Electric tool system, control method, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12186865-B2
Application number	US-202117919098-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 10, 2021
Priority date	Apr 23, 2020
Publication date	Jan 7, 2025
Grant date	Jan 7, 2025

Abstract

An electric tool system includes: a motor; an output shaft to be coupled to a tip tool; a transmission mechanism that transmits motive power of the motor to the output shaft; an acquirer that acquires, based on a current flowing through the motor, a torque value related to output torque provided by the tip tool; and a controller that has a torque management mode in which the controller controls the motor in accordance with an operating command entered by a user through a trigger switch and prevents the torque value from exceeding an upper limit value. The controller controls, when finding a predetermined condition satisfied in the torque management mode, a velocity of the motor into a predetermined restriction value irrespective of a manipulative variable of the trigger switch. The predetermined condition includes a condition that the torque value reach a threshold value smaller than the upper limit value.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electric tool system comprising:
a motor;
an output shaft to be coupled to a tip tool;
a transmission mechanism configured to transmit motive power of the motor to the output shaft;
an acquirer configured to acquire, based on a current flowing through the motor, a torque value related to output torque provided by the tip tool;
a trigger switch configured to accept an operating command entered by a user; and
a controller having a torque management mode in which the controller controls the motor in accordance with the operating command entered through the trigger switch and prevents the torque value acquired by the acquirer from exceeding an upper limit value,
the controller being configured to, when finding a predetermined condition satisfied in the torque management mode, control the motor to forcibly turn a velocity of the motor into a predetermined restriction value irrespective of a manipulative variable of the trigger switch,
the predetermined condition including a condition that the torque value acquired by the acquirer reach a threshold value smaller than the upper limit value,
the controller being configured to, when finding that the torque value acquired by the acquirer reaches the upper limit value after the predetermined condition is satisfied in the torque management mode, control the motor to stop running.

2. The electric tool system of claim 1 , further comprising an upper limit value setting unit configured to set one of a plurality of candidate upper limit values as the upper limit value.

3. The electric tool system of claim 2 , wherein
the restriction value is a value depending on the upper limit value set by the upper limit value setting unit.

4. The electric tool system of claim 2 , wherein
the threshold value is a value depending on the upper limit value set by the upper limit value setting unit.

5. The electric tool system of claim 1 , wherein
the controller is configured to control the motor by vector control, and
the acquirer is configured to acquire the torque value based on a torque current flowing through the motor.

6. The electric tool system of claim 1 , wherein
the controller is configured to control, in the torque management mode, the velocity of the motor in accordance with the manipulative variable of the trigger switch until the predetermined condition is satisfied.

7. The electric tool system of claim 1 , wherein
the controller is configured to, when finding the predetermined condition satisfied, perform control to change the velocity of the motor stepwise in multiple stages into the restriction value.

8. The electric tool system of claim 1 , wherein
the controller is configured to, when finding the predetermined condition satisfied, perform control to change the velocity of the motor in a single stage into the restriction value.

9. The electric tool system of claim 1 , wherein
the predetermined condition further includes a condition that the velocity of the motor be equal to or greater than the restriction value.

10. The electric tool system of claim 9 , wherein
the controller is configured to, even when only one of a first condition or a second condition is satisfied and then only the other of the first and second conditions is satisfied, decide that the predetermined condition fail to be satisfied, the first condition being a condition that the torque value reach the threshold value, the second condition being a condition that the velocity of the motor become equal to or greater than the restriction value.

11. The electric tool system of claim 1 , wherein
the controller is configured to, when the torque value reaches the upper limit value, make the motor stop running.

12. A control method for controlling an electric tool system, the electric tool system including: a motor; an output shaft to be coupled to a tip tool; a transmission mechanism configured to transmit motive power of the motor to the output shaft; an acquirer configured to acquire, based on a current flowing through the motor, a torque value related to output torque provided by the tip tool; and a trigger switch configured to accept an operating command entered by a user, the control method comprising:
controlling the motor in a torque management mode in which the motor is controlled in accordance with the operating command entered through the trigger switch and the torque value acquired by the acquirer is prevented from exceeding an upper limit value,
controlling, when finding a predetermined condition satisfied in the torque management mode, the motor to forcibly turn a velocity of the motor into a predetermined restriction value irrespective of a manipulative variable of the trigger switch,
the predetermined condition including a condition that the torque value acquired by the acquirer reach a threshold value smaller than the upper limit value, and
controlling, when finding that the torque value acquired by the acquirer reaches the upper limit value after the predetermined condition is satisfied in the torque management mode, the motor to stop running.

13. A non-transitory storage medium storing a program designed to cause one or more processors to perform the control method of claim 12 .

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Murui Itaru
• Fujii Shota
• Momoeda Kotaro

Classifications

• B25F5/001

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

• B25B21/00

  Portable power-driven screw or nut setting or loosening tools; (details or components, e.g. casings, bodies, of portable power-driven tools not particularly related to the operation performed B25F5/00; {for mounting or dismounting wheels B60B29/006}); Attachments for drilling apparatus serving the same purpose (machines B23P19/06) · CPC title

• B25B23/147 Primary

  specially adapted for electrically operated wrenches or screwdrivers · CPC title

• B25F5/00 Primary

  Details or components of portable power-driven tools not particularly related to the operations performed and not otherwise provided for · CPC title