Patents by Inventor Marc RUSCH

Marc RUSCH has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12290957
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Festool GmbH
    Inventors: Marc Rusch, Markus Schmid
  • Patent number: 12090562
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: FESTOOL GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Schmid, Marc Rusch
  • Patent number: 12070871
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool for machining a workpiece, comprising a drive motor, a tool holder, which can be driven by the drive motor, and which is for a working tool for machining the workpiece, and a guide element having a guide surface for guiding the hand-held power tool on the workpiece in a working direction, wherein the tool holder is mounted via a bearing arrangement such that it moves relative to the guide element and the tool holder can be driven by a servo motor arrangement, wherein the hand-held power tool can be swivelled via the bearing arrangement about at least one adjusting swivel axis passing through the guide surface at an angle, in particular at a right angle, for the relative adjustment of the tool holder relative to the guide element, wherein the hand-held power tool has a control device for controlling the servo motor arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: FESTOOL GMBH
    Inventor: Marc Rusch
  • Patent number: 11745381
    Abstract: A mobile machine tool including a guide element, having a guide surface, for guiding the machine tool and a workpiece surface of the workpiece to one another along a machining path. The machine tool includes a drive unit having a drive motor for driving a tool receptacle arranged on the drive unit for receiving a work tool and a detection device for detecting at least one workpiece reference which is associated, with respect to a machining path, with a machining start point where the work tool starts the machining of the workpiece or with a machining end point where the work tool ends the machining of the workpiece. The tool receptacle is designed for rotationally driving the work tool about an axis of rotation and for adjusting a penetration depth of the work tool into the workpiece by means of a depth adjustment device between depth adjustment positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Festool GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Kübeler, Marc Rusch, Daniel Schäuble
  • Patent number: 11701723
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: FESTOOL GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Schmid, Marc Rusch
  • Patent number: 11697200
    Abstract: A power tool, including a support structure, a pivot bearing arranged on the support structure, a shaft mounted on the support structure via the pivot bearing, a rotatable tool coupled to the shaft, in particular a saw blade, milling cutter or grinding wheel, a strain gauge arrangement for detecting a mechanical quantity which depends on a force emanating from the tool, and a control device which is adapted to recognize an event and/or a state of the power tool according to the detected mechanical quantity. The strain gauge arrangement is arranged on a stationary structure section coupled in a force-transmitting manner to the pivot bearing and is not arranged on the pivot bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: FESTOOL GMBH
    Inventors: Marc Rusch, Markus Schmid
  • Patent number: 11534902
    Abstract: A handheld power tool with a rotatable tool, in which the handheld power tool is a saw blade or milling cutter. The handheld power tool includes a sensor device for detecting a mechanical vector quantity. The mechanical vector quantity includes a force, an acceleration, a velocity, a deflection, a deformation and/or a mechanical stress and the mechanical vector quantity depends on a force emanating from the handheld tool. The handheld power tool also includes a control device which is communicatively coupled to the sensor device and is adapted to recognize an event and/or a state of the power tool according to a direction and/or change of direction of the mechanical vector quantity detected by the sensor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: FESTOOL GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Schmid, Marc Rusch, Uwe Werner, Remo Sommer, Tom Staubli, Jorg Evertz, Luca Lortscher, Miriam Nietlispach
  • Patent number: 11491564
    Abstract: A power tool with a rotatable tool designed as a saw blade or a milling cutter. The power tool includes a sensor device for detecting a mechanical quantity, the mechanical quantity including a force, an acceleration, a velocity, a deflection, a deformation and/or a mechanical stress. The mechanical quantity is dependent on a force emanating from the tool, and a control device communicatively coupled to the sensor device. The control device is adapted to recognize a kickback event based on the detected mechanical quantity, in which 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: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: FESTOOL GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Schmid, Marc Rusch
