Spindle locking device

• US 9,855,649 B2
• Filed: 05/29/2013
• Issued: 01/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/04/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Schnell, Pascal, Simm, Robert, Bannwart, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Scott A.
• Application Number:
  US14/412,279
• Publication Number:
  US 20150183106A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,679 Days
• Field of Search: 173 48, 173216, 173217, 173213, 173 29, 173156, 409182, 409134, 409231, 408710, 408239 R, 279150
• CPC Class Codes: B23B 2231/2081 Keys, spanners or wrenches to operate the collet chuck
• CPC Class Codes: B23B 2270/60 Prevention of rotation
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 5/043 Accessories for spindle drives
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 23/022 Spindle-locking devices, e.g. for mounting or removing the tool
• CPC Class Codes: B25F 5/001 Gearings, speed selectors, clutches or the like specially adapted for rotary tools
• CPC Class Codes: B27C 5/10 Portable hand-operated wood-milling machines; Routers

Abstract

A spindle locking device for a portable machine tool includes a locking unit and a movement activation unit. The locking unit has a movably mounted locking element configured to lock a spindle of the portable machine tool in at least one direction, and an operating element configured to actuate the locking element. The movement activation unit is configured to pretension the locking element in a direction towards a locking position, at least when the operating element is in an unactuated position.

Claims

1. A spindle locking device for a portable machine tool, comprising:

a locking unit including a movably mounted locking element configured to lock a spindle of the portable machine tool in at least one direction, and an operating element configured to actuate the locking element; and

a movement activation unit configured to pretension the locking element in a direction towards a locking position, at least when the operating element is in an unactuated position,

wherein the locking element is configured such that the locking element can only be moved into a released position by a pivoting movement of the operating element relative to the locking element about a motional axis of the operating element in which the operating element pivots from the unactuated position to an actuated position.

2. The spindle locking device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the movement activation unit includes a spring element configured to subject the locking element to a spring force in the direction towards the locking position.

3. The spindle locking device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the movement activation unit includes a holding element configured to hold the operating element in an actuated position.

4. The spindle locking device as claimed in claim 3, wherein:

the operating element includes a counter-holding element which corresponds with the holding element; and

the counter-holding element is configured to interact with the holding element to hold the operating element in an actuated position.

5. The spindle locking device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the movement activation unit includes a holding element configured as a spring-loaded latching bolt.

6. The spindle locking device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the movement activation unit includes an actuating projection configured to hold the locking element in a release position.

7. The spindle locking device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the actuating projection is positioned on the operating element eccentrically with respect to a motional axis of the operating element.

8. The spindle locking device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the operating element is configured to be pivotably mounted to the portable machine tool.

9. The spindle locking device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the locking element includes a locking recess configured to lock the spindle via a positive connection in order to prevent movement in at least one direction.

10. The spindle locking device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the operating element is configured as a cam such that pivoting the operating element from the unactuated position to the actuated position urges the locking element against the pretension of the movement activation unit along a linear path from the locking position to the released position.

11. A portable machine tool comprising:

a spindle locking device, including;

a locking unit having a movably mounted locking element configured to lock a spindle of the portable machine tool in at least one direction, and an operating element configured to actuate the locking element; and

a movement activation unit configured to pretension the locking element in a direction towards a locking position, at least when the operating element is in an unactuated position,

wherein the locking element is configured such that the locking element can only be moved into a released position by a pivoting movement of the operating element relative to the locking element about a motional axis of the operating element in which the operating element pivots from an unactuated position to an actuated position.