Power tool system

• US 9,430,928 B2
• Filed: 02/27/2015
• Issued: 08/30/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ikeda, Masaki, Miwa, Tatsuya, Tsuruta, Naoki
• Primary Examiner(s): Lau, Hoi
• Application Number:
  US14/633,355
• Publication Number:
  US 20160005295A1
• Time in Patent Office: 550 Days
• Field of Search: 340/573.1, 340/573.4, 340/539.14, 340/501, 340/870.02, 340/539.3, 340/5.2, 340/539.12, 340/539.21, 340/3.1, 340/539.11, 340/539.32, 340/870.15, 340/10.1, 340/540, 340/5.61
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B25F 5/00 Details or components of portable power-driven tools not particularly related to the operations performed and not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/18 Status alarms G08B21/02 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/93 Remote control using other portable devices, e.g. mobile phone, PDA, laptop
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/40 using a wireless architecture
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/04 adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user

Abstract

A power tool system includes a plurality of tool devices. Each of the tool devices includes a condition detection unit that detects condition information of the tool device and a communication unit capable of performing bidirectional wireless communication with a further one of the tool devices. The communication unit is configured to obtain the condition information of the tool device from the condition detection unit and transmit the obtained condition information of the tool device to the further one of the tool devices.

Claims

1. A power tool system comprising:

a plurality of tool devices, wherein each of the tool devices includes

a condition detection unit that detects condition information of the tool device, and

a communication unit capable of performing bidirectional wireless communication with a further one of the tool devices, wherein

the communication unit is configured to obtain the condition information of the tool device from the condition detection unit and transmit the obtained condition information of the tool device to the further one of the tool devices,

further comprising at least one mobile terminal having a communication protocol that is the same as those of the tool devices,

wherein the communication unit of each of the tool devices is configured to perform communication with the at least one mobile terminal, and

wherein the communication unit of each of the tool devices is configured to perform communication based on information that is predetermined and shared between the communication unit and the at least one mobile terminal.

2. The power tool system according to claim 1, wherein each of the tool devices includes a tool device body that includes a connector attached in a removable manner to the communication unit.

5. The power tool system according to claim 1, wherein when receiving the condition information of the tool device transmitted from the further one of the tool devices, the communication unit of each of the tool devices is configured to transmit, to another one of the tool devices and the mobile terminal that are capable of performing communication with the tool device, the received condition information of the tool device and the condition information of the tool device obtained from the condition detection unit.

3. A power tool system comprising:

a plurality of tool devices, wherein each of the tool devices includes

a condition detection unit that detects condition information of the tool device, and

a communication unit capable of performing bidirectional wireless communication with a further one of the tool devices, wherein

the communication unit is configured to obtain the condition information of the tool device from the condition detection unit and transmit the obtained condition information of the tool device to the further one of the tool devices,

further comprising at least one mobile terminal having a communication protocol that is the same as those of the tool devices,

wherein the communication unit of each of the tool devices is configured to perform communication with the at least one mobile terminal, and

wherein the communication unit of each of the tool devices is configured to transmit, to another one of the tool devices and the mobile terminal that are capable of performing communication with the tool device, the condition information of the tool device obtained from the condition detection unit.

4. The power tool system according to claim 3, wherein

when receiving the condition information of the tool device transmitted from at least one of the tool devices, the at least one mobile terminal generates a control signal based on the received condition information of the tool device and transmits the control signal to the at least one of the tool devices, which has transmitted the condition information of the tool device, and

each of the tool devices includes a controller that controls the tool device based on the control signal when the communication unit receives the control signal transmitted from the at least one mobile terminal.