposed. The armature has a lamination stack having slots in which magnet wires are wound. An armature shaft extends coaxially through the lamination stack and a commutator is disposed on the armature shaft to which ends of the magnet wires are electrically coupled. The magnet wires are at least partially encased in thermally conductive plastic. When the thermally conductive plastic is molded, a balancing feature is formed of the thermally conductive plastic. In aspects, the balancing feature can include a layer of the plastic from which plastic can be removed during balancing; one or more balancing rings adjacent axial sides of the lamination stack from which plastic can be removed to balance the armature; or one or more balancing rings having one or more pockets therein in which one or more weights are disposed to balance the armature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Hung T. Du, Richard T. Walter
  • Publication number: 20120299402
    Abstract: There is disclosed an electric power tool in which magnetic saturation seldom occurs in a tooth of a stator without increasing the size of a motor. The electric power tool includes a motor having a stator with a plurality of teeth formed circumferentially at equal intervals and axially extending groove-like slots between each tooth, with winding wires being wound around each tooth by use of the slots, and having a tubular rotor coaxially surrounding the stator with a permanent magnet of a plurality of poles on an inner peripheral surface facing distal end surfaces of the teeth of the stator. Further, the ratio of the number of poles of the permanent magnet of the rotor to the number of slots of the stator is set to be 4 to 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenichi OTA
  • Patent number: 8319379
    Abstract: A portable electric power tool including a housing having one end to which an L-shaped battery pack is installable. A motor is accommodated in the housing. A switch assembly includes a switch body installed in the housing. The switch body is overlapped with the L-shaped battery pack in a longitudinal direction of the power tool. The switch assembly further includes a trigger including a pivot portion, a manipulation portion extending frontward from the pivot portion and pivotally movable, and a lever portion extending rearward from the pivot portion to actuate the switch body. The manipulation portion is disposed to overlap with a center of gravity of an entire power tool in the longitudinal direction, and the pivot portion is positioned between the manipulation portion and the switch body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Onose, Eiji Nakayama
  • Patent number: 8310199
    Abstract: An electronic circuit for an electric appliance. In one embodiment, there is provided an electronic circuit for a battery-operated electric appliance, which can be inductively fed by an external electric power source, comprising a charging circuit for charging an accumulator (A), which encompasses a charging coil (L2) and a diode (D2), wherein the accumulator (A) is connected in series to the diode (D2) and the charging coil (L2), a light emitting diode (LED) as display for the charging process and/or charging status of the accumulator (A), wherein an end of the charging coil (L2) is connected to the cathode of the diode (D2) and the anode of the light emitting diode (LED) and the negative pole of the accumulator (A) is connected to the anode of the diode (D2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten Klemm, Joachim Lepper, Matthias Schiebahn
  • Patent number: 8310202
    Abstract: A power transmission system includes a loosely coupled air core transformer having a resonance frequency determined by a product of inductance and capacitance of a primary circuit including a primary coil. A secondary circuit is configured to have a substantially same product of inductance and capacitance. A back EMF generating device (e.g., a battery), which generates a back EMF with power transfer, is attached to the secondary circuit. Once the load power of the back EMF generating device exceeds a certain threshold level, which depends on the system parameters, the power transfer can be achieved at higher transfer efficiency if performed at an operating frequency less than the resonance frequency, which can be from 50% to 95% of the resonance frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLC
    Inventor: Matthew B. Scudiere
  • Patent number: 8291800
    Abstract: A combination power tool with a machine base, an independently operable portable circular saw, and a connection device for fastening the portable circular saw to the machine base to form a miter saw. The portable circular saw has a power supply unit including a first power socket that is provided at the front side of the portable circular saw and selectively electrically connectable to the motor of the portable circular saw, a second power socket provided at the rear side of the portable circular saw and selectively electrically connectable to the motor of the portable circular saw, and a power cable for connecting an external power source to one of the first power socket and the second power socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Rexon Industrial Corp., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yen-Chih Chang, Cheng-Hung Chiu
  • Publication number: 20120248902
    Abstract: A power tool has a motor having a stator made by separately forming pole pieces and field coils. The field coils are placed over necks of the pole path pieces. An armature has an outside diameter of at least 0.625 the outside diameter of the stator is placed in the stator. The housing has a girth of 200 mm or less with the motor wound to provide a maximum watts out to housing girth ratio of at least 5 maximum watts outs to 1 mm of housing girth. The field coils may be formed so that they extend beyond pole tips of the pole pieces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Hung T. Du, Earl M. Ortt, Brandon L. Verbrugge, Garrett P. McCormick, Michael A. Zemlock, Eric J. Samuelsen, Kevin M. Hogan, Jiaqi Zhang, Ren Hong Wang, Frank A. Mannarino, Allison A. Smith, Spencer G. Maid, Therese M. Rakosky, Kyle J. Wheaton, Antonios M. Nicolaidis, Shane Ashley Moll, James C. Benton, Eric L. Bernstein
  • Publication number: 20120235520
