Housing device for hand-held power tool

• US 20070044983A1
• Filed: 06/16/2006
• Published: 03/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Wuensch, Steffen, Hirschburger, Wolfgang, Lutz, Manfred, Yeoh, Sim
• Granted Patent: US 7,682,035 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 173/217
• CPC Class Codes: B25F 5/00 Details or components of portable power-driven tools not particularly related to the operations performed and not otherwise provided for

Abstract

A housing device for a hand-held power tool has at least one see-through region composed of a transparent plastic, and having an interior side configured as a carrier for an element selected from the group consisting of an information element, a signal element, and both; and also a hand-held power tool is provided with such a housing device.

Claims

1. A housing device for a hand-held power tool, comprising at least one see-through region composed of a transparent plastic, said at least one see-through region having an interior side configured as a carrier for an element selected from the group consisting of an information element, a signal element, and both.

2. A housing device for a hand-held power tool as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising at least one illuminating element for illuminating said interior side of said see-through region.

3. A housing device for a hand-held power tool as defined in claim 2, wherein said illuminating element is configured so as to be activated depending on an operating mode of a hand-held power tool that includes said see-through region.

4. A housing device for a hand-held power tool as defined in claim 2, wherein said illuminating element is configured so as to be activated depending on a speed of a hand-held power tool that includes said see-through region.

5. A housing device for a hand-held power tool as defined in claim 2, wherein said illuminating element is cast with said see-through region.

6. A housing device for a hand-held power tool as defined in claim 2, wherein said illuminating element is configured as a light-emitting diode.

7. A housing device for a hand-held power tool as defined in claim 2, wherein said illuminating unit includes a light exit surface.

8. A housing device for a hand-held power tool as defined in claim 2, wherein said illuminating element is configured as a surface-mountable light-emitting diode.

9. A housing device for a hand-held power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein said interior side of said see-through region includes, in at least one subregion, a mask that is impermeable to at least one part of a visible optical spectrum.

10. A housing device for a hand-held power tool as defined in claim 9, wherein said mask is configured as a mask printed on said interior side of said see-through region.

11. A housing device for a hand-held power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein said element selected from the group consisting of said information element, said signal element and both is a product label.

12. A housing device for a hand-held power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein said see-through region is configured as an elastic see-through region.

13. A housing device for a hand-held power tool as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising at least one switch element located underneath said see-through region for switching an operating mode of a hand-held power tool that includes said see-through region.

14. A housing device for a hand-held power tool as defined in claim 2;

and further comprising a control unit for actuating said illuminating element depending on an operating mode of a hand-held power tool that includes said see-through region.

15. A housing device for a hand-held power tool as defined in claim 2;

and further comprising a control unit for turning said illuminating element on and off periodically in at least one operating mode.

16. A housing device for a hand-held power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein said see-through region is configured as a lettering motif.

17. A hand-held power tool, comprising a housing device having at least one see-through region composed of a transparent plastic, said see-through region having an interior side configured as a carrier for an element selected from the group consisting of an information element, a signal element, and both.