  • Patent number: 11458548
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: FESTOOL GMBH
    Inventors: Marc Rusch, Peter Seiler
  • Patent number: 11426807
    Abstract: A mobile machine tool (10), namely a manually-operated machine tool or semi-stationary machine tool, for machining a workpiece (W), wherein the machine tool has a plate-like guide element (30) with a guide surface (32) for guiding the machine tool on the workpiece (W) or the workpiece (W) on the machine tool, wherein the machine tool has a drive unit (11) with a drive motor (13) for driving a tool holder (14) arranged on the drive unit (11), wherein the drive unit (11) is, by means of a bearing arrangement (35), mounted adjustably on the guide element (30) in order to adjust at least two adjustment positions (S0, S1, S2) of the tool holder (14) relative to the guide surface (32), wherein at least one adjustment position (S0, S1, S2) corresponds to a workpiece machining position in which the work tool (15) arranged on the tool holder (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Festool GmbH
    Inventors: Josua Frank, Marc Rusch, Matthias Kübeler, Philipp Sobl
  • Publication number: 20220048119
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: FESTOOL GMBH
    Inventors: Marc Rusch, Peter Seiler
  • Publication number: 20220016723
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: FESTOOL GMBH
    Inventors: Markus SCHMID, Marc RUSCH
  • Patent number: 11226608
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: FESTOOL GMBH
    Inventors: Marc Rusch, Matthias Kübeler
  • Publication number: 20220009012
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: FESTOOL GMBH
    Inventors: Markus SCHMID, Marc RUSCH
  • Publication number: 20220001570
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: FESTOOL GMBH
    Inventors: Marc RUSCH, Markus SCHMID
  • Publication number: 20210252733
    Abstract: A mobile machine tool including a guide element, having a guide surface, for guiding the machine tool and a workpiece surface of the workpiece to one another along a machining path. The machine tool includes a drive unit having a drive motor for driving a tool receptacle arranged on the drive unit for receiving a work tool and a detection device for detecting at least one workpiece reference which is associated, with respect to a machining path, with a machining start point where the work tool starts the machining of the workpiece or with a machining end point where the work tool ends the machining of the workpiece. The tool receptacle is designed for rotationally driving the work tool about an axis of rotation and for adjusting a penetration depth of the work tool into the workpiece by means of a depth adjustment device between depth adjustment positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Matthias Kübeler, Marc Rusch, Daniel Schäuble
  • Publication number: 20210154819
    Abstract: A power tool, including a support structure, a pivot bearing arranged on the support structure, a shaft mounted on the support structure via the pivot bearing, a rotatable tool coupled to the shaft, in particular a saw blade, milling cutter or grinding wheel, a strain gauge arrangement for detecting a mechanical quantity which depends on a force emanating from the tool, and a control device which is adapted to recognize an event and/or a state of the power tool according to the detected mechanical quantity. The strain gauge arrangement is arranged on a stationary structure section coupled in a force-transmitting manner to the pivot bearing and is not arranged on the pivot bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: FESTOOL GMBH
    Inventors: Marc RUSCH, Markus SCHMID
  • Publication number: 20210154758
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: FESTOOL GMBH
    Inventors: Markus SCHMID, Marc RUSCH
  • Publication number: 20200356075
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Marc Rusch, Matthias Kübeler
  • Publication number: 20200282588
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool for machining a workpiece, having a drive motor, a tool holder, which can be driven by the drive motor, and which is for a working tool for machining the workpiece, and a guide element having a guide surface for guiding the hand-held power tool on the workpiece in a working direction, wherein the tool holder is mounted via a bearing arrangement such that it moves relative to the guide element and said tool holder can be driven by a servo motor arrangement, wherein the hand-held power tool can be swivelled via the bearing arrangement about at least one adjusting swivel axis passing through the guide surface at an angle, for the relative adjustment of the tool holder relative to the guide element, wherein the hand-held power tool has a control device for controlling the servo motor arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventor: Marc Rusch