    Abstract: A hand tool is disclosed. A polarity reversing switch has first contact devices which are immovable with respect to a machine housing and second contact devices on a brush holder. An operating element is adjustable between two positions for changing a direction of travel of an electric motor. At least one of the first contact devices has a first metal strip and a first spring. A section of the first metal strip has a first contact face for contacting one of the second contact devices. The first spring is prestressed in the direction toward the second contact device. At least one of the second contact devices has a second metal strip and a second spring. A section of the second metal strip has a second contact face for contacting one of the first contact devices. The second spring is prestressed in the direction of the first contact device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Helmut BURGER
  • Publication number: 20120228968
    Abstract: A handheld electric mixer has a rotational output spindle for holding mixer work pieces, first and second gears located on the rotational output spindle, and a motor. The first gear is rotationally coupled to the motor output shaft. The mixer includes a two-speed gear-box receiving torque from the motor, and transmitting the torque to the output spindle. The two-speed gear-box includes a rotational lay shaft axially parallel to the rotational output spindle, third and fourth gears located on the lay shaft, the third gear meshing with the first gear and the fourth gear meshing with the second gear. A selector mechanism selects between a first gear ratio and a second gear ratio and includes a clutch disk on the spindle, and moveable axially for alternatively engaging and rotatably locking the one of the third or fourth gears that is engaged with the clutch disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: MAIN POWER ELECTRICAL FACTORY LTD.
    Inventors: William Kwok Kay LEE, Mei Chee Choi, Bo GAO
  • Patent number: 8253285
    Abstract: A power tool includes a housing, a brushless motor, and a cover member. The housing has an air intake hole and an air exhaust hole formed therein, the housing having an inner surface. The brushless motor has an outer surface disposed in the housing, a first endface near the air intake hole, and a second endface near the air exhaust hole. The cover member covers at least one of the first endface and the second endface for preventing dust from entering the brushless motor. The inner surface of the housing and outer surface of the brushless motor define a circulation path providing communication between the air intake hole and the air exhaust hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichirou Yoshida, Katsuhiro Oomori, Yoshihiro Komuro, Kazutaka Iwata
  • Patent number: 8242744
    Abstract: In a battery charger for charging a built-in secondary battery of a compact electric apparatus such as an electric shaver, an erroneous detection due to incomplete mounting of the compact electric apparatus on a mounting base is prevented with a simple and inexpensive configuration. A detection structure for detecting mounting of the compact electric apparatus on the mounting base comprises a charge contact member, a common contact member and a signal contact member which are electrically connected to a positive power source line, a negative power source line and a control signal line of the compact electric apparatus, respectively. A detection contact which electrically connects the signal contact member to the common contact member when the compact electric apparatus is not mounted on the mounting base is integrally formed on the signal contact member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhide Matsuoka, Fumio Taniguchi, Daisuke Sone
  • Publication number: 20120200181
    Abstract: A power tool includes a housing, a brushless motor, and a cover member. The housing has an air intake hole and an air exhaust hole formed therein, the housing having an inner surface. The brushless motor has an outer surface disposed in the housing, a first endface near the air intake hole, and a second endface near the air exhaust hole. The cover member covers at least one of the first endface and the second endface for preventing dust from entering the brushless motor. The inner surface of the housing and outer surface of the brushless motor define a circulation path providing communication between the air intake hole and the air exhaust hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Inventors: Kenichirou Yoshida, Katsuhiro Oomori, Yoshihiro Komuro, Kazutaka Iwata
  • Patent number: 8227948
    Abstract: An electric motor includes an upper housing, a lower housing including a flange for mounting the upper housing thereon and a cone-shaped portion extending away from the flange and the upper housing. The electric motor further includes a stator assembly formed of a first core having a first height and fitted into the upper housing, a rotor assembly rigidly joined to a shaft to rotate therewith in the stator assembly and formed of a second core having a second height, and a hub connected to a lower end of the shaft to rotate therewith in relation to the cone-shaped portion. The hub is configured to secure an operable implement to the electric motor. The second height is greater than the first height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Hydro-Gear Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Ivan E. Fox, Christopher K. Wyatt, Jim Hendershot
  • Patent number: 8217610
    Abstract: A power tool includes a motor, a first device and a second device. The motor receives a supply of an electric power from a power source externally of the power tool. The first device determines if the electric power supplied from the power source is an AC power or a DC power. The second device permits or interrupts the supply of the electric power to the motor depending on the determination of the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8205684
