Patents Assigned to Festool GmbH
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Publication number: 20220088734Abstract: A functional unit, in particular for a tool, a tool accessory and/or a lighting apparatus, that includes a housing, a suction region, which is arranged on the housing and with which the fastening apparatus can be fastened releasably to a substrate, and an electrically operated negative-pressure unit, which is arranged in the housing and to provide a negative pressure in the suction region. The fastening apparatus also includes at least one fastening interface for fastening the functional unit. Alternatively, or additionally, the fastening apparatus includes the functional unit. The functional unit includes a guide device, in particular a guide rail, a router guide, a routing template, a rolling guide rail, a drilling apparatus, a lamp and/or a grazing light.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2020Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: FESTOOL GMBHInventors: Wolfgang SPENGLER, Jonathan WEIK
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Publication number: 20220048119Abstract: Handheld power tool having a housing with a machining axis along which a tool is or can be arranged, and having a lighting device that has at least one activatable lamp, the lighting device generating work light within a beam angle with an increased or maximum light intensity in a main emission direction in order to illuminate a work region, and having at least one light sensor for measuring the light intensity, characterized in that the light sensor detects the light intensity of the work light reflected on the work region during operation and generates control signals representing the light intensity, in that an adjustment unit is provided for setting and/or adjusting the work light generated by the lighting device, and in that a control unit is provided which controls the adjustment unit on the basis of the sensor signals during operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2020Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: FESTOOL GMBHInventors: Marc Rusch, Peter Seiler
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Publication number: 20220040810Abstract: The invention relates to a handheld machine tool, in particular a surface-finishing machine that includes a machining head, a handle part, and a connection arrangement which connects the machining head to the handle part, a tube outlet for connecting a tube being formed on the connection arrangement or on the handle part, a tube-holding device for holding the tube being provided on the handle part so as to be spaced apart from the tube outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2020Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: Festool GmbHInventors: Johann Schlosser, Simon Groeger, Hans-Peter Albrecht
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Publication number: 20220040838Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2020Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: Festool GmbHInventors: Stefan Tulodziecki, Hans-Peter Albrecht
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Publication number: 20220016723Abstract: A power tool with a rotatable tool designed as a saw blade or a milling cutter, including a sensor device for detecting a mechanical quantity, the mechanical quantity having a force, an acceleration, a velocity, a deflection, a deformation and/or a mechanical stress, and the mechanical quantity being dependent on a force emanating from the tool, and a control device communicatively coupled to the sensor device, which control device is adapted to recognize a kickback event based on the detected mechanical quantity, where the control device is adapted to selectively determine a first recognition function or a second recognition function different from the first recognition function based on a function determination information, and to perform the recognition of the kickback event based on the detected mechanical quantity using the determined recognition function.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicant: FESTOOL GMBHInventors: Markus SCHMID, Marc RUSCH
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Patent number: 11226608Abstract: A system for machining a workpiece, comprising a hand-held power tool having a drive motor, a tool holder, which can be driven by the drive motor, for a working tool for machining the workpiece, and a guide element with a guide surface for guiding the hand-held power tool on the workpiece, having a marker detection device for detecting coordinate data of at least one workpiece marker of the workpiece, wherein the hand-held power tool has guide means for guiding the working tool along the workpiece according to the coordinate data of the at least one workpiece marker. The marker detection device has an optical and/or mechanical reference which can be positioned on and/or directly next to the at least one workpiece marker.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2018Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: FESTOOL GMBHInventors: Marc Rusch, Matthias Kübeler
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Publication number: 20220009012Abstract: A power tool with a rotatable tool designed as a saw blade or a milling cutter, including a sensor device for detecting a mechanical quantity, the mechanical quantity having a force, an acceleration, a velocity, a deflection, a deformation and/or a mechanical stress, and the mechanical quantity being dependent on a force emanating from the tool, and a control device communicatively coupled to the sensor device, which control device is adapted to recognize a kickback event based on the detected mechanical quantity, where the control device is adapted to selectively determine a first recognition function or a second recognition function different from the first recognition function based on a function determination information, and to perform the recognition of the kickback event based on the detected mechanical quantity using the determined recognition function.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: FESTOOL GMBHInventors: Markus SCHMID, Marc RUSCH
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Publication number: 20220009074Abstract: A connection assembly for connecting a tool head and a further machine module of a machine tool, in particular a surface finishing machine, wherein the connection assembly (10) 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: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2020Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: Festool GmbHInventors: Stefan TULODZIECKI, Hans-Peter ALBRECHT
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Publication number: 20220001570Abstract: A power tool, in particular a hand-held power tool, including a support section for setting down the power tool on a substrate, in particular on a workpiece and/or a guide element. The power tool has a support detection device and is designed to detect, by the support detection device, a first support state, in which the power tool is supported on the substrate by way of at least one first region of the support surface, and/or a second support state, in which the power tool is not resting on the substrate by way of at least the first region, and to determine an operating state of the power tool on the basis of the detected support state.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: FESTOOL GMBHInventors: Marc RUSCH, Markus SCHMID
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Publication number: 20210393096Abstract: A connection device for the fluidic connection of a suction tube to a function unit. The connection device includes a first hollow-cylindrical connection section and a second hollow-cylindrical connection section. One of the connection sections is connectable or connected to the suction tube and the other connection section is connectable or connected to the function unit. One of the connection sections is located at least partly within the other connection section and with its outer periphery bears on the inner periphery of the other connection section, where the two connection sections are rotatably mounted, in order to provide a rotation compensation for the suction tube, and where an electrical connection for providing an antistatic function exists between the two connection sections. The first connection section includes a spring section which is deformable in the radial direction and with which the bearing contact on the second connection element takes place.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: Festool GmbHInventor: Steffen MAIER
