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US 7,040,972 · App. 11/037,326 · Granted May 9, 2006

Power tool

Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
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Patent No.
US 7,040,972
App. No.
11/037,326
Granted
May 9, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

A power tool with a housing ( 12 ) and a tool ( 18, 22 ) located thereon such that it is capable of being driven in a rotating and/or oscillating manner, the tool being operable as directed using vacuum flow, in particular using a vacuum cleaner. The power tool is made particularly powerful by the fact that a radial turbine wheel ( 34 ) with forward-guiding and rearward-guiding vane rows ( 44, 48 ) functions as the drive.

Claims (21)

1. A power tool, comprising:

a housing ( 12 ); and

a tool ( 18 , 22 ) disposed on said housing in such a way that the tool is driven in a rotating and/or oscillating manner, the tool being operable using vacuum flow,

wherein a radial turbine with a radial turbine wheel ( 34 ) functions as a drive, the radial turbine having means for steadying inflowing and outflowing air in the form of a forward-guiding vane row and a rearward-guiding vane row ( 44 , 48 ),

wherein the rearward-guiding vane row ( 48 ) includes air guide bodies ( 52 ) configured as curved blades, wherein the rearward-guiding vane row ( 48 ) functions as a bearing seat for the radial turbine wheel ( 34 ), and wherein air which drives the radial turbine wheel is directed in a center region of the radial turbine wheel and is then suctioned away radially outwardly by an outer edge of the radial turbine wheel.

2. The power tool as recited in claim 1 ,

wherein the forward-guiding vane row ( 44 ) and the rearward-guiding vane row ( 48 ) are positioned in the housing ( 12 ) in a reinforcing manner.

3. The power tool as recited in claim 1 ,

wherein the vacuum flow which drives the turbine wheel ( 34 , 35 ) is guided separately from a dust air flow, so that air filled with dust and suctioned away from a work piece does not come in contact with parts of the power tool which move and/or conduct the drive air.

4. The power tool as recited in claim 1 ,

wherein air which drives the turbine wheel ( 34 , 35 ) enters the housing ( 12 ) through air intake ducts ( 60 ), wherein the air intake ducts are disposed remotely from the tool.

5. The power tool as recited in claim 1 ,

wherein the power tool is a surface sanding machine in the form of an oscillating sander.

6. The power tool as recited in claim 1 ,

wherein air which drives the turbine wheel ( 34 , 35 ) enters the housing ( 12 ) through air intake ducts ( 60 ), wherein the air intake ducts are disposed far above the tool ( 18 , 22 ), and wherein the tool is a material-removing tool.

7. A power tool, comprising:

a housing ( 12 ); and

a tool ( 18 , 22 ) disposed on the housing in such a way that the tool is driven in a rotating and/or oscillating manner, the tool being operable using vacuum flow,

wherein a radial turbine with a radial turbine wheel ( 34 ) functions as a drive, the radial turbine having means for steadying inflowing and outflowing air in the form of a forward-guiding vane row and a rearward-guiding vane row ( 44 , 48 ),

wherein a Pelton turbine with Pelton turbine wheel ( 35 ) with forward-guiding vane row and with rearward-guiding vane row ( 48 ) functions as the drive,

wherein the rearward-guiding vane row ( 48 ) includes air guide bodies ( 52 ) configured as curved blades, wherein the rearward-guiding vane row ( 48 ) functions as a bearing seat for the Pelton turbine wheel ( 35 ), and wherein air which drives the Pelton turbine wheel ( 35 ) is directed in a center region of the Pelton turbine wheel ( 35 ) and is then suctioned away radially outwardly by an outer edge of the Pelton turbine wheel ( 35 ).

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 18, 2005
From: HOFFMANN, ERHARD; FUCHS, FRANK
To: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
Reel/Frame 016208/0070 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2004 016 171 · Mar 30, 2004 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20050221739A1 · Oct 6, 2005