POWER TOOL

• US 20120191250A1
• Filed: 07/06/2010
• Published: 07/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi KOKI Company Limited (Koki Holdings Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi KOKI Company Limited (Koki Holdings Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Iwata, Kazutaka, Takano, Nobuhiro, Tanimoto, Hideyuki, Shima, Yukihiro
• Application Number:
  US13/383,207
• Publication Number:
  US 20120191250A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/275
• 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: H02P 6/06 Arrangements for speed regulation of a single motor wherein the motor speed is measured and compared with a given physical value so as to adjust the motor speed

Abstract

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a power tool including: a motor; a driving circuit that supplies an electric power from a power supply to the motor; a control part that sets a target rotation number for the motor in accordance with a mode selected from a plurality of modes, each mode having a corresponding target rotation number; and a voltage detecting circuit that detects a voltage of the power supply, wherein the target rotation number is varied based on the detected voltage.

Claims

1. A power tool comprising:

a motor;

a driving circuit that supplies an electric power from a power supply to the motor;

a control part that sets a target rotation number for the motor in accordance with a mode selected from a plurality of modes, each mode having a corresponding target rotation number; and

a voltage detecting circuit that detects a voltage of the power supply,

wherein the target rotation number is varied based on the detected voltage.

2. The power tool of claim 1, further comprising:

a switch trigger to activate the motor,

wherein the control part measures the voltage after the switch trigger is turned on and before the motor starts to rotate, and sets the target rotation number based on the measured voltage.

3. The power tool of claim 1, further comprising:

a selecting switch to select between the plurality of modes,

wherein the control part measures the voltage when the mode is changed by the selecting switch.

4. The power tool of claim 1,

wherein the target rotation number is set to be proportional to the voltage of the power supply.

5. The power tool of claim 1,

wherein the driving circuit is an inverter circuit including a semiconductor switching element, and

wherein the control part controls a PWM duty which is supplied to the inverter circuit, thereby to control the rotation of the motor.

6. The power tool of claim 5,

wherein the control part controls the PWM duty by performing a PID control, thereby to bring the rotation number of the motor to the target rotation number.

7. The power tool of claim 6,

wherein the control part changes a gain of the PID control based on the measured voltage.

8. The power tool of claim 7,

wherein the gain is increased or decreased in proportion to the voltage of the power supply.

9. The power tool of claim 1,

wherein the motor is a brushless DC motor.