Power tool

• US 8,186,453 B2
• Filed: 12/10/2009
• Issued: 05/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Makita Corporation
• Original Assignee: Makita Corporation
• Inventors: Furusawa, Masanori, Kasuya, Yoshihiro, Takeuchi, Hajime
• Primary Examiner(s): Rada, Rinaldi
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jallow, Eyamindae
• Application Number:
  US12/654,112
• Publication Number:
  US 20100155095A1
• Time in Patent Office: 901 Days
• Field of Search: 173 75- 79, 173/198, 173/199, 301/33
• US Class Current: 173/197
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 11/0046 by sucking
• CPC Class Codes: B25F 3/00 Associations of tools for different working operations with one portable power-drive means; Adapters therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B25F 5/026 in the form of an auxiliary handle B25F5/024 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 408/44 with means to apply transient, fluent medium to work or product
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 408/564 Movable relative to Tool along tool-axis

Abstract

It is an object of the invention to provide an effective technique for reducing adverse effect of a dust suction device on the operability of a power tool, in the power tool which can suck dust generated during operation. The power tool has a motor 111 and a tool body 103 that houses the motor 111. A tool bit 119 is coupled to a tip end region of the tool body and driven by the motor 111 to perform a predetermined operation. The power tool further includes a dust suction part 151 through which dust generated during operation by the tool bit 119 is sucked and which covers at least a tip end of the tool bit 119, a dust transfer passage 153 through which the dust sucked into the dust suction part 151 is transferred and which is partly disposed within the tool body 103, and a dust discharge port 174 through which the dust transferred through the dust transfer passage 153 is discharged to the outside. Further, the dust discharge port 174 is disposed on the opposite side of the motor 111 from the tool bit 119.

Claims

1. A power tool comprising:

a motor having a rotational axis,

a tool body that houses the motor, wherein a tool bit is coupled to a tip end region of the tool body and driven by the motor to perform a predetermined operation,

a dust suction part through which dust generated during operation by the tool bit is sucked, the dust suction part covering at least a part of the tool bit,

a dust transfer passage through which the dust sucked into the dust suction part is transferred, the dust transfer passage being disposed within the tool body, and

a dust discharge port through which the dust transferred through the dust transfer passage is discharged to the outside, wherein the dust discharge port is disposed laterally on one side of the rotational axis of the motor and the tool bit is disposed laterally on an opposite side of the rotation axis of the motor.

2. The power tool as defined in claim 1,

wherein the motor is disposed such that an extension of the rotational axis of the motor runs in a direction transverse to an axial direction of the tool bit, and

in a horizontal position of the tool body in which the axial direction of the tool bit coincides with a horizontal direction, a portion of the dust transfer passage extends in a direction transverse to an axial direction of an output shaft of the motor above the output shaft within the tool body.

3. The power tool as defined in claim 1, further comprising a handle having a grip part to be held by a user, the grip part extending in a direction transverse to an axial direction of the tool bit, both ends of the handle in the extending direction of the grip part being connected to the tool body by a connection, wherein the dust discharge port is formed in one of the connections of the handle to the tool body which is remote from an axis of the tool bit.

4. The power tool as defined in claim 1, further comprising an electric cord that supplies power to the motor, wherein the dust discharge port is disposed adjacent to the electric cord.

5. The power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein the dust suction part entirely covers the tool bit and has a cap-like shape having an open end formed as a dust suction port on the tool bit side, and on a side opposite to the dust suction port, the dust suction part has a connecting passage through which the dust sucked into a space between the dust suction part and the tool bit through the dust suction port is transferred to the dust transfer passage.

6. The power tool as defined in claim 5, further comprising a side handle extending in a direction transverse to an axial direction of the tool bit, wherein the dust suction part is mountable to the tool body with the side handle mounted to the tool body.

7. The power tool as defined in claim 5, wherein replacement of the tool bit can be made with the dust suction part mounted to the tip end region of tool body.

8. The power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein the dust suction part includes an expandable and contractable movable region having a tubular bellows to cover the tool bit and a fixed region mounted to the tip end region of the tool body, the movable region being removable from the fixed region so that the movable region is replaced.

9. The power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein openings are formed in the dust transfer passage to provide communication between the dust transfer passage and an internal space of the tool body.

10. The power tool as defined in claim 9, further comprising a driving mechanism that is driven by the motor and causes the tool bit to perform at least linear movement in the axial direction,

wherein the tool body has an inner housing that houses the driving mechanism and an outer housing that covers the inner housing, and

the dust transfer passage is disposed in an internal space between the inner housing and the outer housing.

11. The power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein

the tool body is formed by a plurality of tool body components, and

the dust transfer passage has a correspondingly configured split structure, so that a single dust transfer passage is formed when the plurality of tool body components are assembled into the tool body.

12. The power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein

the dust suction part has at least two mounting rods extending in an axial direction of the tool bit, and

the at least two mounting rods are removably inserted into mounting holes formed in the tool body, so that the dust suction part is mounted to the tool body by the at least two mounting rods.

13. The power tool as defined in claim 12, further comprising an unlocking sleeve for tool bit replacement, wherein

the unlocking sleeve is disposed in the tip end region of the tool body and is slidable by a user in the axial direction of the tool bit, and

each of the at least two mounting rods extends in a direction opposite to the tool bit, passing the outside of the unlocking sleeve and an extending end of each of the at least two mounting rods is inserted into an associated mounting hole of the tool body.

14. The power tool as defined in claim 1, wherein the dust transfer passage includes a hard pipe and a flexible hose connected to the hard pipe.

15. The power tool as defined in claim 1, further comprising a side handle extending in a direction transverse to an axial direction of the tool bit, wherein a through hole is formed through the side handle in the axial direction of the tool bit and a mounting rod of the dust suction part is removably inserted into a mounting hole of the tool body through the through hole.