Patents Assigned to Festool GmbH
  • Patent number: 12678992
    Abstract: Bevel saws and methods of adjusting a fence of a bevel saw are disclosed herein. The bevel saws include a workpiece support that defines a workpiece support surface. The bevel saws also include a user-actuated assembly and an assembly attachment structure that operatively attaches the user-actuated assembly to the workpiece support. The assembly attachment structure includes a blade bevel angle adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a blade bevel angle of the bevel saw blade. The bevel saws also include a fence that defines a fence surface that extends away from the workpiece support surface. The fence includes a first fence region and a second fence region. The first fence region and the second fence region define a blade-receiving gap therebetween, and the fence further includes a gap adjustment mechanism configured to automatically adjust the blade-receiving gap based, at least in part, on the blade bevel angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Festool GmbH
    Inventors: Josua Frank, Christian Schock, Andreas Sdrzallek, Felix Brennenstuhl, Benjamin Brehm
  • Publication number: 20260183895
    Abstract: A hand-held grinding machine includes a disc tool having a machining face for machining a workpiece; and a machine housing in which a drive motor for driving a tool holder is arranged, on which holder the disc tool is arranged, wherein: the machine housing includes a drive portion having a motor housing, which includes a motor-accommodating space in which the drive motor is accommodated; and the motor housing includes a single-piece peripheral wall which annularly surrounds the motor-accommodating space. A connection protrusion which extends along a machine longitudinal axis of the machine housing and which is in particular formed in a single piece with the machine housing is arranged on the peripheral wall, on which connection protrusion an energy-storage-device interface is arranged for detachably connecting an electrical energy storage device for supplying electrical energy to the hand-held grinding machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: July 2, 2026
    Applicant: Festool GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan TULODZIECKI, Michael HIGELIN
  • Patent number: 12661824
    Abstract: A circular saw has a blade that moves relative to a stationary base structure during operative use of the circular saw to cut a workpiece and methods of detecting a kickback condition of such a circular saw. The circular saw includes a base structure, a user-actuated assembly, an attachment structure, and a controller. The attachment structure is configured to permit constrained relative motion between the base structure and the user-actuated assembly in a motion direction and during operative use of the circular saw to cut the workpiece. A motion sensor is configured to generate a motion signal indicative of motion of the user-actuated assembly along the motion direction. The controller is programmed to initiate a kickback response of the circular saw responsive to the motion signal being indicative of a kickback condition of the circular saw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Festool GmbH
    Inventors: Maximilian Markus Schlögel, Markus Schmid, Markus Wildermuth, Josua Frank, Dominik Hilpert
  • Publication number: 20260166705
    Abstract: A connection assembly for connecting a tool head and a further machine module of a hand-guided machine tool wherein the connection assembly includes at least two connection parts following one another along a longitudinal axis and each having a connection section via which the connection parts are connectable to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2026
    Publication date: June 18, 2026
    Applicant: Festool GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan TULODZIECKI, Hans-Peter ALBRECHT
  • Patent number: 12654308
    Abstract: An exoskeleton device including an exoskeleton with a base section, a support section movably coupled to the base section for supporting a body part of the human body, and an actuator device acting on the support section for providing a support force for the body part. The exoskeleton device further includes a sensor device for detecting a risk variable which includes a movement of the support section and/or a force and/or a pressure between the support section and the body part, and a control device for controlling the actuator device. The control device is configured to detect a risk state on the basis of the detected risk variable, in which risk state there is a risk of health impairment and/or damage, and to initiate a safety measure in response to the detection of the risk state, which comprises outputting a warning signal and/or counteracting the risk state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Festool GmbH
    Inventors: Bernward Otten, Robert Weidner
  • Patent number: 12654351
    Abstract: Circular saws include blade mounts for circular saw blades and methods of attaching circular saw blades to circular saws. The circular saws include a motor, an arbor, and a blade mount. The motor includes a motor shaft configured to rotate about a shaft rotational axis. The arbor is configured to receive a torque from the motor when the motor shaft rotates about the shaft rotational axis. The blade mount is operatively attached to the arbor and is configured to selectively and operatively attach a circular saw blade to the arbor. The blade mount includes an inner flange that includes an inner flange blade-contacting surface that faces away from the motor. The inner flange is free from any structure that projects away from the motor and also away from the inner flange blade-contacting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Festool GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Werbach, Tobias Hoefer
