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Granted Patent B2
US 12,304,052 · App. 18/137,498 · Granted May 20, 2025

Electric power tool

Inventor: Fumitoshi Numata (Anjo, JP)
Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
B25F5/026B25F5/008
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Patent No.
US 12,304,052
App. No.
18/137,498
Granted
May 20, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electric power tool includes a housing, a fan, a tubular portion, and a rectifier. The housing houses a motor. The fan rotates in association with driving of the motor to generate a cooling air for the motor within the housing. The tubular portion is formed in the housing to house the fan. The rectifier is disposed to be opposed to the fan in an upstream side of the cooling air. The rectifier is divided into an inside and an outside in a radial direction of the tubular portion, the outside in the radial direction is formed of the tubular portion, and the inside in the radial direction is formed of a baffle plate assembled to the housing.

Claims (62)

1. A rotating tool comprising:

a tool body that houses a motor;

a final output shaft that rotates in association with driving of the motor and on which a tool bit is mounted;

an acceleration sensor disposed within the tool body;

a controller that monitors an acceleration rate detected by the acceleration sensor to control the driving of the motor; wherein

the acceleration sensor is elastically supported in the tool body,

the tool body includes a drive side housing that houses the motor and a vibration insulation side housing that elastically holds the drive side housing,

the vibration insulation side housing has a handlebar including an operation member for driving the motor, and

the acceleration sensor is disposed in a rear side with respect to the handlebar with the handlebar located between the sensor and the final output shaft in an axial direction of the tool body.

2. The rotating tool according to claim 1 , wherein

the acceleration sensor is located in the vibration insulation side housing.

3. The rotating tool according to claim 2 , wherein

the vibration insulation side housing holds the drive side housing in a front side, and

the acceleration sensor is disposed in a rear side with respect to the drive side housing.

4. The rotating tool according to claim 2 , wherein

the controller is disposed in the vibration insulation side housing, and

the acceleration sensor is disposed in the controller.

5. The rotating tool according to claim 4 , wherein

the controller incudes a control circuit board, and

the acceleration sensor is mounted on the control circuit board.

6. The rotating tool according to claim 2 , wherein

the drive side housing is an inner housing that includes the final output shaft, and

the vibration insulation side housing is an outer housing that is integrally disposed with the handlebar and inside which the inner housing is disposed.

7. The rotating tool according to claim 6 , wherein

the inner housing and the outer housing are coupled in a relatively rotatable manner via a coupling shaft extending in a predetermined direction.

8. The rotating tool according to claim 7 , wherein

the inner housing is held onto the outer housing via an elastic body disposed in front of the coupling shaft.

9. The rotating tool according to claim 8 , wherein

the inner housing is in a tubular shape extending in a front-rear direction, and

the elastic body is in a ring shape externally mounted on the inner housing.

10. The rotating tool according to claim 7 , wherein

the coupling shaft is disposed in an up-down direction at a rear end of the inner housing.

11. The rotating tool according to claim 7 , wherein

the coupling shaft passes through the inner housing and has both ends held onto the outer housing via an elastic body.

12. The rotating tool according to claim 6 , wherein

electronic parts excluding the motor are housed within the outer housing.

13. The rotating tool according to claim 6 , wherein

the outer housing includes a battery pack serving as a power source.

14. The rotating tool according to claim 1 , wherein

the acceleration sensor includes a three-axis acceleration sensor element.

15. The rotating tool according to claim 1 , wherein

the controller includes a storage unit and stops the driving of the motor when the acceleration rate detected by the acceleration sensor exceeds a threshold preliminarily recorded in the storage unit.

16. A rotating tool comprising:

a tool body that houses a motor;

a final output shaft that rotates in association with driving of the motor and on which a tool bit is mounted;

an acceleration sensor disposed within the tool body;

a controller that monitors an acceleration rate detected by the acceleration sensor to control the driving of the motor; wherein

the acceleration sensor is elastically supported in the tool body,

the tool body includes a drive side housing that houses the motor and a vibration insulation side housing that elastically holds the drive side housing,

the acceleration sensor is located in the vibration insulation side housing, and

a tubular rubber being interposed between the vibration insulation side housing and the drive side housing.

17. The rotating tool according to claim 16 , wherein

the vibration insulation side housing holds the drive side housing in a front side, and

the acceleration sensor is disposed in a rear side with respect to the drive side housing.

18. The rotating tool according to claim 16 , wherein

the controller is disposed in the vibration insulation side housing, and

the acceleration sensor is disposed in the controller.

19. The rotating tool according to claim 16 , wherein

the drive side housing is an inner housing that includes the final output shaft, and

the vibration insulation side housing is an outer housing that is integrally disposed with the handlebar and inside which the inner housing is disposed.

20. The rotating tool according to claim 16 , wherein

the acceleration sensor includes a three-axis acceleration sensor element.

Priority Claims (3)
JP 2019-175932 · Sep 26, 2019 · national
JP 2019-175933 · Sep 26, 2019 · national
JP 2019-175934 · Sep 26, 2019 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 17022207 · Sep 16, 2020
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