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US 12,202,053 · App. 17/221,633 · Granted Jan 21, 2025

Power tool

Inventors: Olaf Klabunde (Giengen/Brenz, DE); Juergen Blickle (Goeppingen, DE); Walter Thomaschewski (Filderstadt, DE); Fabian Bek (Boebingen, DE); Stefano Delfini (Bettlach, CH); Willi Fellmann (Solothurn, CH); Bruno Luescher (Zolfingen, CH); Milan Bozic (Solothurn, CH); Thomas Mathys (Lyss, CH); Daniel Grolimund (Zuchwil, CH)
Assignees: C. & E. Fein GmbH; Robert Bosch GmbH
B23B31/008B23B31/10B24B45/006B27B5/32B23B2231/48Y10T279/33
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Patent No.
US 12,202,053
App. No.
17/221,633
Granted
Jan 21, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention relates to a machine tool with a tool receiving device that is movable around an output shaft. The tool receiving device is designed to hold a tool device on the machine tool such that the output shaft and a tool rotation axis substantially coincide. The tool receiving device has at least one torque transmission region and a holding device. To transmit a driving force to the tool device, the torque transmission region has at least two output area regions arranged at a distance from said output shaft, with each having a multiplicity of surface points. The tangent planes to said surface points are inclined in regard to an axial plane including said output shaft. The tangent planes are inclined in regard to a radial plane extending perpendicularly to the output shaft. The machine tool thus transmits the output torque to the tool device via the tool receiving device.

Claims (69)

1. An oscillating machine tool having a tool receiving device which is movable around an output shaft axis in an oscillating manner,

wherein said tool receiving device is adapted to hold a tool device in such a manner on the oscillating machine tool that the output shaft axis and an axis of rotation of the tool device are substantially coincident,

wherein said tool receiving device comprises at least one torque transmission region and a holding device,

wherein, for transmitting a driving force to the tool device, said torque transmission region has at least two output area regions facing towards the output shaft axis and which are spaced apart from the output shaft axis, each output area region having a plurality of surface points,

wherein tangent planes to the surface points are inclined relative to an axial plane which includes the output shaft axis,

wherein said tangent planes are inclined relative to a radial plane extending perpendicular to the output shaft axis, and

wherein the at least two output area regions define a recess suitable for receiving at least a portion of the tool device.

2. The oscillating machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the at least two output area regions are at least in sections substantially planar.

3. The oscillating machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the at least two output area regions are at least partially curved.

4. The oscillating machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein the torque transmission region has at least a first upper boundary plane and at least a second lower boundary plane, wherein the at least a first upper boundary plane and the at least a second lower boundary plane are disposed substantially perpendicular to said output shaft axis,

wherein the at least a first upper boundary plane and the at least a second lower boundary plane are spaced from each other, and

wherein each of the at least two output area regions is disposed between one of the at least a first upper boundary plane and one of the at least a second lower boundary plane.

5. The oscillating machine tool according to claim 4 , wherein a plurality of the at least two output area regions extend between a single first upper boundary plane and a single second lower boundary plane.

6. The oscillating machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein the torque transmission region has a plurality of the at least two output area regions which are arranged rotationally symmetrically around the output shaft axis.

7. The oscillating machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein two or more of the at least two output area regions are arranged symmetrically to a plane of symmetry,

wherein the output shaft axis is located in said plane of symmetry.

8. The oscillating machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein the torque transmission region has a side wall, and wherein the side wall is radially spaced from the output shaft axis, and

wherein the side wall comprises the at least two output area regions.

9. The oscillating machine tool according to claim 8 , wherein the side wall extends substantially closed radially around the output shaft axis.

10. The oscillating machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein the recess is substantially a hollow conical recess, wherein the recess has a cross-section with a circumference which has a variable spacing to the output shaft axis in a plane which is orthogonal to the output shaft axis.

11. The oscillating machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein the recess is formed substantially as a blind hole.

12. The oscillating machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein the torque transmission region has a machine tool cover surface section.

13. The oscillating machine tool according to claim 12 , wherein a further recess is formed in the machine tool cover surface section.

14. The oscillating machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein between one of the tangent planes and said radial plane an angle α is enclosed, wherein said radial plane is perpendicular to the output shaft axis,

wherein the angle α is less than 90 degrees,

and wherein the angle α is larger than 0 degrees.

15. The oscillating machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein between one of the tangent planes and said axial plane, wherein the output shaft axis is located in said axial plane, an angle β is included such that the angle β is less than 90 degrees, and

wherein the angle β is larger than 0 degrees.

