Electric Motor Patents (Class 173/217)
  • Patent number: 12150664
    Abstract: A medical device for debridement can include a handpiece, a shaft extending through the handpiece and distally therefrom, a drive to manipulate the cutter, a handle slidably coupled to the elongate housing and extending distally therefrom, and at least one locking mechanism configured to fix the handle to the handpiece. The handle can be configurable to multiple positions along the length of the handpiece, and can be removed therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Gyrus ACMI, Inc.
    Inventors: I. Miroslava Avila, Jeffrey Radziunas
  • Patent number: 12151350
    Abstract: An elastic member is disposed between an internal gear of a gear train and a gear housing. A force is applied to the gear train when a lift mechanism is activated. The force is received and absorbed by the elastic member, thereby reducing the amount of force received by the gear housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaya Nagao, Norikazu Baba, Shun Kuriki, Kazusa Fukuda
  • Patent number: 12107449
    Abstract: A detachable DC power source includes: a reference surface extending in front-rear and left-right directions; support walls protruding upward from opposite ends of the reference surface and extending in the front-rear direction; battery-side rails protruding outward in the left-right direction from the upper ends of the pair of support walls and extending in the front-rear direction; and a first battery-side distinguishing region disposed between the support walls in the left-right direction and at a connection location between the reference surface and one of the support walls. A first battery-side distinguishing member is provided in the first battery-side distinguishing region and is directly connected to the one the support walls and to the reference surface. The detachable DC power source may be used to power an electrical device having a first device distinguishing part capable of receiving the first battery distinguishing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsuya Nagahama
  • Patent number: 12097604
    Abstract: A power tool receives a reaction force with an auxiliary handle attached to the power tool. An auxiliary handle attachable to a power tool includes a first arm, a second arm that fastens, together with the first arm, at least a part of the power tool located between the first arm and the second arm, a handle, a grip sensor that detects the handle being gripped with the first arm and the second arm fastening at least the part of the power tool in between, and a signal output unit that outputs, to the power tool, a grip signal indicating that the handle is gripped based on a detection signal from the grip sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Kamiya, Koji Takahagi, Tomohiko Imae, Jun Ueda, Yuta Araki, Hidenori Nagasaka
  • Patent number: 12083612
    Abstract: Provided is an electric power work device, which is a chain saw, including: a body case; a cutting part protruding forward from the body case; a motor to drive the cutting part, and a battery. A top handle is provided at an upside with respect to the body case, and, a side handle is provided at a left side surface of the body case. The battery is detachably mounted in a battery part formed behind the top handle. Further, interference reduction part is formed behind the top handle to reduce interference with a palm holding the top handle or a wrist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: YAMABIKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisato Osawa, Kenji Nakano, Noriyuki Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 12080906
    Abstract: A battery pack receptacle includes a cavity that is defined by a first wall, a second wall, an intermediate wall coupled between the first wall and the second wall, an insertion end, and a closed end opposite the insertion end along an insertion axis of the battery pack. The receptacle includes a rail coupled to the first wall and extending between the insertion end and the closed end. The rail defines a guide surface. A groove is defined between the intermediate wall and the guide surface of the rail. The groove has a lateral wall coupled between the intermediate wall and the guide surface of the rail. A contact surface is defined adjacent the rail, along the lateral wall, or at the insertion end is configured to engage a mating contact surface of the battery pack to tighten the connection between the battery pack and the battery pack receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mackenzie J. Nick
  • Patent number: 12080905
    Abstract: A system including a power tool, a device, one or more battery packs, a battery pack bank, and an adaptor. The power tool has a power tool battery receptacle. The device is wearable by a user and has a first device battery receptacle and a second device battery receptacle. The one or more battery packs are received by at least one selected from a group of the power tool battery receptacle, the first device battery receptacle, and the second device battery receptacle. The battery pack bank is on the device. The adaptor includes a user interface and an adapter interface, the adapter interface is received by the power tool battery receptacle, the adapter configured to supply power, via the first device battery receptacle, when the user interface is in a first mode, and supply power, via the second device battery receptacle, when the user interface is in a second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Techtronic Cordless GP
