Electric drill

• US 7,650,699 B2
• Filed: 04/03/2006
• Issued: 01/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kazuhiro Yamamoto
• Original Assignee: Kazuhiro Yamamoto
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Kazuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): BENNETT, GEORGE B
• Application Number:
  US11/996,024
• Publication Number:
  US 20090028652A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,394 Days
• Field of Search: 333/33, 333/34, 333/54, 333/661.1, 335/34, 336/38, 173/2, 340/689, 408/5, 408/6, 408/9, 408/710
• US Class Current: 33/334
• CPC Class Codes: B23B 2260/094 Levels, e.g. spirit levels
• CPC Class Codes: B23B 2260/128 Sensors
• CPC Class Codes: B23B 49/00 Measuring or gauging equipment on boring machines for positioning or guiding the drill; Devices for indicating failure of drills during boring; Centering devices for holes to be bored marking-out equipment B25H7/00; measuring devices, gauges G01B
• CPC Class Codes: B25F 5/021 with guiding devices guiding devices for hand tools on stands or supports B25H1/0078
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 408/14 Responsive to condition of Tool or tool-drive

Abstract

An electric drill having a function for preventing drilling of unexpected oblique hole. Further, in the electric drill, when the direction of drilling is displaced in drilling work using the electric drill, it is sensed automatically to stop the drilling. The electric drill (1) performs drilling in the direction perpendicular a workpiece (7) and has a tilt sensor (10) mounted on a tilt sensor mounting surface (8) defined in parallel to the ground surface. When the rotation axis (C) of the drill positioned perpendicular to the surface of the workpiece is tilted to an angle equal to or greater than a predetermined angle, the tilt sensor (10) senses the tilt to shutoff a drive current of the electric drill.

Claims

1. An electric drill for boring holes on a workpiece material in the vertical direction including an inclination sensor mounted on an inclination sensor mount plane set parallel to the surface of the ground,

wherein when a rotation axis of said drill positioned on the surface of said workpiece material in the vertical direction is tilted at an angle greater than a predetermined angle, said inclination sensor senses said inclination to interrupt a drive current of said electric drill.

2. The electric drill according to claim 1,

wherein said inclination sensor is an inclination sensor for sensing an inclination and interrupting a drive current of said electric drill if the rotation axis of said drill that is perpendicularly positioned on the surface of said workpiece material is tilted at an angle greater than a predetermined angle in the X-axis direction or the Y-axis direction when holes are bored in the vertical direction, where a boring portion is set to an origin, axes which cross each other at said origin are prescribed as a Y-axis in the upper direction of a workpiece surface, as an X axis in the right direction and as a Z axis in front of a worker along a boring direction on the surface of said workpiece material set in parallel to the surface of the ground.

3. The electric drill according to claim 1,

wherein said inclination sensor is an inclination sensor for sensing an inclination and interrupting a drive current of said electric drill if the rotation axis of said drill that is perpendicularly positioned on the surface of said workpiece material is tilted at an angle greater than a predetermined angle in the Y-axis direction when holes are bored in the horizontal direction, where a boring portion is set to an origin, axes which cross each other at said origin are prescribed as a Y axis in the upper direction of a workpiece surface, as an X axis in the right direction and as a Z axis in front of a worker along a boring direction on the surface of said workpiece material set in the vertical direction.

5. The electric drill according to claim 1, wherein said inclination sensor again conducts said electric drill drive current to said electric drill when the rotation axis of said electric drill is again returned within an angle less than a predetermined angle after the rotation axis of said electric drill is tilted at an angle greater than a predetermined angle from a boring direction obtained at the start of boring holes.

6. The electric drill according to claim 1, further including an inclination sensor mount plate within said electric drill, wherein said inclination sensor mount plate can be held parallel to the surface of the ground at the start of boring holes.

7. The electric drill according to claim 1, further including a workpiece surface gradient setting dial, wherein said inclination sensor mount plane can be held parallel to the surface of the ground by said workpiece surface gradient setting dial at the start of boring holes.

8. The electric drill according to claim 1, further including means for rotating and fixing said inclination sensor mount plane and said inclination sensor at the start of boring holes.

4. An electric drill for boring holes in a workpiece material including an inclination sensor located on an inclination sensor mount plane which inclination sensor mount plane is defined as a plane parallel to the surface of the ground within said electric drill, wherein said inclination sensor senses an inclination and interrupts said drill drive current when a rotation axis of said electric drill is tilted at an angle greater than a predetermined angle from a boring direction obtained at the start of boring holes.

9. An electric drill for boring holes in a workpiece material in a perpendicular direction including

an attitude angle detecting sensor set to said electric drill for detecting a posture angle of said electric drill, wherein said attitude angle detecting sensor senses an inclination and interrupts a drive current of said electric drill when an posture angle of said electric drill is tilted at an angle greater than a predetermined angle.

10. The electric drill according to claim 9,

wherein said attitude angle detecting sensor is a motion sensor using more than one of a gyro, an acceleration sensor and a terrestrial magnetism sensor.