Tool

• US 20130153250A1
• Filed: 12/09/2012
• Published: 06/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Eckert, Martin
• Application Number:
  US13/709,019
• Publication Number:
  US 20130153250A1
• 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 23/00 Details of, or accessories for, spanners, wrenches, screwdrivers bolt tensioners B25B29/02
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 23/147 specially adapted for electrically operated wrenches or screwdrivers

Abstract

A storage-battery-operated screwing tool is controlled by means of an external USB/Bluetooth keyboard.

Claims

1. A storage-battery-operated screwing tool, comprising:

a housing;

a tool controller integrated with the housing;

a radio module integrated with the housing, wherein the tool controller is configured to communicate with a device arranged remotely from the tool with the radio module; and

a first communication module located in the housing and configured to allow the tool controller to communicate with an external appliance having a compatible second communication module.

2. The tool according to claim 1, wherein the first communication module includes at least one of a USB module and a Bluetooth module.

3. A method for operating a storage-battery-operated screwing tool, having an integrated tool controller and an integrated first communication module, comprising:

using an external appliance having a compatible second communication module to parameterize and configure the tool.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein:

the first communication module used is a USB module and/or a Bluetooth module, and

the first communication module and the second communication module have a communication link set up between them, with the result that the external appliance can communicate with the tool controller by using the first communication module and the second communication module.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein:

the tool includes a memory, and

tool parameters stored in the memory are parameterized by means of the external appliance.

6. The method according to claim 3, wherein:

the tool includes a memory, and

tool operating programs stored in the memory are selected by means of the external appliance.

7. The method according to claim 3, wherein:

the tool includes a memory, and

the memory is used to store configuration data that are required for the tool by means of the external appliance.

8. The method according to claim 3, wherein:

the tool includes a memory, and

tool operating data stored in the memory are requested by means of the external appliance.

9. The method according to claim 3, wherein:

the tool includes a display, and

at least some of the inputs by a user or advice to a user are/is displayed by means of the external appliance on the display.

10. The method according to claim 3, wherein the external appliance includes a computer keyboard and/or a computer mouse which at least temporarily undertakes the function of a tool control panel arranged on the tool.

11. The method according to claim 3, wherein the external appliance includes a computer having a second communication module, on which a configuration program for configuring the tool is executed.