Abstract: A method for deforming a staple comprising a base, a first staple leg, and a second staple leg, wherein the base, the first staple leg, and the second staple leg are positioned within a common plane prior to being deformed, the method comprising positioning the first staple leg within a first cup of a staple pocket, the first cup comprising a first inner surface, applying a first compressive force to the first staple leg to bend the first staple leg toward the base and the second staple leg, contacting the first inner surface with the end of the first staple leg to bend the end of the first staple leg toward a first side of the base, and deforming the first staple leg such that the end of the first staple leg crosses a mid-line of the staple defined between the first staple leg and the second staple leg.

Abstract: Disclosed is an instrument assembly for performing a procedure. The instrument assembly may include a powered motor for moving, such as rotating, a tool tip. The instrument assembly may include a transmission or a gear assembly to provide varying speed and/or torque to the tool tip.

Abstract: An adjustable stroke mechanism has a housing with a central axis and a wall enclosing a cavity. At least one counterweight is movably disposed within the cavity. A mounting assembly is disposed within the cavity. The mounting assembly has a workpiece attachment mechanism. A stroke adjustor couples the at least one counterweight with the mounting assembly. The stroke adjustor enables the counterweight and mounting assembly to move with respect to one another such that a distance between the counterweight and the mounting assembly is variably adjusted which, in turn, variably adjusts a stroke radius of the workpiece attachment mechanism with respect to the central axis of the housing.

Abstract: A dust collector can be used with a hand-held power tool. The dust collector includes a housing, a telescoping suction pipe coupled to the housing, and a suction fan positioned within the housing and operable to generate a vacuum in the suction pipe. The suction pipe is configured to telescope toward and away from the housing. The suction pipe includes an outer pipe supported by the housing, and an inner pipe slidably received into the outer pipe.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system to engage a plurality of tools. In the system a drive shaft and collet may be assembled to engage and disengage, selectively, a plurality of tools. User selection may allow use of a plurality of tools during a procedure or during a plurality of procedures.

Abstract: A pneumatic tool with a forward and reverse rotation structure includes a housing, a retaining member, two push buttons and a positioning pin. The housing includes an installation space. The retaining member is arranged inside the installation space to divide it into two push button accommodating cavities. The two push buttons movably slide inside the two push button accommodating cavities. The retaining member restricts the sliding ranges of the two push buttons. The positioning pin penetrates into the housing to allow the retaining member to be secured by the housing and the positioning pin. Accordingly, the retaining member is secured firmly while allowing it be removed for replacement and repair, the positioning pin is prevented from slippage, and any slipping off or snapping off of components between the sliding block of the push button and the slot wall of the retaining member can also be prevented.

Abstract: A handheld power tool includes an output shaft, a drive unit, a securing ring, and a securing element. The output shaft is configured to be releasably connected to an insert tool of the handheld power tool. The drive unit is configured to transmit a movement to the output shaft. The securing element is configured to secure the securing ring. The securing element has a recess which is provided to surround the securing ring in the radial direction in at least one operating state.

Abstract: A hand-guided motorized working apparatus and an operating device for the apparatus are provided. The operating device has a handle shank configured to be hand-gripped, an operating element receiving region adjoining the handle shank, and an operating unit which acts on the apparatus operation and includes an operating element which is held movably on the operating element receiving region for actuation by a finger of a hand gripping the handle shank, and has a finger rest region extending along an outer side of the operating element receiving region.

Abstract: A power machine tool (1) of the present disclosure includes a housing (10) and a control board (20), a power device (30), a bearing set (40), a transmission mechanism (50) and a torque axle (60) disposed in the housing (10). The power device (30) is disposed in the housing (10) via the bearing set (40) and transmits a torque via the transmission mechanism (50). The torque axle (60) is connected to a rear side of the power device (30) and rotates with the power device (30). In addition, a torque sensor (2) is arranged on the rear side of the power device (30) to detect the torque of the power machine tool.

Abstract: A method for deforming a staple comprising a base, a first staple leg, and a second staple leg, wherein the base, the first staple leg, and the second staple leg are positioned within a common plane prior to being deformed, the method comprising positioning the first staple leg within a first cup of a staple pocket, the first cup comprising a first inner surface, applying a first compressive force to the first staple leg to bend the first staple leg toward the base and the second staple leg, contacting the first inner surface with the end of the first staple leg to bend the end of the first staple leg toward a first side of the base, and deforming the first staple leg such that the end of the first staple leg crosses a mid-line of the staple defined between the first staple leg and the second staple leg.