    Inventors: Clint Cagle, Adam Faulkner, Raony Barrios
  • Patent number: 12076841
    Abstract: An impact tool includes a motor, an impact mechanism, an output shaft, a control unit, and an angular lead measurer. The impact mechanism includes a hammer and an anvil. The anvil rotates upon receiving impacting force from the hammer. The angular lead measurer measures an angular lead in rotation of the anvil over the hammer. The control unit changes, according to the angular lead measured by the angular lead measurer, a control mode for controlling the rotational velocity of the output shaft from one of a plurality of modes to another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Ueda, Takashi Kusagawa
  • Patent number: 12059794
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool includes a drive unit actuatable via at least one manual switch, a control unit at least for controlling the drive unit, the control unit having a control-unit housing. The power tool further includes at least one user interface having at least one operating element, and a housing that at least partially accommodates the control unit and the user interface. The hand-held power tool also includes a positioning device, the user interface being supported on the control-unit housing by use of the positioning device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Herr, Jens Blum, Simon Erbele
  • Patent number: 12053855
    Abstract: A power tool including a motor configured to rotatably drive an output shaft, a variable motor speed control input, a motor speed limit input, and a motor controller. The motor controller includes an electronic processor and a memory configured to store instructions. When executed by the motor controller, the instructions configure the motor controller to detect a motor speed limit from a setting of the motor speed limit input, and detect a variable speed control setting from the variable motor speed control input. The motor controller generates a motor speed control signal for driving the motor based on the detected motor speed limit and the detected variable motor speed control setting, and transmits the motor speed control signal to a motor driver circuit configured to drive the motor at a speed based on the motor speed control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Mark W. Kelly, Caleb M. Schober, Tyler L. Graham
  • Patent number: 12053871
    Abstract: An impact tool is less likely to have a shorter service life. An impact tool includes a motor, a spindle, a hammer, an anvil, and a lid. The spindle is rotatable by the motor. The spindle has an opening in a rear end face of the spindle, an internal space extending frontward from the opening and including a first space containing a lubricant oil and a second space connecting to a rear end of the first space, and a first feed port in an outer circumferential surface of the spindle. The hammer surrounds the spindle. The anvil is strikable by the hammer in a rotation direction. The lid is placeable through the opening into the second space. The first feed port allows supply of the lubricant oil from the first space to between the spindle and the hammer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Juan Chang, Haohao Wang, Wei Yang, Haruki Tejima
  • Patent number: 12042916
    Abstract: A tool for working a substrate, the tool having a stator and a working piston, which is intended to move relative to the stator along a working axis and toward the substrate or to hit a fastening element in order to drive the fastening element into the substrate, also having a drive, which is intended to drive the working piston along the working axis onto the substrate, the drive having a capacitor and a piston coil arranged on the working piston, the piston coil being electrically connectable to the capacitor in order during rapid discharge of the capacitor to have a current flowing through it and to generate a magnetic field which accelerates the working piston relative to the stator, the drive having a diode which is arranged on the working piston and is electrically connected to the piston coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Albert Binder, Chafic Abu Antoun, Florian Schmid
  • Patent number: 12036657
    Abstract: An electric tool includes a body portion, a grip portion, and a battery pack. The body portion includes: a tool attachment member to which a tool is attached; a driving unit to drive the tool; and a transmission unit to transmit driving force of the driving unit to the tool. The grip portion is provided for the body portion and includes a gripping part to be held by a user with his or her hand. The battery pack supplies power to the driving unit. The battery pack includes an all-solid-state battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD
    Inventor: Itaru Murui
  • Patent number: 12040687
    Abstract: A power tool includes a motor including a rotor and a stator disposed around the rotor; an output shaft to which a tip tool is attached and that is rotated by power generated by the motor; a torque sensor unit that is disposed between the stator and the output shaft in a front-rear direction parallel to a rotation axis of the motor and that is coupled to the output shaft; an amplifier circuit that amplifies a detection signal of the torque sensor unit; and a housing including a motor housing part for housing the motor and a grip part. The torque sensor unit is disposed forward of the stator. The grip part is disposed downward of the motor housing part. The amplifier circuit is disposed upward of the grip part. The amplifier circuit is disposed forward of a rear end part of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaharu Nakatsuka, Yuta Izutsu