    Abstract: A pistol and/or clam shell style power tool housing. With respect to the pistol style housing, the tool housing includes a body defining a head portion with a handle portion depending therefrom to define a forward and/or a rear junction. A metal reinforcing member is configured to span along an inside surface of the body from the head portion to the handle portion such that the reinforcing member bridges either the forward or rear junction. In at least one embodiment, the reinforcing member is provided along each lateral side of the tool body. With respect to the clam shell style housing, with two opposed body halves interconnected to define the tool housing body, at least one continuous reinforcing ring is positioned about both halves of the tool housing body to prevent splitting between the two halves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Company
    Inventors: Christopher Anthony Kokinelis, Warren Andrew Seith
  • Patent number: 8203239
    Abstract: An electric motor has a stator in which an armature is disposed. The armature has a lamination stack having slots in which magnet wires are wound. An armature shaft extends coaxially through the lamination stack and a commutator is disposed on the armature shaft to which ends of the magnet wires are electrically coupled. The magnet wires are at least partially encased in thermally conductive plastic. When the thermally conductive plastic is molded, a balancing feature is formed of the thermally conductive plastic. In aspects, the balancing feature can include a layer of the plastic from which plastic can be removed during balancing; one or more balancing rings adjacent axial sides of the lamination stack from which plastic can be removed to balance the armature; or one or more balancing rings having one or more pockets therein in which one or more weights are disposed to balance the armature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Hung T. Du, Richard T. Walter
  • Patent number: 8196674
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a technique that contributes to further improvement of an impact tool. A representative impact tool includes a motor, a tool body that houses the motor, a dynamic vibration reducer and a driving mechanism part that is driven by the motor and forcibly drives the dynamic vibration reducer by applying an external force other than vibration of the tool body to the dynamic vibration reducer, during hammering operation. At least one of the dynamic vibration reducer and the driving mechanism part is mounted to the tool body in a form of an assembly into which at least one of a plurality of component parts forming the dynamic vibration reducer and a plurality of component parts forming the driving mechanism part are assembled in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Ikuta, Shin Nakamura, Yoshio Sugiyama, Masao Miwa, Takuya Sumi, Takuo Arakawa
  • Publication number: 20120139456
    Abstract: When a main switch (12) is turned ON, an electric operating machine (1) is put in the standby mode. With a trigger (13) being pulled in the standby mode, a power supply circuit (16) applies a voltage to a drive part (30). The power supply circuit (16) adjusts the voltage applied to the drive part (30) for a voltage corresponding to the pulling rate of the trigger (13). When the current running toward the drive part (30) exceeds the rated value of the drive part (30), the power supply circuit (16) automatically stops power supply to the drive part (30). On the other hand, when the output voltage of a battery (50) drops and the battery (50) is put in an overdischarge state, power supply to the drive part (30) is automatically stopped. When it is detected that the battery (50) undergoes an abnormal event, power supply to the drive part (30) is automatically stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Takano, Kazuhiko Funabashi, Hideyuki Tanimoto, Chikai Yoshimizu, Hiromi Ozawa, Yoshihiro Hoshi
  • Publication number: 20120119600
    Abstract: A series-wound DC motor is disclosed comprising a stator having at least two poles and an armature, each pole comprising at least one field winding which is connected in series with an armature winding, and further comprising at least one permanent magnet arranged on each pole, whose magnetic field is superimposed on the main field produced by the at least one field winding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventor: Lothar Dietl
  • Publication number: 20120104881
    Abstract: A motor has an output shaft which is rotatably supported by a housing, a rotor which is fixed to the output shaft and which comprises a printed-wiring board, and a stator which is fixed to the housing and which comprises a magnet facing the rotor. The printed-wiring board comprises a coil/commutator disk and a coil disk. A commutator conductor pattern is formed in a commutator region of the coil/commutator disk. Likewise, coil conductor patterns are formed in respective coil regions of the coil/commutator disk and of the coil disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tanimoto, Chikai Yoshimizu, Nobuhiro Takano, Hiromi Ozawa, Kazuhiko Funabashi
  • Publication number: 20120104983
    Abstract: An electric grasscutter includes a motor (50) which drives a rotary blade (42). The motor (50) is a brushless motor accommodated in a motor housing (51) and including a rotor (53) provided integrally with an output shaft (52), and a stator (54) fixed to the motor housing (51). A motor control circuit which drives the motor (50) is accommodated in the motor housing (51). The motor control circuit includes an inverter having FETs (81-86) as switching elements, and a control section to control the FETs (81-86). The FETs (81-86) are fixed in contact with the motor housing (51).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tanimoto, Chikai Yoshimizu, Nobuhiro Takano, Hiromi Ozawa, Kazuhiko Funabashi
  • Patent number: 8162530
    Abstract: A handheld electric mixer has a variable speed motor and a two-speed gearbox for transmitting driving torque of the motor to a pair of work pieces that mix, blend, beat or otherwise act upon a food item or recipe constituents. The gear box has a first gear ratio for providing a first range of output speeds and a second gear ratio for providing a second range of output speeds. The first ratio transmits at least twice as much torque to the rotational work pieces as does the second ratio. There is an electronic speed controller for controlling rotational speed the motor and a separate ratio selector for selecting between the first and second ratios of the gearbox.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Main Power Electrical Factory Ltd.