16. The oscillating machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein the torque transmission region has an even number of the at least two output area regions.

17. The oscillating machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein the at least two output area regions are arranged essentially in a star-shaped manner.

18. The oscillating machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein the oscillating machine tool has at least one keying device,

wherein the at least one keying device comprises at least a first cross-sectional area, and

wherein the at least one keying device has a first extent substantially in a direction perpendicular to said first cross-sectional area.

19. The oscillating machine tool according to claim 18 , wherein one of the at least one keying device is, or a plurality of the at least one keying device are, arranged with a rotational symmetry around the output shaft axis.

20. The oscillating machine tool according to claim 18 , wherein a shape of at least one of the at least one keying device is selected from a group of shapes comprising at least:

a polygon having a plurality of corners,

a circle,

an ellipse,

an arc with a variable or a constant radius, or

a combination of at least two of these shapes.

21. The oscillating machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein the holding device comprises at least one device selected from a group of devices or wherein the holding device comprises a combination of two or more of the devices selected from the group of devices, and

wherein said group includes the following devices:

a screw device,

a tie bar device,

a hook device,

a clip device,

a ratchet device,

a bayonet closure device,

a device with locking projections, and

a device with ball sections and blocking sections.

22. A machine tool system comprising the oscillating machine tool according to claim 1 and the tool device, wherein the tool receiving device is arranged to hold the tool device on the oscillating machine tool in such a manner that the output shaft axis of the oscillating machine tool and the axis of rotation of the tool device substantially coincide.

23. The machine tool system according to claim 22 , wherein the holding device has at least one effective area for transmitting a force acting on the tool device and,

in a direction along the output shaft axis, on a side facing away from the oscillating machine tool, the holding device is limited by a holding device boundary surface, and the tool device comprises a tool device attachment region and the axis of rotation of the tool device, wherein the tool device attachment region comprises at least one side wall and wherein the tool device attachment region extends in an axial direction between a first orthogonal plane and a second orthogonal plane, these planes being disposed orthogonal to the axis of rotation of the tool device, said at least one side wall of the tool device attachment region being spaced radially from the axis of rotation of the tool device and having an axial extent in a direction of the axis of rotation of the tool device, and

wherein the holding device is arranged to exert a force on the tool device in a region of the at least one effective area, and

wherein said force has at least one component in the direction of the axis of rotation of the tool device.

24. The machine tool system according to claim 23 , wherein, when the tool device is mounted on the oscillating machine tool, the holding device boundary surface and the at least one effective area of the holding device are located between the first orthogonal plane and the second orthogonal plane of the tool device attachment region.

25. The machine tool system according to claim 23 , wherein the at least one side wall of the tool device attachment region comprises one or more sections extending radially between a first radial distance and a second radial distance to the axis of rotation of the tool device, and

wherein at least one of these sections is configured to transmit a torque from the oscillating machine tool to the tool device.

26. The machine tool system according to claim 23 , wherein the at least one side wall of the tool device attachment region has tool device driving area regions and

wherein the at least one side wall of the tool device attachment region comprises, at least in sections, a conjugated progression to the at least two output area regions of the torque transmission region, and

wherein the tool device driving area regions contact, at least in sections, the at least two output area regions.

27. A tool device comprising:

an operating region, which is adapted to act on a work piece or on an arrangement of work pieces;

a tool device attachment region, that is adapted to receive driving forces; and

a tool connection region, which is adapted to transmit the driving forces received by the tool device attachment region to the operating region,

wherein the tool device attachment region comprises at least one side wall,

wherein the at least one side wall of the tool device attachment region comprises tool device driving area regions,

wherein the tool device driving area regions have, at least in part, a negative shape of the at least two output area regions of the oscillating machine tool according to claim 1 , in order thereby to enable a positive connection between the tool device and the tool receiving device of the oscillating machine tool, and

wherein the tool device is adapted to be rotated by the oscillating machine tool, in an oscillating manner, about the output shaft axis of the oscillating machine tool.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 2, 2021
From: KLABUNDE, OLAF; BLICKLE, JUERGEN; THOMASCHEWSKI, WALTER; BEK, FABIAN; DELFINI, STEFANO; FELLMANN, WILLI; LUESCHER, BRUNO; BOZIC, MILAN; MATHYS, THOMAS; GROLIMUND, DANIEL
To: C. & E. FEIN GMBH; ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
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Priority Claims (1)
DE 202013006900.7 · Aug 1, 2013 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 16028860 · Jul 6, 2018
Continuation 14909233
Related Publication 20210220923A1 · Jul 22, 2021
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