Handheld electromotive tool with sensor

• US 5,484,026 A
• Filed: 09/03/1993
• Issued: 01/16/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Inventors: Nakamura, Kyoji, Susaki, Toshikazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Rada, Rinaldi I.
• Application Number:
  US08/115,569
• Time in Patent Office: 865 Days
• Field of Search: 173/2, 173/11, 173/217, 173/20, 173/21, 173/4, 356/4, 356/152.1, 356/152.2, 356/152.3, 356/375, 356/399, 356/400
• US Class Current: 173/4
• 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 23/0064 Means for adjusting screwing depth
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 1/0085 by means of levels
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 1/0092 by optical means
• CPC Class Codes: E04F 15/024 Sectional false floors, e.g. computer floors height-adjustable supports for terrace roof coverings E04D11/00; underfloor heating using water F24D3/142, using air F24D5/10; installation of cables, lines or protective tubing in floors H02G3/28
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 15/004 Reference lines, planes or sectors

Abstract

A handheld electromotive tool capable of efficient execution of a floor board and a ceiling board is provided. The tool is used in combination with a beam emitting device for emitting a radiation beam in a reference plane, and is provided with a housing held by an operator. The housing has a work member driven by an electric motor and a photo detector for receiving the radiation beam projected in the reference plane. Output signals indicating positional deviation of the photo detector from the reference plane are generated on the basis of output of the photo detector. Rotation of the motor is controlled as follows. Rotation of the electric motor is stopped when the radiation beam is received at a reference position of the photo detector. The electric motor rotates at high speed until the radiation beam is received in the vicinity of the reference position. The electric motor rotates at low speed from the time the radiation beam is received in the vicinity of the reference position to the time the radiation beam is received at the reference position.

Claims

1. A handheld electromotive tool, comprising:

a rotation shaft;

an electric motor to drive said rotation shaft;

a work member provided around said rotation shaft to work an object;

a housing supporting said work member and holdable by an operator;

a position transducer means including a photo detector stationary with respect to said housing, which receives a radiation beam projected in a reference plane and generates output signals indicating positional deviation of said photo detector from said reference plane; and

control means for controlling the rotation speed of said motor according to said position transducer means,

wherein said control means controls the motor to stop rotation of the motor when the radiation beam is received at a reference position of the photo detector, to rotate the motor at high speed until the radiation beam is received in the vicinity of said reference position, and to rotate the motor at low speed from the time the radiation beam is received in the vicinity of the reference position to the time the radiation beam is received at the reference position.

2. A handheld electromotive tool according to claim 1, wherein said control means determines the directions of rotation of said motor on the basis of said output signals and controls the motor according to the thus determined directions of rotation.

3. An electromotive took comprising:

a rotation shaft;

a work member fixed to said rotation shaft;

an electric motor to drive said rotation shaft;

a photo detector to receive a radiation beam projected in a reference plane;

a signal processing circuit to judge a position of said photo detector, at which the radiation beam is received and which shifts as said rotation shaft is driven, on the basis of art output from the photo detector;

a drive control circuit to control the rotating speed of the motor according to said position judged by said signal processing circuit,

wherein said drive control circuit controls the rotating speed of the motor to stop rotating the motor when the laser beam is received at a reference position of said photo detector, to rotate the motor at high speed until the laser beam is received in the vicinity of said reference position, and to rotate the motor at low speed from a time when the laser beam is received in the vicinity of the reference position to a time when the laser beam is received at the reference position.

4. An electromotive tool according to claim 3 further comprising a handheld housing, wherein said photo detector is fixed to said housing.

5. An electromotive tool according to claim 3, wherein said drive control circuit drives said motor in the direction determined on the basis of said positions at which the beam is received.

6. An electromotive tool comprising:

a handheld housing;

a rotation shaft;

a work member fixed to said rotation shaft;

an electric motor to drive said rotation shaft;

a photo detector to receive a radiation beam projected in a reference plane;

a drive control circuit to control rotation of said motor according to output of the photo detector so that a reference position of the photo detector coincides with a position of the photo detector at which the radiation beam is received and which shifts in the direction of said rotation shaft as the rotation shaft is driven; and

a posture indicator provided to said housing to indicate verticality of said rotation shaft.

7. An electromotive tool according to claim 6, wherein said posture indicator comprises:

a sealed vessel whose top and bottom are sealed with a pair of transparent curved surfaces, the centers of which are convex outwards; and

a medium put in said vessel which gravitates and moves along said curved surfaces.