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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176995 | Reduced-impact sliding pressure control valve for pneumatic hammer drill A method and means of minimizing the effect of elastic valve recoil in impact applications, such as percussive drilling, where sliding spool valves used inside the percussive device are subject to poor positioning control due to elastic recoil effects experienced wh... | 05/15/2012 |
| 7735575 | Hammer drill with hard hammer support structure A drill housing supports an output spindle comprising a material that is relatively soft. The non-rotating hammer member can be mounted around the output spindle, adjacent its forward end, and adjacent the relatively soft material of the drill housing. The non-rotat... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7398835 | Rotary hammer having both a reciprocating hammer mechanism and a ratcheting hammer mechanism A rotary hammer incorporating both a reciprocating drive for generating a first hammering action transmittable to a tool bit and ratcheting mechanism for generating a second hammering action transmittable to the tool bit. The first hammering action and the second ha... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7328753 | Hydraulic breaking hammer with lubricated implement guide sleeve A hydraulic breaker hammer includes a housing with a longitudinal bore, a cylinder sleeve, and a rear end cover engaging the cylinder sleeve. A hammer piston is reciprocally powered in the cylinder sleeve for delivering blows to a working implement inserted in a gui... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7258349 | Hand power tool A hand power tool selected from the group consisting of a drill hammer and an impact hammer has an exchangeable tool holder, a guide pipe which receives the tool holder at its free end, a locking device arranged on the guide pipe and operative manually for fixing th... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7228935 | Attachment pin for an exhaust-gas muffler The invention relates to an attachment pin (1) for fixing an exhaust-gas muffler (2) in an apparatus part (4) of a portable handheld work apparatus (5) driven by an internal combustion engine. The exhaust-gas muffler (2) includes e... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7207633 | Scaling assembly A scaling apparatus comprises a hammer component and a pick component which includes a tooth. The apparatus also includes a mechanism for moving the pick component with respect to the hammer component to thereby impart a scaling force to and through the tooth. In a ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7204322 | Power tool having pneumatic vibration dampening It is an object of the present invention to provide a vibration reducing technique caused by air pressure fluctuations within a power tool. According to the present invention, a representative power tool may comprise a driving motor, a driver and a tool bit. The dri... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7191848 | Rolling hammer drill A hammer drill with rolling contact at the contact surfaces for transmission of axial force between a drive shaft and wave race. By using roller bearings, line contact is obtained. The area of contact is thus close to zero as opposed to a relatively large area in en... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191847 | Drive for a motor-driven hand-held tool A drive for a motor-driven hand-held tool includes a motor (17) and a gear mechanism (20) for converting a rotational movement of the motor (17) into a reciprocating movement of the reciprocating drive element (30) for a working tool, wit... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7168169 | Anti-rotation drive mechanism for a reciprocating saw An anti-rotation reciprocating drive apparatus for a reciprocating saw utilizes a wobble plate assembly that includes a drive shaft and an elongated arm with an interface structure for engaging a spindle. The interface structure has two ball-type interfaces that are... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7156190 | Impact tool An impact tool has a slidable hammer that is driven by hydraulic oil under pressure inside a chamber. The hydraulic oil is pressurized by a piston driven by compressed gas on the opposite side of the piston from the hydraulic oil. The gas in the gas chamber is compr... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7152692 | Hydraulic hammer having a sealing bushing A hydraulic hammer having a sealing bushing includes a percussion piston that delivers strokes to a tool. A lower part of the percussion piston is sealed with respect to a frame by the sealing bushing, which includes one or more lower seals. The sealing bushing does... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7143840 | Impact tool An impact tool enables a front cover part to be easily attached to and detached from a housing body, with a device having a simplified structure. The front cover part has an annular fastening portion clamped to the outer peripheral surface of a front edge portion of... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7121360 | Hand-held power tool A hand-held power tool includes a percussion mechanism (3) arranged in the tool housing (2), and a motor (4) for driving the percussion mechanism and connected therewith by a gear unit (5), with the percussion mechanism including an eccen... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7114895 | Machine tool provided with cooling mechanism A spindle motor as a heating element and a spindle head having a spindle that is driven by the spindle motor are coupled to each other by a cooling flange. The cooling flange is provided with a cooling passage, the cross-sectional area of which gradually increases w... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7096972 | Hammer drill attachment Power tools of the type under consideration include hammer drills, for example, which are electric or battery powered and includes two modes of operation: a rotation mode and a rotation-hammer mode. A manually operable selector lever enables the hammer drill to be s... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7097399 | Cutting machine for gear shaping or the like A cutting machine includes linear electrical actuation for controlling linear reciprocating movement of a spindle and cutting tool. The cutting machine is suited for gear shaping cutting operations and the like. Linear electrical actuation may be used to control pos... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7093669 | Impact tool An impact tool, comprising: a shaft; a stop on the shaft; a slider movable on the shaft for striking the stop to create an impact force; and a handle on the slider to allow a user to move the slider. The handle isolates the impact force from the user by being movabl... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7073608 | Power tool A portable tool comprising a spindle defining a longitudinal axis, a spring extending around the spindle in the axial direction for biasing a component of the tool, a stop ring extending around the spindle and against which the spring bears. The spindle includes a p... