Electric power tool

• US 6,840,335 B1
• Filed: 10/09/2003
• Issued: 01/11/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mobiletron Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Mobiletron Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Wu, Chien-Chun
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Scott A.
• Application Number:
  US10/681,115
• Time in Patent Office: 460 Days
• Field of Search: 173/217, 173/117, 173/216, 173/104, 310/47, 310/50, 429/99
• US Class Current: 173/217
• CPC Class Codes: B25F 5/02 Construction of casings, bodies or handles B25F5/006, B25F5/008 take precedence

Abstract

An electric power tool includes a tool unit and a battery pack. The tool unit includes a pair of conjunct grooves and two corresponding blocks. The battery pack includes a pair of conjunct rails and two locking members. The tool unit and the battery pack are connected and locked with each other respectively by that the conjunct grooves and the conjunct rails are interconnected with each other and the two locking members and the two blocks are jammed together. In addition, the tool unit and the battery pack can be dimensionally reduced and the cohesive effect therebetween can be strengthened respectively by the conjunct grooves and the conjunct rails.

Claims

1. An electric power tool comprising:

a tool unit having a tool body and a coupling member connected to a bottom side of said tool body, said coupling member having inside a receiving chamber defining a bottom opening and a lateral opening respectively at a bottom side and a lateral side of said coupling member, said bottom and lateral openings being in communication with each other, said coupling member having two conjunct grooves respectively positioned at bilateral sides of said chamber, said two conjunct grooves being parallel to each other and defining two openings facing to each other, said two conjunct grooves respectively defining two insertion holes at the same side of said coupling member, said two insertion holes facing said lateral opening, said coupling member having two curbs positioned inside said chamber and respectively at lower sides of said two conjunct grooves, each of said two curbs defining a root end and a free end, said two free ends facing to each other, each of said two curbs having a guide surface extending from said free end towards said lateral opening and said root end; and

a battery pack having a housing and two locking members, said housing having a battery compartment inside and a top cover on which two parallel conjunct rails and two slots are formed, each of said two conjunct rails having a root portion and a rail portion, said two rail portions respectively extending from top sides of said two root portions towards opposite directions, said two slots being in communication with said battery compartment, said housing having two cavities at two opposite sides thereof, each of said two cavities having a through hole in communication with said battery compartment, each of said two locking members having a button, a locking portion, and an arm portion interconnecting said button and said locking portion, said two locking members being respectively connected to said housing to enable said two buttons respectively to be positioned inside said two cavities, to enable said two arm portions to be inserted into said two through holes, and to enable said two locking portions to respectively pass through and protrude out of said top cover to be further positioned under said two rail portions of said two conjunct rails.

2. The electric power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein said coupling member of said tool unit comprising a pair of skeleton members positioned respectively at bilateral sides of said chamber, said two skeleton members extending from an end in proximity of said lateral opening towards the other end of said coupling member, said two conjunct grooves being respectively formed on said two skeleton-like members and parallel extending from an end in proximity of said lateral opening towards the other end of said coupling member, each of said two insertion holes of said two conjunct grooves being positioned at an end abutting said lateral opening.

3. The electric power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein said tool unit further comprises an electrical contact positioned inside said chamber;

said battery pack comprises a power output contact disposed on said housing in corresponding position to said electrical contact.

4. The electric power tool as defined in claim 3, wherein said battery pack further comprises a set of battery cells fixedly mounted inside said battery compartment, an electrode of said battery cells being electrically connected with said power output contact.

5. The electric power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein said two cavities respectively define two openings at two lateral symmetrical sides of said housing;

each of said buttons has a main body having an interior surface and an exterior surface;

each of said two arm portions interconnects said interior surface of said main body and said locking portion;

when said two locking members are connected to said housing, said two exterior surfaces of said two main bodies are exposed respectively outside said two openings of said two cavities.

6. The electric power tool as defined in claim 5, wherein said battery pack further comprises two springs positioned respectively inside said two cavities, each of said two springs contacting against a bottom side of said corresponding cavity and said interior surface of said main body of said corresponding button respectively at two ends.