    Inventor: William Kwok Kay Lee
  • Publication number: 20120086290
    Abstract: A vibratory appliance includes a tool driven to oscillate by a rotary electric motor. A mechanism for converting rotary movement to oscillatory movement includes magnetic couplers moveable relative to one another. A displacement mechanism moves one of the magnetic couplers relative to the other magnetic coupler and varies the amplitude of oscillation of the tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: HAYCO MANUFACTURING LIMITED
    Inventors: Bengt IVARSSON, Bettina LEINWEBER, Hei Wai CHOI, David DYCHER, Greg SPOONER, Hoss VONG, James MACKINTOSH, Yee Wah LAM, Teruo HISHIKI
  • Patent number: 8154249
    Abstract: An electrical combination including a driver drill capable of producing an average current draw of approximately 20-amps, a circular saw capable of producing an average current draw of approximately 20-amps, and a power tool battery pack operable to supply power to the driver drill and to the circular saw, the battery pack including a plurality of battery cells, the plurality of battery cells each having a lithium-based chemistry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Todd W. Johnson, Dennis J. Grzybowski, Mark A. Kubale, Jay J. Rosenbecker, Gary D. Meyer, Jeffrey M. Zeiler, Kevin L. Glasgow, Karl F. Schuecher
  • Publication number: 20120080963
    Abstract: An electric power tool of the present invention includes a motor used as a drive source housed in a dual-separated type housing and includes a bearing support member that covers the outer circumferential surface of a bearing of the motor and supports the bearing from outside in the radial direction, and is configured such that the bearing and one end of the bearing support member in the axial direction are inserted in a tool component disposed coaxially, and a protruding portion that is the other end of the bearing support member and axially protrudes from the tool component is supported by receiving portions of a pair of housing parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuji Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20120076672
    Abstract: A handheld blower apparatus includes a housing (2), an axial blower (6) which conveys air through a blower tube (7), and an electric drive motor (4). The drive motor (4) has a rotor (22) and a stator (21) and rotatably drives a drive shaft (16) and at least one fan wheel (23) of the axial blower (6). A simple construction results when the drive shaft (16) is rotatably mounted in the housing (2), when the rotor (22) of the drive motor (4) is connected to the drive shaft (16) in a rotatably fixed manner and the stator (21) of the drive motor (4) is rotatably mounted on the drive shaft (16). The stator (21) is supported relative to the housing (2) to prevent rotation and can tilt in a limited manner relative to the housing (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Inventor: Andreas Binder
  • Publication number: 20120068557
    Abstract: An electric motor arrangement for a medical, especially dental, tool handle, which is extremely compact and resistant to sterilizing temperatures due to a plurality of advantageous embodiments. The electric motor arrangement is characterized by the following properties: the use of a light source based on SMD-LED or LED as a semiconductor chip; the shortening of the INTRAmatic coupling to between 20 mm and 25 mm; a hermetically extruded stator comprising integrated media tubes and molded connection sockets; the stator winding is embodied as a coil segment winding instead of an H winding or triangle; and the winding head has openings for media tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: Kaltenbach & Voigt GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Duesing, Alfons Mader, Johann Stempfle
  • Publication number: 20120013204
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to secure an insulation distance between a stator and a rotor without reducing a region of a slot of a stator core in which a winding is installed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji KAWAI, Hiroshi MURASE, Ken OKUDAIRA
  • Publication number: 20120013205
    Abstract: A device for reversing the direction of rotation and/or for adjusting the carbon brushes for a reversible electric motor, in particular for an electric hand tool, with a base and with a mount, which is mounted pivotably on the base and on which brushholders for the carbon brushes wiping over the collector of the electric motor are arranged. The electric motor can be driven by means of power electronics, such as a pulse width controller, a phase gating controller, a phase chopping controller or the like. The power electronics are arranged on the base and/or on the mount. The device furthermore has fixed contacts and switching contacts, which interact with alternate contact-making for reversing the direction of rotation of the electric motor as the mount is pivoted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: Marquardt GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas FUCHS, Klaus Fiederer, Lars Girsberger, Emiliano Villanova