  • Patent number: 12643189
    Abstract: A mobile machine tool for processing a surface of a workpiece or a room, wherein the machine tool includes a working device with a plate tool for processing the surface and a drive motor for driving the plate tool, which tool has a processing surface assigned to processing a workpiece and a machine side opposite to the processing surface, wherein intake air inflow openings are arranged on the surface to be processed for suctioning the processing surface onto the surface to be processed, which openings are flow-connected to at least one intake air outflow opening arranged on the plate tool away from the processing surface, wherein the plate tool includes at least one additional air inflow opening for the inflow of additional air, which is flow-connected to at least one additional air outflow opening arranged away from the processing surface, and wherein the machine tool includes an intake device for generating an intake air flow and/or a negative pressure at the at least one intake air outflow opening and the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: Festool GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Tulodziecki, Mutasem Rabah
  • Publication number: 20260102034
    Abstract: A filter bag apparatus for a vacuum-cleaning unit is arrangeable in a vacuum-cleaning unit accommodation space of the unit and has a filter bag having a dust accommodation space for collecting dust. The apparatus has a closure device for closing off the bag outlet that includes a hose body arranged on a bag outlet and having a hose outlet flow-connected to the bag outlet for emptying dust out of the dust accommodation space. The body extends along a longitudinal expanse between the bag and hose outlets, and has a wrapper section between the bag and hose outlets that can be wrapped up toward the bag outlet, from a pass-through position for emptying the dust out of the dust accommodation space and is unwrapped, in particular elongated, along a wrapper path, into a wrapped position, in which the bag outlet is closed off to form a wrapper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2025
    Publication date: April 16, 2026
    Applicant: Festool GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut FISCHER, Ulrich KASPER
  • Patent number: 12576503
    Abstract: A connection assembly for connecting a tool head and a further machine module of a hand-guided machine tool wherein the connection assembly includes at least two connection parts following one another along a longitudinal axis and each having a connection section via which the connection parts are connectable to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: Festool GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Tulodziecki, Hans-Peter Albrecht
  • Patent number: 12569975
    Abstract: A machine tool in the form of a hand-held power tool or a semi-stationary machine tool, the machine tool having a tool holder for holding a work tool, a drive motor for driving the tool holder and at least one electrical function unit, the machine tool having a control device for actuating the at least one electrical function unit using at least one actuation function, the at least one electrical function unit being designed to perform an output function depending on the actuation by the at least one actuation function, and the machine tool having at least one operation element, which can be moved by an operator of the machine tool between a first operation element position and at least one second operation element position to actuate the control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2026
    Assignee: Festool GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Seybold, Christoph Martin Single, Steffen Wandel
  • Publication number: 20260042180
    Abstract: An emergency braking assembly for a motor-driven tool has a holding structure, a braking element movably mounted on the holding structure, and a wire-like actuation element, which has a shape-memory alloy. A first end of the actuation element is attached to the holding structure. A second end of the actuation element is drivingly coupled to the braking element. A method operates the emergency braking assembly. The braking element is set in motion by the actuation element and then a motion coupling between actuation element and braking element is cancelled or terminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 12, 2026
    Applicant: Festool GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Schmid, Josua Frank, Christian Schock, Kevin Doll
  • Publication number: 20260034592
    Abstract: A support assembly for a guide rail for a cutting tool is described. The support assembly includes a base element with a mechanical interface which is configured for a detachable connection with the guide rail. Further, a support arm having a first end pivotably supported on the base element and a second end configured to support the support assembly on a support surface is provided. The support assembly additionally includes a locking mechanism configured to selectively lock the support arm with respect to the base element in at least two different relative pivotal positions. Furthermore, a guiding assembly for a cutting tool as well as a use of a guiding assembly is presented. Also, a use of a support assembly is described. Moreover, a method for operating a guiding assembly is explained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2025
    Publication date: February 5, 2026
    Applicant: Festool GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Spengler, Andreas Randecker, Marco Christoph Brosch, Boris Seyfried
  • Patent number: 12521804