  • Patent number: 12029464
    Abstract: A wire driver for inserting a wire into bone. The wire driver includes a housing having proximal and distal ends, with a handpiece extending to the proximal end. The handpiece is connected to a gripping portion, which extends to the distal end. A channel extends through the gripping portion and is connected to a gripping mechanism. A drive mechanism within the handpiece is connected to the channel. The drive mechanism is configured to rotate the channel when actuated by a first actuator positioned on the handpiece (which can be on the distal end of the handpiece). A second actuator is connected to the gripping portion and the gripping mechanism. The second actuator is movable between a relaxed position and a compressed position. The user can operate both first and second actuators with the same handpiece grip. The gripping portion and second actuator are rotatable relative to the housing and first actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Conmed Corporation
    Inventors: John K. Sieh, James McGarvey
  • Patent number: 12023794
    Abstract: Disclosed is a handheld tool using a battery pack (1). A positioning hole (118) is provided on the surface of the battery pack, a locking mechanism (31) matching the positioning hole is provided inside the handheld tool for locking or unlocking the battery pack, and an ejection mechanism (32) is further provided inside the handheld tool to work in conjunction with the locking mechanism to eject the battery pack when the battery pack is unlocked. The battery pack of the handheld tool can be completely inserted into a holding portion of the handheld tool, such that the tool can be made smaller. Moreover, the battery pack has a smooth surface and is convenient to carry, such that assembly/disassembly of the battery pack into/from the tool is more convenient. In addition, there is no detached gap between a tool housing and the battery pack on the surface of the tool, such that the appearance of the tool is more aesthetic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG LITHELI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Gang Chen, Ruilei Wu, Rentian Yu, Zhaozhi Wang, Ruozhou Long
  • Patent number: 12011820
    Abstract: A tool bit holding system for a power tool includes a snap-on bit holder including a curved plate contoured similar to a contour of a top surface of a power tool housing and configured to removably rest on the top of the power tool housing. A plurality of legs extend from lateral ends of the curved plate, each leg including a hook portion configured to be removably received in recesses in lateral sides of the power tool housing to removably retain the curved plate on the top surface of the power tool housing. A bit holding portion includes at least one of a magnetic plate, a box, and one or more bit receiving slots coupled to a top face of the curved plate. The at least one of the magnetic plate, the box, and the one or more bit receiving slots is configured to removably retain at least one of a tool bit, a fastener, and a supplemental tool bit holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: BLACK & DECKER INC.
    Inventors: Darren Moss, Aland Santamarina
  • Patent number: 12005560
    Abstract: An oscillating power tool including a housing, a motor including a drive shaft rotatable about a motor axis, an output spindle configured to be driven by the motor and journaled for oscillating rotation about an oscillation axis, and a drive mechanism. The drive mechanism is configured to convert rotation of the drive shaft into oscillating rotation of the output spindle about the oscillation axis and includes an eccentric member and a forked member. Oscillating rotation of the forked member has an angular amplitude about the oscillation axis. The eccentric member is movable with respect to the forked member to change the angular amplitude of oscillating rotation of the forked member. An amplitude adjustment actuator is configured to move the eccentric member to change the angular amplitude of oscillating rotation of the forked member. The amplitude adjustment actuator defines a receptacle. At least a portion of the forked member is disposed in the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: James C. Sitter, David A. Bierdeman
  • Patent number: 11986939
    Abstract: A setting tool for driving fastening elements into a substrate comprises a holder for holding a fastening element; a drive-in element for transferring a fastening element held in the holder into the substrate along a setting axis; and, a drive for driving the drive-in element toward the fastening element along the setting axis, wherein the drive comprises an electrical capacitor; a squirrel-cage rotor arranged on the drive-in element; and, an excitation coil, which during rapid discharge of the capacitor is flowed through by current and generates a magnetic field that accelerates the drive-in element toward the fastening element, and wherein the setting tool has a control unit, which is suitable for carrying out a fuse discharge of the capacitor during which current does not flow through the excitation coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: HILTI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Tilo Dittrich, Norbert Heeb, Kai Friewald
  • Patent number: 11990633
