Hand-held power tool comprising a gearshift unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10994403-B2
Application number	US-201616062715-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 7, 2016
Priority date	Dec 18, 2015
Publication date	May 4, 2021
Grant date	May 4, 2021

Abstract

In a hand-held power tool with a drive unit comprising at least one drive motor and a transmission coupled to the drive motor for driving a working tool, wherein the transmission can be shifted between at least two different gear ratios, a communication interface is provided for communication with a guide unit operable by a user and designed to receive gearshift instructions from the guide unit for shifting the transmission between the two different gear ratios according to the specific use.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A hand-held power tool comprising:
a drive unit having at least one drive motor configured to drive an insert tool and a gearbox coupled to the at least one drive motor, the gearbox configured to switch between at least two different gear ratios; and
a communications interface configured to communicate with a user guide unit configured to be activated by a user, the communications interface configured to receive from the user guide unit switching instructions for switching the gearbox in an application-specific manner between the two different gear ratios, wherein:
the communications interface is configured to transmit a control signal to at least one operating element enabling the at least one operating element to generate a command to initiate the switching procedure that switches the gearbox between the two different gear ratios upon activation by the user.

2. The hand-held power tool as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the user guide unit is at least one of (i) at least in part integrated in the hand-held power tool and (ii) at least in part configured as an external, separate component.

3. The hand-held power tool as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the user guide unit has a mobile computer.

4. The hand-held power tool as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the mobile computer is one of a smart phone and a tablet computer.

5. The hand-held power tool as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the user guide unit has an interactive program.

6. The hand-held power tool as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the interactive program is a smart phone app.

7. The hand-held power tool as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the at least one operating element has an illumination device; and
the control signal is configured to activate the illumination device to visualize the command to be generated upon activation of the at least one operating element by the user.

8. The hand-held power tool as claimed in claim 7 , wherein:
the at least one operating element includes a plurality of operating elements; and
the control signal is configured to illuminate only a selected one of the plurality of operating elements.

9. The hand-held power tool of claim 8 , wherein the selected one of the plurality of operating elements is selected based upon a predefined operation.

10. The hand-held power tool as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one operating element is configured as one of a switch and a push-button.

11. The hand-held power tool as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the at least one operating element has a display; and
the control signal is configured to generate an indication on the display to visualize the command to be generated upon activation of the at least one operating element by the user.

12. The hand-held power tool as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the display is configured as a touchscreen.

13. The hand-held power tool as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the at least one operating element has a sensor configured to transmit an activation signal to the communications interface in response to the at least one operating element being activated.

14. The hand-held power tool as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:
a servomotor configured to switch the gearbox between the two different gear ratios in response to the at least one operating element gearbox being activated.

15. The hand-held power tool as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the communications interface is configured to transmit a control signal configured to activate the servomotor to the servomotor.

16. The hand-held power tool as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the communications interface is configured to transmit a control signal to actuators of the hand-held power tool; and
at least one actuator of the actuators is configured to, when activated by the communications interface, switch the gearbox between the two different gear ratios.

17. The hand-held power tool as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the communications interface is configured as a wireless transmission module.

18. The hand-held power tool as claimed in claim 17 , wherein the wireless transmission module is a radio module configured to communicate wireless using a Bluetooth standard.

Assignees

• Bosch Gmbh Robert

Inventors

• Bantle Florian
• Duerr Thomas
• Gairing Juergen

Classifications

• B25F5/001 Primary

  Gearings, speed selectors, clutches or the like specially adapted for rotary tools · CPC title

• B25B21/008

  with automatic change-over from high speed-low torque mode to low speed-high torque mode · CPC title

• B25D16/006

  Mode changers; Mechanisms connected thereto · CPC title

• B25D2250/005

  Adjustable tool components; Adjustable parameters · CPC title