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Publication number: 20210387373Abstract: The invention relates to a saw blade cover (40) for a bench saw (10), to an angle stop (50) for a bench saw and to a bench saw (10, 20, 30). The saw blade cover (40) comprises a cover body (41) which is manufactured from a first material as well as a contact region (47) which comprises a sliding section (48) which is manufactured from a second material and along which the workpiece (11) can slide on contact with the contact region (47). The stop unit (50) comprises a stop arm (55) with a main section (51) which is manufactured of a first material and with an end section (52) which is manufactured of a second material. The bench saw comprises a cover flap (87) which covers a gap between the housing arrangement (09 and a lay-on section lower side (14), said gap arising given a pivoting of the housing arrangement (80).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2020Publication date: December 16, 2021Applicant: FESTOOL GMBHInventors: Ondrej KOVÁCS, Václav ZVÁNOVEC
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Publication number: 20210387374Abstract: A stop unit, in particular to an angle stop, for guiding and/or for the feed of a workpiece to a saw blade of a bench saw, including a stop arm which extends in a longitudinal direction for the contact of the workpiece. The stop arm includes a main section which is manufactured from a first material and which extends over more than half the longitudinal extension of the stop arm, and at least one second end section which is arranged on an end of the main section which is located in the longitudinal direction. The second section is able to come into contact with the saw blade given an advance of the workpiece towards the saw blade, where the at least one end section is manufactured from a second material.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2020Publication date: December 16, 2021Applicant: Festool GmbHInventors: Ondrej KOVÁCS, Václav ZVÁNOVEC
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Publication number: 20210321845Abstract: A closure device for closing a particle capture volume, in particular a bag or a container, including an access element with an access element opening for providing an access to the particle capture volume, a closure slide which can be selectively displaced relative to the access element into a release position or into a closure position. In the release position the closure slide releases the access element opening and in the closure position closes the access element opening, and a locking mechanism for locking the closure slide in the closure position with respect to the access element, where the locking mechanism 6 for unlocking requires a defined unlocking element which is separate from the locking mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2019Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: FESTOOL GMBHInventor: Gerhard GREBING
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Patent number: 11130184Abstract: A table saw, preferably a circular table saw, with a support structure which can be placed on a support and on the upper side of which a workpiece support plate is provided, and with a saw blade projecting upwards over the workpiece support plate. The workpiece support plate is mounted so that it can slide in the sawing direction relative to the support structure and to the saw blade and has a splinter protection element arranged on a side of the workpiece support plate facing the saw blade. This side is guided past the saw blade when the workpiece support plate is moved.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2017Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: FESTOOL GMBHInventor: Dominic Richard Ender
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Publication number: 20210274989Abstract: A particle collection container that is designed as a stand structure for a cyclonic pre-separator, can be positioned on a flat underlying surface in a stable manner, and has an open upper face on which the cyclonic pre-separator can be placed, includes a rectangular container base and four container peripheral walls which extend upwards from the container base and define a horizontal outer contour of the particle collection container. The horizontal outer contour defined by the container peripheral walls tapers towards the container base, and the particle collection container can be stacked into an identical particle collection container.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2018Publication date: September 9, 2021Applicant: FESTOOL GMBHInventor: Gerhard GREBING
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Publication number: 20210251448Abstract: A particle receiving device for attachment to a particle outlet of a vacuum cleaner and/or of a cyclone separator and for receiving separated particles, including: a particle receiving volume for receiving the particles, an access element with an access element opening through which the particles can be transported into the particle receiving volume, and a closure element. The access element is selectively displaceable relative to the closure element into a closure position in which the closure element closes access opening, or into an open position in which the closure element releases the access element opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2019Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: FESTOOL GMBHInventor: Gerhard GREBING
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Patent number: 11084142Abstract: A hand-held machine tool, in particular a sanding machine, including a handle element for the user to grip and a processing head which has an electric drive motor for driving a tool holder provided for holding a processing tool, the hand-held machine tool having a power supply system for supplying power to the drive motor by means of a cable arrangement, via which the drive motor and the power supply system are interconnected. A protection circuit including at least one electric disconnector is arranged on the drive motor, in order to disconnect a connection between at least one electric cable of the cable arrangement and a phase of a field coil arrangement of the drive motor, which phase can be supplied with current via the cable.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2017Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Festool GmbHInventors: Nico Walker, Stefan Tulodziecki, Bernhard Kramer
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Patent number: 11077506Abstract: A transportable machining unit for machining a workpiece with a tool including a box-shaped support structure placed on a support and having a workpiece support plate used to support the workpiece and a drive unit for mechanically driving the tool, arranged at least partially in the support structure and fastened thereto ready for operation so that the drive unit remains at least partially in the support structure during machining of the workpiece by the tool driven by the drive unit. The support structure has supporting arms which define a footprint of the support structure and which can be positioned selectively in a transport or working position. The footprint of the support structure is larger in the working position in at least one horizontal direction than in the transport position.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2016Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: FESTOOL GMBHInventor: Dominic Richard Ender
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Patent number: 11040439Abstract: A hand-held machine tool, in particular a sanding machine, including a rod-type handle element for the user to grip and a processing head which is moveably mounted on the handle element by means of a joint assembly. The processing head has an electric drive motor for driving a tool holder provided for holding a processing tool and a speed-reducing gearbox between the drive motor and the tool holder, the gearbox being designed to achieve a reduction in speed of an output of the drive motor relative to a speed of the tool holder. The drive motor is a brushless motor and a power supply system for the drive motor is arranged at a distance from the drive motor on the handle element, the power supply system being connected to the drive motor by means of a cable arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2017Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: FESTOOL GMBHInventor: Nico Walker
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Patent number: D944474Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: FESTOOL GMBHInventor: Timo Kuhls