    Abstract: A system including a power tool, a device, one or more battery packs, a battery pack bank, and an adaptor. The power tool has a power tool battery receptacle. The device is wearable by a user and has a first device battery receptacle and a second device battery receptacle. The one or more battery packs are received by at least one selected from a group of the power tool battery receptacle, the first device battery receptacle, and the second device battery receptacle. The battery pack bank is on the device. The adaptor includes a user interface and an adapter interface, the adapter interface is received by the power tool battery receptacle, the adapter configured to supply power, via the first device battery receptacle, when the user interface is in a first mode, and supply power, via the second device battery receptacle, when the user interface is in a second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Techtronic Cordless GP
    Inventors: Clint Cagle, Adam Faulkner, Raony Barrios
  • Patent number: 11986941
    Abstract: A power tool is provided comprising: a power source; a power tool housing comprising a first mechanical coupling connectable with a second reciprocal mechanical coupling on a power tool accessory; and a first electrical coupling in electrical connection with the power source and mounted on the first mechanical coupling. The first electrical coupling is electrically connectable with a second reciprocal electrical coupling on the power tool accessory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Black & Decker, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Kadlecek, Petr Dusik, Isabell Oeffner, Benjamin Schmidt, Stefan Sell, Rene Thieme
  • Patent number: 11981016
    Abstract: In an electric tool, a motor has a permanent magnet and a coil. An operating member receives an operating command. A control unit performs driving control on the motor in accordance with the operating command. A transmission mechanism transmits motive power of the motor to an output shaft. A switching mechanism switches an operation mode of the electric tool from a first mode to a second mode, or vice versa. Magnitude of variation in a rotational speed of the output shaft in response to a change by a unit quantity in an output torque of the output shaft is smaller in the first mode than in the second mode. The control unit can perform, in the first mode, flux weakening control that causes a flux weakening current to flow through the coil to make the coil generate a magnetic flux that weakens a magnetic flux of the permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kotaro Momoeda
  • Patent number: 11969850
    Abstract: A hand-held/hand-guided random orbital polishing/sanding power tool has a static body and a motor for driving an eccentric element with a rotational movement about a first rotational axis, and a plate-like backing pad rotatably connected to the eccentric element about a second rotational axis. The first/second axes extend parallel to and spaced apart from one another. Part of an external circumferential surface of the eccentric element has a rotational symmetry re the first axis to form a rotationally symmetric part. The tool has a first bearing between the rotationally symmetric part and the static body so the eccentric element is rotatably guided re the static body about the first axis, and also having a mechanical gear arrangement with two meshing gear wheels arranged between the motor's drive shaft and the eccentric element, and one meshing gear wheel attached to the eccentric element for transmitting torque thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventor: Guido Valentini
  • Patent number: 11958170
    Abstract: An impact tool includes: a brushless motor; a spindle, which is rotated by the brushless motor; a hammer, which is held on the spindle; an anvil, which is impacted in a rotational direction by the hammer; a polymer housing, which houses the brushless motor; a hammer case, which is connected to the polymer housing and houses the hammer and the spindle; and a light unit, which is held on the hammer case and comprises a plurality of light-emitting devices. The maximum tightening torque of the anvil is 1,000 N·m or more and 2,500 N·m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tokuo Hirabayashi, Haruki Tejima, Kazuma Aoki, Kazunori Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 11955830
    Abstract: A power tool system including a battery pack and a power tool. The power tool includes a power tool housing, a drive unit located within the housing, and a power tool controller located within the housing. The power tool controller is configured to receive a signal from the battery pack (for example, a battery pack controller), the signal indicative of a temperature (for example, a temperature of the battery pack); determine whether the temperature is between a lower temperature threshold and an upper temperature threshold; and limit a power to a drive unit if the temperature is between the lower temperature threshold and the upper temperature threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Techtronic Cordless GP
    Inventors: Jonathan R. Feldkamp, Grzegorz Kondro, Colin W. Hines, Mathew Tang, Nikolas F. Mika
  • Patent number: 11951604