  • Publication number: 20120013203
    Abstract: An electric motor is disclosed and which includes a braking element which is biasingly urged into a braking relationship relative to the electric motor, when the electric motor is deenergized, but which is further moved out of braking engagement when the electric motor is energized. The invention finds particular usefulness when used on hand tools, such as angle grinders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Inventors: Matthias Hiller, Andreas Spielmann
  • Patent number: 8087475
    Abstract: An electric power tool has a housing having an inlet opening and an outlet opening, a drive motor contained in the housing, an electronic unit for controlling and regulating the drive unit, a fan a main air conduit extending between the inlet opening and the outlet opening of the housing, the drive motor being situated in the main air conduit supplyable with cooling air, and a heat sink operative for indirectly cooling the electronic unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Winfried Habel, Frank Fuchs, Andreas Schlegel, Holger Frank
  • Patent number: 8084901
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a power tool including: a housing having a suction port formed thereon to introduce an cooling air from an outside of the housing; and a brushless motor that is housed in the housing and has an electric circuit, the electric circuit having a heat radiating surface, wherein the heat radiating surface is disposed in a neighborhood of the suction port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Oomori, Yoshihiro Komuro, Kenichirou Yoshida, Kazutaka Iwata
  • Patent number: 8084900
    Abstract: A stater of an electrical machine has a cross section, a longitudinal extension, a jacket surface, a plurality of winding holders configured so that at least one of the winding holders for receiving a field winding has a larger winding width than another of the winding holders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ludwig Schoen, Florian Esenwein
  • Patent number: 8075155
    Abstract: An electric power tool, which comprises a motor that drives a tool, a power source unit that applies voltage to the motor, a main switching circuit that makes/breaks an electrical connection between the power source unit and the motor, an illuminator that illuminates a work spot, a switching device that electrically connects the illuminator to the power source unit, and an OR circuit that is electrically connected to terminals of the motor to the base terminal is provided. The OR circuit electrically connects one of the motor terminals at which a voltage is higher to the base terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Watanabe, Jiro Suzuki, Takuya Kusakawa
  • Publication number: 20110298313
    Abstract: A permanent magnet electric motor has a stator and a rotor. The stator has a stator housing with at least a North pole and a South pole, each pole including permanent magnets affixed to an inner surface of the stator housing, where at least two of the magnets within a pole have dissimilar characteristics, e.g., different widths or different grades of demagnetization resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Osborne, Colin Crosby, Sankarshan Murthy, Hung T. Du, Earl M. Ortt
  • Publication number: 20110285218
    Abstract: An installation structure of a temperature sensor in a brush motor includes a holding plate; a metal-made fixing base; and a brush holder arranged on the fixing base to hold a brush in place. The metal-made fixing base is provided on the holding plate, and the fixing base includes a sensor attachment portion to which the temperature sensor is attached. Further, the sensor attachment portion is positioned outside the holding plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: Panasonic Electric Works Power Tools Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki TSUBAKIMOTO, Koichi HASHIMOTO, Masahide SIRATANI, Naotake TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20110273037
    Abstract: A brushless DC motor includes a rotor having a shaft and a column-shaped magnet in which a through hole is formed at a center of the magnet in the axial direction for allowing the shaft to be inserted and also allowing resin to be filled in a space between an inner wall surface of the through hole and an outer surface of the shaft, wherein the inner wall surface of the through hole of the magnet and the outer surface of the shaft are formed into shapes which can prevent relative rotation of the shaft with respect to the magnet via the resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi OTA, Ken IKUTA
  • Publication number: 20110273036
    Abstract: A power tool has a direct current motor and power electronics including power components and logic components for operating the direct current motor. The power components are situated on the direct current motor as a power unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventor: Dietmar Saur