Combustion-type power tool with trigger control arrangements

• US 7,931,181 B2
• Filed: 02/17/2006
• Issued: 04/26/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Koki Holdings Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi KOKI Company Limited (Koki Holdings Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Akiba, Yoshitaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Rada; Rinaldi I.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Low; Lindsay M.
• Application Number:
  US11/356,106
• Publication Number:
  US 20060186166A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,894 Days
• Field of Search: 227/8, 227/9, 227/10, 227/11, 123/46.H, 123/46.R, 123/46.SC
• US Class Current: 227/10
• CPC Class Codes: B25C 1/008 Safety devices
• CPC Class Codes: B25C 1/08 operated by combustion pressure

Abstract

A combustion-type power tool includes a cylinder, a piston, a head, a combustion chamber frame, an ignition unit, a trigger, a control member. The combustion chamber frame is abuttable on the head to provide a combustion chamber in cooperation with the head and the piston. The trigger is operated by a user for driving the fastener into a workpiece. The control member detects that the combustion chamber has been provided and the trigger has been operated, and allows the ignition unit to ignite the combustible gas only when the control member detects that both the combustion chamber has been provided and the trigger has been operated.

Claims

1. A combustion-type power tool comprising

a housing;

a cylinder disposed in the housing and defining an axial direction;

a piston slidably disposed in the cylinder and reciprocally movable in the axial direction;

a head opposed to the piston;

a combustion chamber frame movable in the axial direction, the combustion chamber frame being abuttable on the head to seal a combustion chamber defined by the combustion chamber frame in cooperation with the head and the piston;

an ignition unit that ignites combustible gas injected into the combustion chamber;

a trigger that is operated by a user for driving a fastener into a workpiece, the trigger movable in the axial direction;

a lever having one end portion engageable with the combustion chamber frame and an other end portion located above the trigger, the lever being rotatable via engagement with the combustion chamber frame so that the other end portion moves between a first position and a second position which is closer than the first position from the trigger; and

a restrain member disposed between the trigger and the housing and extending toward the other end portion of the lever, the restrain member being in contact with the other end portion to prevent the trigger from moving into contact with the other end portion of the lever when the trigger is depressed before the other end portion takes the second position.

2. The combustion-type power tool according to claim 1, wherein the trigger includes a spark switch movable via trigger movement and is turned on when the trigger contacts with the other end portion of the lever.

3. The combustion-type power tool according to claim 1, wherein the restrain member comprises a V-shaped plate spring disposed between the trigger and the housing.

4. The combustion-type power tool according to claim 1, wherein the other end portion of the lever includes a first surface and a second surface located closer than the first surface from the trigger, and

wherein the restrain member contacts with the first surface when the trigger is depressed after the other end portion takes the second position and contacts with the second surface when the trigger is depressed before the other end portion takes the second position.