TALKING SCREWDRIVER

• US 20050204877A1
• Filed: 03/15/2005
• Published: 09/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: James A. Royko
• Original Assignee: James A. Royko
• Inventors: Royko, James A.
• Application Number:
  US10/906,990
• Publication Number:
  US 20050204877A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 81/479
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 15/02 operated by rotating the handle
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 23/1425 by electrical means

Abstract

A screwdriver that produces an audible sound, such as a verbal message, when used, and to a method of using a screwdriver. The screwdriver comprises a handle, a shaft extending from the handle, a memory storage device within the handle and storing a message, and components for delivering and broadcasting the message from the memory storage device when the shaft is subjected to a torsional force during use of the screwdriver that exceeds a predetermined torsional. The method entails using a screwdriver so as to subject the shaft thereof to a torsional force and, in response to the torsional force exceeding a predetermined torsional force, delivering and broadcasting a message stored on a memory storage device within the handle of the screwdriver.

Claims

1. A screwdriver comprising:

a handle;

a shaft extending from the handle and terminating in means for engaging a screw head;

a memory storage device within the handle and storing a message; and

means for delivering and broadcasting the message from the memory storage device when the shaft is subjected to a torsional force during use of the screwdriver that exceeds a predetermined torsional force.

2. The screwdriver according to claim 1, wherein the memory storage device is configured as read only memory and the message is one of a plurality of stored permanent messages in the memory storage device.

3. The screwdriver according to claim 1, wherein the memory storage device is configured as read and write memory, the message is recorded by a user of the screwdriver, and the screwdriver further comprises means for recording the message.

4. The screwdriver according to claim 1, wherein the delivering and broadcasting means comprises a switch physically interconnected with the shaft to cause the message to be delivered and broadcast when the shaft is subject to the predetermined torsional load.

5. The screwdriver according to claim 1, wherein the delivering and broadcasting means comprises a strain gauge physically interconnected with the shaft to cause the message to be delivered and broadcast when the shaft is subject to the predetermined torsional load.

6. The screwdriver according to claim 1, further comprising means for selecting the message from a plurality of messages stored on the memory storage device based on the extent to which the torsional force exceeds the predetermined torsional force.

7. A method of using a screwdriver having a handle and a shaft extending from the handle and terminating in means for engaging a screw head, the method comprising the steps of:

using the screwdriver so as to subject the shaft to a torsional force; and

in response to the torsional force exceeding a predetermined torsional force, delivering and broadcasting a message stored on a memory storage device within the handle.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the memory storage device is configured as read only memory and the message is one of a plurality of stored permanent messages that were permanently stored in the memory storage device.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the memory storage device is configured as read and write memory, the method further comprising the step of a user of the screwdriver recording the message using means within the handle for recording the message.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein the message is delivered and broadcast as a result of a switch being operated when the shaft is subjected to the predetermined torsional load.

11. The method according to claim 7, wherein the message is delivered and broadcast as a result of a strain gauge being operated when the shaft is subjected to the predetermined torsional load.

12. The method according to claim 7, further comprising selecting the message from a plurality of messages stored on the memory storage device based on the extent to which the torsional force exceeds the predetermined torsional force.