HAND-HELD POWER TOOL

• US 20120000682A1
• Filed: 06/30/2011
• Published: 01/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft (Hilti Martin Family Trust)
• Original Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft (Hilti Martin Family Trust)
• Inventors: GRAZIOLI, Mario
• Application Number:
  US13/174,188
• Publication Number:
  US 20120000682A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 173/1
• 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 hand-held power tool such as a drill, a nail gun, a hand-operated drive-in tool or a bolt setting tool, is disclosed. In order to further improve the operation of hand-held power tools, the hand-held power tool includes an electronic sensor device for detecting the position and/or a change in position of the hand-held power tool in the space.

Claims

1. A hand-held power tool, comprising:

an electronic sensor device, wherein a position and/or a change in position of the hand-held power tool is detectable by the electronic sensor device.

2. The hand-held power tool according to claim 1, further comprising a control device coupled to the electronic sensor device.

3. The hand-held power tool according to claim 2, wherein the control device includes a memory and wherein the position and/or the change in position and/or an acceleration of the hand-held power tool are storable in the memory.

4. The hand-held power tool according to claim 2, wherein a trigger release function and/or a trigger prevention function is controllable by the control device based on an input from the electronic sensor device.

5. The hand-held power tool according to claim 2, wherein a trigger disabling function is controllable by the control device based on an input from the electronic sensor device.

6. The hand-held power tool according to claim 2, wherein a transport release function and/or a transport disabling function for a fastening element is controllable by the control device based on an input from the electronic sensor device.

7. The hand-held power tool according to claim 2, wherein a device activation function and/or a device deactivation function is controllable by the control device based on an input from the electronic sensor device.

8. The hand-held power tool according to claim 2, wherein an unlocking function and/or a locking function is controllable by the control device based on an input from the electronic sensor device.

9. The hand-held power tool according to claim 2, wherein a power supply activation function, a power supply deactivation function and/or a power saving function is controllable by the control device based on an input from the electronic sensor device.

10. The hand-held power tool according to claim 2, wherein an intermediate storage activation function and/or an intermediate storage deactivation function is controllable by the control device based on an input from the electronic sensor device.

11. The hand-held power tool according to claim 1, wherein the electronic sensor device is an inertial sensor.

12. A method for controlling a hand-held power tool, wherein the hand-held power tool includes an electronic sensor device and a control device, comprising the steps of:

detecting a position and/or a change in position of the hand-held power tool by the electronic sensor device;

sending an electrical signal representative of the detected position and/or the change in position of the hand-held power tool from the electronic sensor device to the control device; and

controlling a function of the hand-held power tool by the control device based on the signal.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the electronic sensor device is an inertial sensor.

14. The method according to claim 12, further comprising the step of storing the signal in a memory.

15. The method according to claim 12, wherein the function is a trigger release function and/or a trigger prevention function.

16. The method according to claim 12, wherein the function is a trigger disabling function.

17. The method according to claim 12, wherein the function is a transport release function and/or a transport disabling function for a fastening element.

18. The method according to claim 12, wherein the function is a hand-held power tool activation and/or deactivation function.

19. The method according to claim 12, wherein the function is an unlocking function and/or a locking function.

20. The method according to claim 12, wherein the function is a power supply activation function, a power supply deactivation function, and/or a power saving function.