    Abstract: A power tool system includes a removable battery pack a first tool and a second tool. The first tool includes a first base housing that is selectively engageable with the removable battery pack and a first tool portion connected to the first base housing by a first connecting section. The second tool includes a second base housing that is selectively engageable with the removable battery pack and a second tool portion connected to the second base housing by a second connecting section. The second tool base housing houses a second controller that provides a proportional power delivery system for the second tool and second tool base housing also includes a second actuator for providing user control of the second tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel L. Schwarz, Patrick J. Tilson, Ethan L. Helmer
  • Patent number: 11942849
    Abstract: This embodiment relates to a motor comprising: a housing; a stator disposed within the housing; a rotor disposed inside the stator; and a shaft coupled to the rotor. The housing includes a body and a plurality of protrusions that protrude inward from the inner circumferential surface of the body, and the stator includes a stator core and a coil wound on the stator core. The inner surfaces, which are the inside surfaces of the protrusions, are in contact with the outer circumferential surface of the stator core, and the protrusions are disposed spaced apart at predetermined intervals along the circumferential direction such that gaps (G) are formed in the radial direction between the outer circumferential surface of the stator core and the inner circumferential surface of the body. Accordingly, the protrusions formed on the housing of the motor reduce the amount of contact between the housing and the stator core, and can thus improve friction torque performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hee Soo Lim
  • Patent number: 11926031
    Abstract: An electric work machine includes a motor, a manipulator, a first switch, a second switch, and a control circuit. The manipulator is on-operated or off-operated by a user of the electric work machine. Each of the first switch and the second switch is turned on or off in response to the manipulator being on-operated or off-operated. The control circuit executes a motor control process in accordance with a computer program. The control circuit receives first switch information from the first switch, and receives second switch information from the second switch. The motor control process outputs a drive command for driving the motor in response to the first switch information and the second switch information indicating that the manipulator is on-operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Nakamoto, Hitoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11904448
    Abstract: In a control method for a hand-held power tool, a striking mechanism is driven with an electric motor, wherein an exciter piston of the pneumatic striking mechanism is driven periodically by the electric motor and a striking piston of the striking mechanism is coupled to the exciter piston via a pneumatic chamber. The method includes detecting the acceleration of a machine housing along a striking direction of the striking piston in different phases of the movement of the exciter piston; and controlling a rotational speed of an electric motor according to the detected acceleration in the different phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dario Bralla, Albert Binder, Donato Clausi, Michael Wierer, Serhey Khandozhko, Nikolaus Hannoschoeck
  • Patent number: 11865668
    Abstract: A grinder including a motor, a switch operated ON and OFF in accordance with an operation of a switch lever to control a rotation of an output shaft of the motor, a spindle that rotates in accordance with the rotation of the output shaft to rotate a disk-shaped grinding wheel and a brake mechanism controllable with respect to a brake plate that integrally rotates with the output shaft, in a housing, the brake plate includes fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Shibata, Masanori Furusawa
  • Patent number: 11871167
    Abstract: A power tool having multiple wireless communication states and a method of wirelessly communicating by a power tool. The power tool includes a motor, a battery pack interface that selectively receives a battery pack, a backup power source, and a wireless communication controller coupled to the backup power source and the battery pack interface. The wireless communication controller operates in a connectable state when coupled to a battery pack and transmits tool operational data to the external device and receives tool configuration data from the external device. The wireless communication controller operates in an advertisement state when the wireless communication controller is coupled to and powered by the backup power source. In the advertisement state, the wireless communication controller is configured to transmit the unique tool identifier. The external device may also display an indication of the communication state of the power tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Burtrom Lee Stampfl, Matthew J. Mergener, Alex Huber, Paul Rossetto, Cole A. Conrad, Stephen Matson, Scott R. Fischer, Mark A. Kubale, Christian Coulis
  • Patent number: 11858085
    Abstract: A power tool includes a housing. A motor is housed in the housing. A platen is driven by the motor. The housing includes a first housing part, a second housing part and a third housing part. The housing defines a battery receptacle portion configured to receive a removable battery pack which powers the motor. Each of the first housing part, the second housing part and the third housing part form part of the battery receptacle portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Drake L. Fisher, Brent A. Kuehne, Christian V. Elder
