Spindle lock for rotary power tool

• US 7,287,602 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2005
• Issued: 10/30/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Zeiter, Olivier, Aeberhard, Bruno, Salzgeber, Beat
• Primary Examiner(s): Nash; Brian D.
• Application Number:
  US11/273,423
• Publication Number:
  US 20060131127A1
• Time in Patent Office: 715 Days
• Field of Search: 173/213, 173/217, 173/165, 173/164, 173/176, 173/178
• US Class Current: 173/213
• 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: B25F 5/001 Gearings, speed selectors, clutches or the like specially adapted for rotary tools

Abstract

A slaving and blocking device for transmitting a torque from a driving part to a driven part and for stopping the driven part at a torque engaging the driven part has a slaving element fixable on the driving part and having slaving claws offset from one another in a circumferential direction, a roller star wheel connectable to the driven part and having points of a star offset from one another in the circumferential direction, and a stationary clamping ring located concentrically with the slaving element and the roller star wheel. A contact face on the points of the star is configured so that the clamping rollers, which when the slaving element is driven are pressed by the slaving claws against contact faces of the points of the star, are thrust inwards. The slaving faces on the slaving claws are configured such that when the slaving element is driven, they load the clamping rollers with a pressure force such that a tangential force component of the pressure force is substantially greater than a radial force component of the pressure force.

Claims

1. A slaving and blocking device for transmitting a torque from a driving part to a driven part and for stopping the driven part at a torque engaging the driven part, the device comprising a slaving means fixable on the driving part in a manner fixed against relative rotation and having slaving claws, offset from one another in a circumferential direction, with slaving faces provided on sides facing away from each other and pointing in the circumferential direction;

a roller star wheel connectable to the driven part in a manner fixed against relative rotation and having points of a star, offset from one another in the circumferential direction, with contact and clamping faces embodied on sides facing away from one another;

clamping rollers located in freewheeling fashion in the circumferential direction between said slaving claws and said points of said star;

a stationary clamping ring located concentrically with said slaving means and said roller star wheel and having inner annular face forming a counterpart clamping face for said clamping rollers, said contact face on said points of said star being configured so that said clamping rollers, which when said slaving mean is driven are pressed by said slaving claws against said contact faces of said points of said star, are thrust inwards, and said slaving faces on said slaving claws are configured such that when said slaving means is driven, they load said clamping rollers with a pressure force such that a tangential force component of the pressure force is substantially greater than a radial force component of the pressure force,

wherein said contact faces and said clamping faces on said points of said star and said slaving faces on said slaving claws are configured as hollow curvatures, such that a Hertzian stress between said contact, clamping and slaving faces on one hand and said clamping rollers on another hand is minimized.

2. A slaving and blocking device as defined in claim 1, wherein a clamping angle of said clamping faces on said points of said star is adjustable, such that said clamping rollers, which are stopped between said clamping faces and said counterpart clamping face when said roller star wheel is driven are adapted to slip through if a maximum allowable Hertzian stress is exceeded.

3. A slaving and blocking device as defined in claim 1, wherein said slaving means have a disk-shaped slaving body, from which said slaving claws axially protrude, and on each slaving claw one axially extending reinforcing rib is located centrally.

4. A slaving and blocking device as defined in claim 3, wherein said slaving claws axially protrude from said disk-shaped slaving body in one piece with the latter.

5. A slaving and blocking device as defined in claim 3, wherein said one axially extending reinforcing rib is located centrally and in one piece with said slaving claw.

6. A slaving and blocking device as defined in claim 3, wherein said reinforcing ribs are configured and positioned on the slaving claws so that a lesser moment of inertia of said slaving claws is increasable.

7. A slaving and blocking device as defined in claim 1, wherein said slaving claws have roots which are rounded with a radius that is as large as possible.

8. A slaving and blocking device as defined in claim 1, wherein the slaving and blocking device is formed as a spindle block for hand power tools with a rotating tool bit.

9. A hand power tool, comprising a tool bit;

a spindle that carries said tool bit;

an electric motor rotary drive for rotationally driving said spindle that carries said tool bit; and

a slaving and a blocking device located between said rotary drive and said spindle, said slaving and blocking device including a slaving means fixable on the driving part in a manner fixed against relative rotation and having slaving claws, offset from one another in a circumferential direction, with slaving faces provided on sides facing away from each other and pointing in the circumferential direction;

a roller star wheel connectable to the driven part in a manner fixed against relative rotation and having points of a star, offset from one another in the circumferential direction, with contact and clamping faces embodied on sides facing away from one another;

clamping rollers located in freewheeling fashion in the circumferential direction between said slaving claws and said points of said star;

a stationary clamping ring located concentrically with said slaving means and said roller star wheel and having inner annular face forming a counterpart clamping face for said clamping rollers, said contact face on said points of said star being configured so that said clamping rollers, which when said slaving mean is driven are pressed by said slaving claws against said contact faces of said points of said star, are thrust inwards, and said slaving faces on said slaving claws are configured such that when said slaving means is driven, they load said clamping rollers with a pressure force such that a tangential force component of the pressure force is substantially greater than a radial force component of the pressure force, wherein said contact faces and said clamping faces on said points of said star and said slaving faces on said slaving claws are configured as hollow curvatures.

10. A hand power tool as defined in claim 9, wherein the hand power tool is configured as a power drill.

11. A hand power tool as defined in claim 9, wherein the hand power tool is configured as a power screwdriver.