Portable Tool and Method for Carrying Out Work Operations with Said Tool

• US 20120168188A1
• Filed: 12/24/2011
• Published: 07/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Eckert, Martin
• Application Number:
  US13/337,082
• Publication Number:
  US 20120168188A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 173/1
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 21/00 Portable power-driven screw or nut setting or loosening tools; details or components, e.g. casings, bodies, of portable power-driven tools not particularly related to the operation performed B25F5/00; for mounting or dismounting wheels B60B29/006; Attachments for drilling apparatus serving the same purpose machines B23P19/06
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 23/14 Arrangement of torque limiters or torque indicators in wrenches or screwdrivers couplings for transmitting rotation or clutches F16D; devices for measuring torque per se G01L
• 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 portable tool, in particular a screwing tool, has a tool head for processing a workpiece, has a drive device for driving the tool head, and has a control device for controlling the drive device, at least one work parameter of the drive device being variable. The tool has a signal detecting device, at least temporarily connected to the control device for signaling purposes, for wireless reception of signals, these signals being characteristic of at least the at least one work parameter, and the control device being fashioned in such a way that it defines the at least one work parameter in reaction to a signal detected by the signal detecting device.

Claims

1. A portable tool, comprising:

a tool head for processing a workpiece,

a drive device configured to drive the tool head, at least one work parameter of the drive device being variable,

a control device configured to control the drive device, and

a signal detecting device, at least temporarily connected to the control device for signaling purposes, for wireless reception of signals, these signals being characteristic of at least the at least one work parameter,

wherein the control device is fashioned in such a way that it defines the at least one work parameter in reaction to a signal detected by the signal detecting device.

2. The portable tool according to claim 1, wherein the signal detecting device has a barcode scanner.

3. The portable tool according to claim 1, further comprising a processor device configured to determine the work parameter from the signal detected by the signal detecting device.

4. The portable tool according to claim 1, further comprising a rechargeable battery for its power supply.

5. The portable tool according to claim 1, wherein the work parameter is selected from a group of work parameters that includes a torque of the drive device, a rotational speed of the drive device, an angle of rotation for a screwing operation, an electric current, an electric voltage, and combinations thereof.

6. The portable tool according to claim 1, further comprising a transmitter and/or a receiver configured to communicate with a central unit.

7. A method for carrying out workpiece processing operations with a portable tool, the tool having a tool head for processing a workpiece, a drive device for driving the tool head, at least one work parameter of the drive device being variable, a control device for controlling the drive device, and a signal detecting device, comprising:

wirelessly detecting a signal with the signal detecting device, the signal being characteristic of the work parameter, and

setting the work parameter in reaction to the signal with the control device.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the signal is detected immediately before a work operation with the set work parameter is carried out.

9. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

permitting a work operation with the work parameter only when a period between the detection of the signal and the beginning of the work operation does not exceed a prescribed maximum value.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein the signal is determined from a barcode.

11. The method according to claim 7, wherein the workpiece processing operation includes a screwing operation with the portable tool.