  • Patent number: 11855521
    Abstract: A power tool is provided including a housing including a grip portion; and a brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor at least partially disposed within the grip portion of the housing. The motor includes a stator having a rotor core, a rotor, and front and rear bearing support structures. The stator core includes a non-segmented construction with a maximum diameter of approximately smaller than or equal to 34 mm, and a ratio of a motor size (Km) constant of the motor to a length of the motor is in the range of approximately 0.39 to 0.59 (Nmm/?W)/mm. When powered by a 20 V battery pack, a ratio of a maximum power output of the motor to a volume of the motor is at least approximately 0.0106 W/mm{circumflex over (?)}3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: BLACK & DECKER, INC.
    Inventors: Dustin Jefferies, David J. Smith, Marcus E. E. Rydin, Justin H. Ayers, Sumiteru Mori, John B. Fogle, John D. Cox, Kristopher Cochran, Barak N. Gohn
  • Patent number: 11840838
    Abstract: A gutter cleaner comprising: a fan assembly configured to generate airflow to blow debris from a gutter; a cage at least partially disposed around the fan assembly and configured to prevent ingress of clogging debris into the fan assembly; and at least one wheel configured to roll along the gutter and at least partially support the gutter cleaner, wherein the at least one wheel is non-powered, and wherein the gutter cleaner is self-aligning on the gutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Techtronic Cordless GP
    Inventors: Christopher A. Holman, Ronald J. Hoffman
  • Patent number: 11833640
    Abstract: A grinder includes a brake mechanism, a switch lever, and a slide bar. In the grinder, an interlocking mechanism configured to interlock the brake mechanism with the switch lever includes a link member that is interposed between the switch lever and the slide bar, that moves the slide bar to the forward position at the push-in position of the switch lever, and that moves the slide bar to the retraction position at the initial position of the switch lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Iwakami, Hideharu Muto, Ryosuke Otani
  • Patent number: 11811037
    Abstract: A hand-guided, battery-operated working apparatus has an apparatus housing in which is arranged an electric drive motor, a battery tray to accommodate a removable battery pack, and a cooling air guide. The cooling air guide includes an inlet-side air guide portion, which extends from a housing inlet into the battery tray as far as an air outlet from the battery tray, and an outlet-side air guide portion, which leads from the air outlet of the battery tray to the drive motor and, from there, onwards to a housing outlet. The working apparatus has a filter element, which is arranged in the cooling air guide so as to be accessible via the battery tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Georg Heinzelmann, Martin Failenschmid, Frederik Herrmann
  • Patent number: 11766768
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle's spare tire tool used for lowering down a spare tire stowed underneath of a vehicle, such as pick-up truck, SUV or any other off-road vehicle. The tool can also be used for stowing the tire back to the bottom of the vehicle. The tool kit features a 13? tubular rod, that is designed to fit into a cordless drill, using an integrated male connector for rotating the rod. The rod also accommodates a connecting tip for hooking into a winch system of the vehicle. The rod with the attached connecting tip is inserted into an access hole at the rear of the vehicle and is rotated by the cordless drill. The tool kit enables users of all ages to easily dismount spares without overexertion or strain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventor: Anthony Souza
  • Patent number: 11759940
    Abstract: A housing for power tools such as chainsaws, blowers, trimmers or hedge trimmers. The housing has a front end at which a tool of the power tool is attached. The housing includes a rear end and a top side. A battery compartment is provided at the top side of the housing and extends inside the housing and has a shape adapted to receive a battery. The shape is essentially cuboidal and has a rectangular cross section looking at the top side of the housing. The short sides of the rectangular cross section are substantially parallel with the rear end and the front end of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Globe (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Thomas Arnell
  • Patent number: 11757330
    Abstract: An outer-rotor brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor is provided including a rotor shaft, a motor housing having an open end and a closed end that supports a first motor bearing, a stator core having an aperture extending therethrough, a stator mount coupled to the open end and including an elongated cylindrical member projecting into the aperture of the stator core and a radial wall that supports a second motor bearing, an outer rotor, and a rotor mount including an outer rim arranged to couple to the outer rotor and an inner body mounted on the rotor shaft. An intermediate bearing is received at least partially within the aperture of the stator core to radially support the stator core relative to the rotor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: BLACK & DECKER, INC.