Abstract: A surgical robotic system includes a robotic arm, an elongated slide coupled to the robotic arm, and an instrument drive unit coupled to a track defined by the slide. The instrument drive unit is configured to move along the track and includes a motor configured to interface with an electromechanical instrument to actuate functions of the electromechanical instrument. The slide is configured to rotate relative to the robotic arm about a longitudinal axis defined by the instrument drive unit.

Abstract: A power tool including a rear cover simplifies assembly. A driver drill includes a motor including a stator and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, a motor housing accommodating the motor, being cylindrical, and including a left housing and a right housing being laterally separable, a grip connected to a lower portion of the motor housing, an output unit in front of the motor and driven by the motor, and a rear cover supporting a rear portion of the rotor and closing a rear portion of the motor housing. The rear cover is held and fastened between the left housing and the right housing.

Abstract: A power tool includes a tool housing and a mechanism disposed inside the tool housing. The tool housing has a composite structure that includes an outer layer and an inner layer. The outer layer provides an outer surface of the power tool housing and comprises a first material. The outer layer is an assembly of concave shell portions joined along parting lines. The inner layer is disposed on an inner surface of at least a portion of the outer layer so as to be disposed between the portion of the outer layer and the mechanism. The inner layer comprises a second material. The first material has a density that is at least three times the density of the second material. The inner layer has a peripheral edges that are offset relative to the parting lines such that the inner layer extends continuously across the parting lines.

Abstract: A power tool such as a portable cutting machine has less gear noise from, for example, a reduction gear train under no load. The power tool includes a blade, an electric motor including a motor shaft, and a gear train that transmits a rotational output from the electric motor to the blade. The gear train includes a first gear supported on the motor shaft, a countershaft, an intermediate gear meshing with the first gear and supported on the countershaft, a final shaft having a distal end attached to the blade, a final gear meshing with the intermediate gear and supported on the final shaft, and at least one elastic member between the final shaft and the final gear.

Abstract: A work tool includes a housing, a spindle, a motor, a power-transmitting mechanism and a restricting member. The power-transmitting mechanism includes a sun member, a ring member, a carrier member and a planetary roller. One of the sun member and the ring member is configured to move together with the spindle in the front-rear direction relative to the other of the sun member and the ring member. The power-transmitting mechanism is configured to transmit power of the motor to the spindle when the sun member and the ring member relatively move toward each other in response to rearward movement of the spindle and the planetary roller gets into frictional contact with the sun member and the ring member. The restricting member is configured to restrict the planetary roller from moving in the front-rear direction relative to the housing.

Abstract: A quick clamping device for arranging at least one application tool on a power tool, in particular on an angle grinder, includes at least one output unit for moving the application tool about an output axis of the output unit, and at least one fixing unit having at least one movably mounted fixing element that is mounted, in particular in a non-removable manner, on the output unit, at least for axially fixing the application tool to the output unit. The quick clamping device has at least one securing unit, which has at least one, in particular movably mounted, securing element that is intended to secure the fixing element, which is mounted so as to be movable relative to the output unit at least about the output axis, so as to prevent the fixing element from moving about the output axis.

Abstract: A gardening machine is provided, including a rod portion, a controlling portion, a switch assembly and a locking member. The rod portion has a machine tool head. The switch assembly includes a controlling member, and the controlling member is disposed on the controlling portion and movable to be in a first position or a second position. The locking member is disposed on the controlling portion and movable to be in a locked position or a released position, when the locking member is in the locked position, the controlling member is restricted and positioned in the second position.

Abstract: A machine tool device for a portable machine tool in one embodiments includes at least one coupling unit which couples a machining tool and at least one drive unit configured to drive the coupling unit. The machine tool device includes a recuperation unit which provides, in at least one deactivated state of the drive unit, electrical energy which supplies at least one functional unit from a kinetic energy of at least the coupling unit.

Abstract: An electric working machine in one aspect of the present disclosure includes an output shaft, a motor, a housing, an acceleration detector, a twisted motion detector, a reference level changer, and a motor controller. The acceleration detector detects an acceleration of the housing in a circumferential direction of the output shaft. The twisted motion detector detects a twisted motion of the housing based on a reference level and the acceleration detected. The reference level determines that the housing is twisted. The reference level changer changes the reference level based on a rotating motion of the output shaft.

Abstract: A suction device for a handheld power tool that is adapted to be driven in oscillation and that is equipped with a gearbox extension housing for mounting of the suction device. The suction device having a body mounted on the gearbox extension housing of the handheld power tool via a mounting section and an air duct formed in the body, the air duct being delimited at one end by an air inlet and at an other end by an air outlet on which a suction apparatus or a dust exhauster is adapted to be detachably mounted. The mounting section of the body is formed essentially as a hollow cylinder and extends between a first plane and a second plane, which are substantially parallel.