    Abstract: A handheld machine saw having a saw assembly, which has a saw toolholder for a saw tool and a saw drive motor for driving the saw toolholder, and having a guide device, which has a guide body having a guide surface extending along a longitudinal axis for guiding the handheld machine saw along a working direction on a workpiece or a guide rail, wherein the handheld machine saw has a scoring assembly, which is arranged in front of the saw assembly on the guide device with respect to the working direction, having a scorer toolholder for a scoring tool and having a scoring drive for driving the scorer toolholder, wherein a score upstream from the saw cut to be introduced in the working direction can be introduced into the workpiece by means of the scoring tool protruding in front of the guide surface in scoring operation of the handheld machine tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2026
    Assignee: Festool GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Höfer, Martin Werbach, Patrick Schnelle, Philipp Sobl
  • Patent number: 12520980
    Abstract: An electrical device, in particular in the form of a suction device (10) or a machine tool, with a housing (20) in which at least one electrical load, in particular an electric drive motor (11D), is arranged, wherein the electrical device has a power supply unit (80) with an energy storage receptacle (81), for the electrical power supply of the electrical load, in particular the drive motor (11D), in the interior of which at least two device interfaces (90A, 90B) for the detachable connection of a respective energy storage interface (190A, 190B) of an electrical energy storage (170A, 170B), in particular a battery pack, are arranged. The device interfaces (90A, 90B) are arranged on opposite side walls (83, 84) of the energy storage receptacle (81), so that the energy storages (170A, 170B) can be arranged on the device interfaces (90A, 90B) with mutually facing bottom walls (175).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2026
    Assignee: FESTOOL GMBH
    Inventors: Rainer Hafenrichter, Jan Kopf
  • Patent number: 12516763
    Abstract: A connector for coupling a particle outlet of a handheld machine tool to a particle receiving device is described. The connector has a tube-shaped inlet portion extending along an inlet axis and a tube-shaped outlet portion extending along an outlet axis. The tube-shaped outlet portion is for coupling to the particle receiving device. The inlet portion has a body section and an engagement section. The engagement section is resiliently coupled to the body section. The engagement section has an engagement geometry for mating with an engagement counter-geometry on the particle outlet, such that a positive locking effective along a circumferential direction is provided between the engagement geometry and the engagement counter-geometry. Moreover, a lock is coupled to the inlet portion. The lock is for selectively blocking a movement of the engagement section relative to the body section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2025
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2026
    Assignee: FESTOOL GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Spengler, Jonathan Caputo, Boris Seyfried, Jonathan Weik, Marco Christoph Brosch
  • Patent number: 12496698
    Abstract: A power tool, in particular a hand-held power tool, for example a polishing device, a grinding device, a sawing device and/or a router, with a tool, an electric motor for driving the tool and a control unit for controlling the electric motor, in which the power tool is designed for connection to an AC supply voltage and includes a rectifier arrangement with an intermediate circuit for providing an intermediate circuit voltage on the basis of the AC supply voltage. The intermediate circuit voltage has a plurality of successive voltage half-waves, and in which the control unit is configured to calculate, for each voltage half-wave, a respective torque half-wave for controlling the electric motor, the control unit being configured to sample each voltage half-wave in order to obtain a plurality of voltage half-wave values, and to convert each voltage half-wave value into a respective torque half-wave value in order to calculate the respective torque half-wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2025
    Assignee: Festool GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Hofmann, Michael Thüringer, Michal Calta
  • Publication number: 20250354576
    Abstract: A connector mechanically connects a first workpiece and a second workpiece. The connector is plate-shaped or flat bar-shaped and has a first engagement element for engaging a first undercut of a first coupling groove and a second engagement element for engaging a second undercut of a second coupling groove. Moreover, the connector has an actuation body for selectively bringing the connector in a connection state in which the first engagement element is positioned to engage the first undercut and the second engagement element is positioned to engage the second undercut, and for selectively bringing the connector in a release state in which the first engagement element is configured to be withdrawn from the first undercut and the second engagement element is configured to be withdrawn from the second undercut. An actuation interface is provided on the actuation body. The actuation interface is arranged eccentrically along an insertion direction (D).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2025
    Publication date: November 20, 2025
    Applicant: Festool GmbH
    Inventors: Leon Bächle, David Messer
  • Patent number: D1118297
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: FESTOOL GMBH
    Inventors: Florian Beck, Timo Kuhls
  • Patent number: D1124059
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: Festool GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Tulodziecki, Michael Higelin, Timo Kuhls
  • Patent number: D1135975
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: Festool GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Tulodziecki, Michael Higelin, Timo Kuhls