    Inventors: Dustin Jefferies, Marcus E. E. Rydin, Jarrett A. Dunston, Timothy W. French, Gale A. Heslop, Ross A. Billings
  • Patent number: 11738441
    Abstract: A power tool includes a motor including a stator and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator about a rotation axis, a gear drivable in response to rotation of the rotor, a motor compartment accommodating the motor, a rear cover covering a rear opening in the motor compartment, a gear case accommodating the gear and covering a front opening in the motor compartment, a first screw fastening the rear cover and the motor compartment together, and a second screw fastening the motor compartment and the gear case together, and at a different position from the first screw in a plane orthogonal to the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kihiro Kusumoto, Kenji Abe
  • Patent number: 11678893
    Abstract: An engagement mechanism for a driver instrument (24) can comprise a mobile shaft (121, 221), a collet (122, 222) and an angled engagement interface (124; 136A-D). The mobile shaft comprises a first shaft portion (128, 228) located at a proximal end of ON the mobile shaft, a driver portion (126, 226) located at a distal end of the mobile shaft, and an internal passageway (180, 280) extending from the proximal end to the distal end. The collet comprises a second shaft portion (134, 234) disposed within the passageway at co the first shaft portion, and flexible arms (132A-D, 232A-D) extending from the second shaft portion within the driver portion. The angled engagement interface is positioned between the driver portion and the flexible arms, and is configured to permit the driver portion to push or deflect the flexible arms radially inward when the first shaft portion is slid along the second shaft portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Zimmer, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Mahaffey
  • Patent number: 11675014
    Abstract: A power tool includes: a rechargeable battery; a motor; a drive circuit; an operation unit; a battery state detection circuit; a control circuit; and an interruption circuit. The battery state detection circuit detects a battery voltage, and when the detected battery voltage is lower than or equal to a prescribed voltage, the battery state detection circuit outputs a low-voltage signal. The control means outputs a control signal to the drive circuit instructing to drive the motor when the operation unit is operated and halts the output of the control signal to the drive circuit instructing to halt driving the motor in response to the low-voltage signal. The interruption circuit outputs an interruption signal to the drive circuit in response to the low-voltage signal to thereby interrupt the drive circuit and halt driving the motor irrespective of whether or not the control signal is outputted to the drive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Koki Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazutaka Iwata
  • Patent number: 11677074
    Abstract: The present application discloses a positive electrode plate, a method for preparation thereof, and related lithium-ion secondary battery, electric vehicle and electronic product. The positive electrode plate includes a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode film disposed on at least one surface of the positive electrode current collector, the positive electrode film includes a positive active material which is a lithium manganese-based positive active material; and wherein the volume resistivity ?sum of the positive electrode plate, the powder volume resistivity ? of the positive active material under a pressure of 20 MPa and the mass percentage a of the positive active material in the positive electrode film satisfy ?sum/?97.5-a?3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Li, Changlong Han, Qifeng Li
  • Patent number: 11661803
    Abstract: A system includes a crate and a deployer. The crate is configured to contain a plurality of elongated rods; the crate has a length, width and height. The deployer includes a bed frame upper surface, a crate support frame, a tilt mechanism and a scope mechanism. The crate support frame includes an attachment mechanism configured for removable attachment of the crate, wherein the crate support frame has a longitudinal extent aligned with the length of an attached crate. The tilt mechanism is configured to move the crate support frame between a horizontal position parallel to the bed frame upper surface and a vertical position normal to the bed frame upper surface. The scope mechanism is configured to move the crate support frame linearly along its longitudinal extent. A method of deploying a plurality of rods to a selected location is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Rod Deployment Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Tobias Hauck
