Electric power tool

• US 20110073343A1
• Filed: 09/21/2010
• Published: 03/31/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Power Tool Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Power Tool Company Limited
• Inventors: Miyazaki, Hiroshi, Sawano, Fumiaki, Shimizu, Hidenori
• Application Number:
  US12/923,418
• Publication Number:
  US 20110073343A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 173/217
• 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: B25F 5/006 Vibration damping means

Abstract

An electric power tool includes a housing, a motor arranged within the housing, a power transmission unit arranged within the housing for transferring rotation of the motor to a work tool, a motor control unit arranged within the housing for controlling the rotation of the motor, and a trigger switch retractably provided to the housing for instructing the motor control unit to control the rotation of the motor. The electric power tool further includes a wireless communication device arranged within the housing for wirelessly communicating the work information on the content of works. The wireless communication device includes an antenna unit. The wireless communication device is covered with a shock-absorbing material. The antenna unit is arranged to lie higher than the trigger switch when the electric power tool is stored in a specified storage state.

Claims

1. An electric power tool, comprising:

a housing;

a motor arranged within the housing;

a power transmission unit arranged within the housing for transferring rotation of the motor to a work tool;

a motor control unit arranged within the housing for controlling the rotation of the motor;

a trigger switch provided to the housing for instructing the motor control unit to control the rotation of the motor; and

a wireless communication device arranged within the housing for wirelessly communicating the work information on the content of works, the wireless communication device including an antenna unit,

wherein the wireless communication device is covered with a shock-absorbing material, the antenna unit being arranged to lie higher than the trigger switch when the electric power tool is stored in a specified storage state.

2. The electric power tool of claim 1, wherein the specified storage state is a state in which the electric power tool is stored in a tool folder such that an output portion thereof for holding the work tool faces obliquely downwards.