Power tool

• US 9,314,896 B2
• Filed: 06/11/2013
• Issued: 04/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Atlas Copco Industrial Technique Ab (Atlas Copco AB)
• Original Assignee: Atlas Copco Industrial Technique Ab (Atlas Copco AB)
• Inventors: Radif, Nabil Khalil
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, DUNG V
• Application Number:
  US14/411,785
• Publication Number:
  US 20150158138A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,043 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 23/026 Fluid driven
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 47/10 for rotating or reciprocating working-spindles carrying grinding wheels or workpieces
• CPC Class Codes: B25F 5/001 Gearings, speed selectors, clutches or the like specially adapted for rotary tools

Abstract

A hand held power tool includes: a motor room housing a motor that drives an output shaft; a bevel gear including interconnected pinion and crown gears, wherein the pinion gear is connected to a pinion shaft drivingly connected to the output shaft and the crown gear is drivingly connected to a tool holding shaft; a gear housing that delimits a fluid tight gear space around the bevel gear; a bearing, around the pinion shaft and close to the pinion gear, which delimits a confined space around the pinion shaft and within the gear space; and a fluid tight axial sealing, around the pinion shaft inside the confined space of the gear space, which seals off the gear space from the motor room. At least one fluid conveying opening is arranged to put the confined space of the gear space in fluid contact with the rest of the gear space.

Claims

1. A hand held power tool comprises:

a motor room that houses a motor that drives a motor output shaft;

a bevel gear comprising an interconnected crown gear and pinion gear, wherein the pinion gear is connected to a pinion shaft that is drivingly connected to the motor output shaft and the crown gear is drivingly connected to a tool holding shaft;

a gear housing that at least partly delimits a fluid tight gear space around the bevel gear;

a bearing, arranged around the pinion shaft and close to the pinion gear, which delimits a confined space around the pinion shaft and within the gear space; and

a fluid tight axial sealing, arranged around the pinion shaft inside the confined space of the gear space, which seals off the gear space from the motor room, wherein at least one fluid conveying opening is arranged to put the confined space of the gear space in fluid contact with the rest of the gear space,

wherein the bearing is supported by a hollow support member that is arranged outside the pinion shaft, and wherein the confined space of the gear space is axially delimited by the bearing on one side and by the fluid tight axial sealing on an other side further away from the bevel gear, and radially by the hollow support member.

2. The hand held power tool according to claim 1, wherein the at least one fluid conveying opening is arranged as at least one track between the bearing and the hollow support member.

3. The hand held power tool according to claim 2, wherein the hand held power tool is a grinder.

4. The hand held power tool according to claim 3, wherein the hand held power tool is a pneumatic grinder.

5. The hand held power tool according to claim 1, wherein the at least one fluid conveying opening is arranged as at least one channel through the hollow support member.

6. The hand held power tool according to claim 5, wherein the hand held power tool is a grinder.

7. The hand held power tool according to claim 6, wherein the hand held power tool is a pneumatic grinder.

8. The hand held power tool according to claim 1, wherein the bearing is supported by the gear housing, wherein the confined space of the gear space is axially delimited by the bearing on one side and by the fluid tight axial sealing on the other side, and wherein the at least one fluid conveying opening is arranged as at least one track along an interface between the bearing and the gear housing.

9. The hand held power tool according to claim 8, wherein the hand held power tool is a grinder.

10. The hand held power tool according to claim 9, wherein the hand held power tool is a pneumatic grinder.

11. The hand held power tool according to claim 1, wherein the hand held power tool is a grinder.

12. The hand held power tool according to claim 11, wherein the hand held power tool is a pneumatic grinder.