Cord sleeve, and device provided therewith

• US 20060065562A1
• Filed: 09/14/2005
• Published: 03/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Cramer, Christoph
• Granted Patent: US 7,261,586 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 206/349
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/02 Forms or constructions layered products B32B
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/10 by an adhesive layer
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 7/12 the elements being secured or adapted to be secured by self-adhesion, moisture, suction, slow-drying adhesive or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/465 Identification means, e.g. labels, tags, markings H01R9/2475, H01R9/2683 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/56 Means for preventing chafing or fracture of flexible leads at outlet from coupling part

Abstract

An electric hand power tool has a housing, a drive motor, a power cord extending to an outside from the housing and supplying energy to the drive motor, wherein the power cord has an exit region with a cord sleeve that tubularly clasps the power cord and is provided with a structure for receiving a data storage medium.

Claims

1. An electric hand power tool, comprising a housing;

a drive motor;

a power cord extending to an outside from said housing and supplying energy to said drive motor, said power cord having an exit region with a cord sleeve that tubularly clasps said power cord, said cord sleeve being provided with means for receiving a data storage medium.

2. An electric hand power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein said cord sleeve is locked in form-locking fasion in said housing.

3. An electric hand power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein said means for receiving the data storage medium is formed so that the data storage medium is seated in said cord sleeve in such a way that it is not visible.

4. An electric hand power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein said means for receiving the data storage medium is formed so that the data storage medium is seated in said cord sleeve in such a way that it is not visible from outside.

5. An electric hand power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein said means is formed so that the data storage medium, once said cord sleeve has been installed on said housing, can not be removed from said cord sleeve non destructively.

6. An electric hand power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein said means include a longitudinally extending double slot which is formed in said cord sleeve and passes through a front end of said cord sleeve so as to act as a pocket which extends parallel to said power cord and into which the data storage medium is placeable in a captive fashion before said cord sleeve is installed on the hand power tool.

7. An electric hand power tool as defined in claim 6, wherein said double slot is formed so that the data storage medium is holdable firmly in said double slot in a manner selected from the group consisting of a force-locking fashion, a form-locking fashion, and both.

8. An electric hand power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein said cord sleeve comprises a material in which, in a way not visible from an outside, data are storable in a manner selected from the group consisting of magnetically and termally.

9. An electric hand power tool as defined in claim 8, wherein said cord sleeve is composed of the material in which data are storable in a rewritable way.

10. An electric hand power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein said cord sleeve has a radial basket-shaped hollow bulge with an interior for stowing data of the storage medium.

11. An electric hand power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein the data storage medium is elastically bendable.

12. An electric hand power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein the data storage medium is integrated with said cord sleeve.

13. An electric hand power tool as defined in claim 6, wherein said means include surface adhesive means located in an interior of said pocket and firmly holding the data storage medium detachably therein.

14. An electric hand power tool as defined in claim 13, wherein said surface adhesive means are selected from the group consisting of adhesives and hook-and-loop closure systems.

15. An electric hand power tool as defined in claim 6, wherein said double slot has a longitudinal hole with parallel long and short slots which merges with one another and downstream of which the data storage medium, after passing through said long and short slots, is located in captive fashion concealed from view.

16. An electric hand power tool as defined in claim 15, wherein said double slot forms two corner lips in a radial tab in a contour between said long and short slots, so that the data storage medium downstream of said lips is positionable secured in a way that is braceable in form-locking fashion.

17. An electric hand power tool, comprising a housing;

a drive motor;

a power cord extending to an outside from said housing and supplying energy to said drive motor, said power cord having an exit region with a cord sleeve that tubularly clasps said power cord;

means in said cord sleeve for receiving a data storage medium; and

the data storage medium received by said means.

18. A cord sleeve for a device, in particular an electric hand power tool provided with a power cord that extends to an outside, the cord sleeve comprising a cord element connectable with the power cord;

and means for receiving a data storage medium in said cord sleeve element.