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075258 | Power control device of an electric tool, a method of power control of an electric tool and an electric tool provided with a power control device A power control device of an electric tool has a control or regulating device for adjusting a power output to an electric motor of the electric tool by means of a pulse width modulation, and a frequency transmitter that varies a frequency of the pulse width modulati... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7059423 | Jackhammer system A jackhammer system for reducing the vibration and noise experienced by an operator of the jackhammer. The jackhammer system includes a housing, a chisel movably positioned within a lower neck of the housing, a pair of flywheels rotatably attached to a pair of suppo... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7025183 | Pneumatic spring percussion mechanism with an electro-dynamically actuated driving piston The invention relates to a pneumatic spring percussion mechanism comprising a driving piston moving back and forth in a housing of the percussion mechanism and a percussion piston, wherein a pneumatic spring is configured between the driving piston and the percussio... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7013986 | Impact tool An impact tool enables a front cover part to be easily attached to and detached from a housing body, with a device having a simplified structure. The front cover part has an annular fastening portion clamped to the outer peripheral surface of a front edge portion of... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6955230 | Hammer drill and/or chipping hammer The invention is based on a hand power tool, in particular a drill- and/or chipping hammer, comprising a striking mechanism (10) that has a drivable pot-type piston (12) with at least one idle opening (14). It is proposed that the idle op... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6932166 | Pneumatic tool A pneumatic tool (20) for impacting a workpiece (22) is provided. The tool (20) comprises a casing (42) defining a chamber (48). A piston (54) is slidable within the chamber (48) along an operational axis (A). An exha... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6926095 | Power tool transmission device A power tool transmission device includes a base, a switch portion, a vibration member, a press portion, a transmission shaft and a casing. When the projections press the position plates, bosses on the position plates engage ribs formed outside the outer ring so as ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6918449 | Magnetic impact tool There is provided a magnetic impact tool comprising a magnetic hammer driven by a motor, a magnetic anvil disposed so as to face the magnetic hammer, an output shaft that rotates together with the magnetic anvil, a magnetic bypass device for distributing magnetic fl... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6907942 | Percussion tool In a percussion tool such as an electric hammer or a hammer drill in which the axial direction of a motor 8 is substantially perpendicular to that of a tool bit 1 attached to a tool holder 2, a motor housing 3 is made of a hard material s... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6868918 | Power tool driven by linear motor A power tool includes a linear motor and a maximum reciprocal movement amount setting unit. The linear motor has a movable member driven to move reciprocally and a tool connector for connecting work bits to the movable member. The maximum reciprocal movement amount ... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6863134 | Rotary tool A rotary tool, such as an impact wrench, includes a housing having a forward end and supporting a motor. The motor has a motor shaft extending axially through the housing and defining an axis. The rotary tool further includes a frame coupled to the motor shaft and r... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6789630 | Electric hand tool The present invention relates to an electric hand tool, in particular a drill or a screwdriver, comprising a housing, an electric motor accommodated therein and having a motor shaft, a tool shaft which is mounted in the housing and which is driven by the motor shaft... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6742266 | Miniature reciprocating saw device A small reciprocating saw device is provided which is adapted for one hand operation and which enables delicate sawing or filing work to be carried out. An eccentric drive arrangement includes a motor mounted in a housing at one end of the device and a slender drive... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6729412 | Power tool driven by linear motor A power tool includes a linear motor and a maximum reciprocal movement amount setting unit. The linear motor has a movable member driven to move reciprocally and a tool connector for connecting work bits to the movable member. The maximum reciprocal movement amount ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6712156 | Switch assembly for a combined hand tool device A switch assembly (1) for centrally arranged operating mode selection for an at least partially rotary and percussion combination hand tool device (2) is comprised of a first switch sleeve (11) for the switchable percussion drive (6) and ... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6705408 | Power tool with a linear motor A power tool has a linear motor which includes a movable element having a tool mounted on its one end and having magnotic poles installed at a fixed pitch along the direction of movement, magnetic pole teeth installed in opposition to each other and at a fixed pitch... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6695070 | Magnetic impact device and method for magnetically generating impact motion A magnetic impact device includes at least one hammer relatively movable with respect to at least one chuck. One of the at least one hammer and the at least one chuck has at least one magnet. Another of the at least one hammer and the at least one chuck h... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6648079 | Protective apparatus for preventing the infiltration of contaminants in a fluid-operated percussion device A protective apparatus for preventing the infiltration of contaminants in a fluid-operated percussion device, having a striking tool (3) that is guided to move in a housing (2) and is driven by a percussion piston in the striking direction (arrow 1), and ... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6626247 | Mechanism to fasten adaptors to a head portion of a post driver The present invention provides a post driver which includes various post adaptors having different cross-sections. The post adaptors can be attached to, and detached from, a head portion of the post driver. An adaptor is attached to the head portion by re... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6550546 | Spindle lock and chipping mechanism for hammer drill A hammer drill has a motor which drives an axially displaceable intermediate gear mounted in an intermediate gear arrangement. An impact mechanism is formed by including interacting impact cams between either the intermediate gear and the housing, or the ... | 04/22/2003 |