  • Patent number: 11646527
    Abstract: An electric tool includes a body, a battery pack, and a guide portion including a primary guide unit and a secondary guide unit. The primary guide unit and the secondary guide unit each extend in a preset direction and the primary guide unit and the secondary guide unit each are arranged in the longitudinal direction between a connecting portion of the battery pack and a mounting portion of the body. The primary guide unit and the secondary guide unit implement rigid mating. The primary guide unit includes primary mating surfaces mating with each other in the transverse direction, the secondary guide unit includes secondary mating surfaces mating with each other in the transverse direction, and a ratio of a width of a transverse gap between the primary mating surfaces to a width of a transverse gap between the secondary mating surfaces is greater than or equal to 0.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Nanjing Chervon Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fukinuki Masatoshi, Xiang Zhao, Muyang Ni
  • Patent number: 11646638
    Abstract: An electric work machine includes a display that properly displays display-data. The electric work machine includes a motor including a stator and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, an output unit driven by the rotor, a display panel that displays a setting state of the output unit, and a holder holding the display panel. The holder includes metal or synthetic resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshimasa Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 11607794
    Abstract: A power wrench includes a cylindrical housing, an electric motor, an output shaft connected to the motor and a power switching device activated by a trigger located on the housing. The trigger is supported on an annular sleeve element coaxially disposed and rotatable relative to the housing for enabling adjustment of the angular position of the trigger relative to the housing. Irrespective of its angular position the trigger is arranged to axially displace a non-rotatable activation ring to activate the power switching device. The housing includes an adjustable angle head supporting the output shaft and arranged to be set in alternative angular positions relative to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO INDUSTRIAL TECHNIQUE AB
    Inventor: Patrik Leander Andersson
  • Patent number: 11597068
    Abstract: A power tool (100) comprises a motor (110) operably driving a tool bit (119), a tool body (101) housing the motor (110), a handle (109) coupled to the tool body (101), and at least two battery mount parts (160 A, 160B) defined on the handle (109) and/or the tool body (101). Each of the battery mount parts (160 A, 160B) comprises a battery engaging part (161) configured to detachably engage with battery packs (170 A, 170B) by sliding the battery packs (170 A, 170B) relative to the battery engaging part (161) in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the tool bit (119). In a state in which at least one of the battery packs (170 A, 170B) is mounted on at least one of the battery mount parts (160 A, 160B), a length of the mounted battery in a driving axis extending direction is shorter than a length of the mounted battery in a cross direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyonobu Yoshikane, Hajime Takeuchi, Yoshiro Tada, Masanori Furusawa, Masao Miwa, Shinji Onoda, Yoshitaka Machida
  • Patent number: 11571800
    Abstract: The application concerns a cooling arrangement for a power tool and a power tool comprising the cooling arrangement. According to an aspect of the invention a cooling arrangement for a power tool comprises a housing of the power tool and electronics. The electronics include at least one circuit board and at least one electronic component. The electronics comprise at least one heat conductive area. The at least one heat conductive area is arranged to be heat conductively connected to the housing of the power tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: MIRKA LTD
    Inventors: Stig Finnäs, Caj Nordström, Tomas Södergård
  • Patent number: 11559916
    Abstract: An electric working machine may include: a support rod constituted of metal; a tool disposed at a front end of the support rod; a motor configured to drive the tool; a control unit disposed at a rear end of the support rod and configured to control the motor; and a heat transfer structure configured to transfer heat from the control unit to the support rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuma Niiyama