Impact tool anvil and method of manufacture

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12434370-B2
Application number	US-202418635271-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 15, 2024
Priority date	Apr 14, 2023
Publication date	Oct 7, 2025
Grant date	Oct 7, 2025

Abstract

An anvil for an impact tool including an impact receiving portion at an end of the anvil, the impact receiving portion including a lug having an impact receiving surface that receives impact from a hammer of the rotary power tool, a shank portion extending from the impact receiving portion, a drive portion located at an end of the shank portion opposite from the impact receiving portion, the drive portion including a plurality of drive surfaces configured to engage a tool bit, and a hardened layer formed on at least one of the drive portion or the impact receiving surface, the hardened layer having a higher hardness than a remaining portion of the anvil. The hardened layer is formed by a heating process.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An anvil for an impact tool, the anvil comprising:
an impact receiving portion at an end of the anvil, the impact receiving portion including a lug having an impact receiving surface that receives impact from a hammer of the impact tool;
a shank portion extending from the impact receiving portion;
a drive portion located at an end of the shank portion opposite from the impact receiving portion, the drive portion including a plurality of drive surfaces configured to engage a tool bit; and
a hardened layer formed on at least one of the drive portion or the impact receiving surface, the hardened layer having a higher hardness than a remaining portion of the anvil,
wherein the hardened layer is formed by a heating process.

2. The anvil of claim 1 , wherein compressive residual stresses are added to the hardened layer by a peening process.

3. The anvil of claim 2 , wherein the peening process is a laser peening process.

4. The anvil of claim 2 , wherein the compressive residual stresses are added to the hardened layer at a location that is beneath a surface of the anvil.

5. The anvil of claim 2 , wherein the hardened layer is formed by the heating process over an entirety of the drive portion, and wherein the compressive residual stresses are added, via the peening process, at only a portion of the drive portion.

6. The anvil of claim 5 , wherein the compressive residual stresses are added to at least a quarter of an area of each of the drive surfaces.

7. The anvil of claim 1 , wherein the hardened layer is formed on both the drive portion and the impact receiving surface.

8. The anvil of claim 1 , wherein the hardened layer does not extend along the shank portion.

9. An anvil for an impact tool, the anvil comprising:
an impact receiving portion at an end of the anvil, the impact receiving portion including a lug having an impact receiving surface that receives impact from a hammer of the impact tool;
a shank portion extending from the impact receiving portion; and
a drive portion located at an end of the shank portion opposite from the impact receiving portion, the drive portion including a plurality of drive surfaces configured to engage a tool bit,
wherein at least one of the impact receiving portion or the drive portion includes a region having compressive residual stresses; and
wherein the compressive residual stresses are imparted to the region by a laser peening process.

10. The anvil of claim 9 , wherein the region having compressive residual stresses is beneath a surface of the anvil.

11. The anvil of claim 9 , wherein the region is treated with a heating process to create a hardened layer in addition to the compressive residual stresses.

12. The anvil of claim 11 , wherein the drive portion includes the region, and wherein the hardened layer extends along an entire length of the drive portion.

13. The anvil of claim 9 , wherein the drive portion includes the region, and wherein the region includes corners of each of the plurality of drive surfaces that are positioned closest to the shank.

14. The anvil of claim 13 , wherein the region includes more than a quarter of an entire area of each of the plurality of drive surfaces.

15. The anvil of claim 14 , wherein the region includes the entire area of each of the plurality of drive surfaces.

16. The anvil of claim 9 , wherein the compressive residual stresses are imparted to the region by a shot peening process following the laser peening process.

17. An anvil for an impact tool, the anvil comprising:
an impact receiving portion at an end of the anvil, the impact receiving portion including a lug having an impact receiving surface that receives impact from a hammer of the impact tool;
a shank portion extending from the impact receiving portion;
a drive portion located at an end of the shank portion opposite from the impact receiving portion, the drive portion including a plurality of drive surfaces configured to engage a tool bit; and
a hardened layer formed on at least one of the drive portion or the impact receiving surface, the hardened layer having a higher hardness than a remaining portion of the anvil,
wherein the hardened layer is formed by a diffusion process.

18. The anvil of claim 17 , wherein the diffusion process includes carburization.

19. The anvil of claim 17 , wherein compressive residual stresses are added to the hardened layer by a peening process.

20. The anvil of claim 19 , wherein the peening process includes a laser peening process and a subsequent shot peening process.

Assignees

• Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp

Inventors

• Breitbach Anthony E
• Roeber Matthew W
• Lembach Eric A
• Geschke Zachary J
• Schneider Jacob P
• Roberts Braden A

Classifications

• B24C1/10

  for compacting surfaces, e.g. shot-peening (for deforming sheet metal, tubes or profiles B21D31/06; as a metallurgical treatment C21D7/00, C22F1/00) · CPC title

• B25D2217/0015

  Anvils · CPC title

• B25B21/02

  with means for imparting impact to screwdriver blade or nut socket · CPC title

• B25B23/0035

  Connection means between socket or screwdriver bit and tool · CPC title

• B23K26/356 Primary

  by shock processing · CPC title