Hand-held machine tool

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9469020-B2
Application number	US-201314427545-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 10, 2013
Priority date	Sep 12, 2012
Publication date	Oct 18, 2016
Grant date	Oct 18, 2016

Abstract

A hand-held machine tool is disclosed. The tool has an electric motor and an output shaft which can be driven by the electric motor about a working axis. The output shaft has an intake space which is open on the output side for receiving a machine tool and which has two elongated holes cutting into the intake space in the radial direction. Blocking elements lie in the elongated holes and protrude into the intake space and are movable between an end on the output side of the elongated hole and an end on the drive side of the elongated hole. The blocking elements abut on a radial stop in the radial direction and are forced into the intake space in an engaging manner. The stop overlaps in a locked position with the ends on the output side of the elongated holes and can be moved in the withdrawal direction against a spring force of a spring for releasing a radial movement of the blocking elements from the engagement with the intake space. A second spring includes a support ring, two bows protruding from the support ring in the withdrawal direction and bent around the intake space in the form of a segment of a circle, and a pin engaging radially from each bow in the withdrawal direction in front of the blocking element into the elongated hole.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A handheld machine tool, comprising:
an electric motor;
an output spindle which is drivable by the electric motor to rotate about a working axis and which has a cylindrical or prismatic intake space, wherein the intake space is oriented along the working axis and is open at an output side for receiving a tool opposite a withdrawal direction and has two elongated holes in a radial direction;
two blocking elements, wherein the two blocking elements each are protrudable into the intake space and respectively lie in one of the two elongated holes and are movable between a first end of the elongated hole on the output side and a second end of the elongated hole on a drive side;
a radial stop, against which, in the radial direction, the two blocking elements are protrudable into the intake space at the first end of the elongated holes;
wherein the two blocking elements are displaceable out of protruding into the intake space by moving the radial stop in the withdrawal direction against a spring force of a first spring; and
a second spring which has a support ring and two bows which protrude away from the support ring in the withdrawal direction and which are curved in a form of a segment of a circle around the intake space, wherein a respective strap of each of the two bows has a pin which engages radially in a respective one of the two elongated holes in front of a respective blocking element in the withdrawal direction.

2. The handheld machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein the two bows are arranged in mirror symmetry to one another.

3. The handheld machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein the support ring has a slot and wherein the two bows are each attached on a respective side of the slot.

4. The handheld machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein the two bows are inclined by a clearance with respect to the support ring.

5. The handheld machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein the two bows span the working axis by less than 180°.

6. The handheld machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein the support ring, the two bows, and the pins are formed from one cohesive piece of wire.

7. The handheld machine tool according to claim 1 , wherein a ramp is connected to the radial stop opposite the withdrawal direction.

Assignees

• Hilti Ag

Inventors

• Funk Alexander
• Widmer Louis

Classifications

• B23B31/1071

  Retention by balls (balls acting as jaws B23B31/22) · CPC title

• B23B2260/136

  Springs · CPC title

• Y10S279/905

  with ball detent · CPC title

• Y10T279/17145

  Ball or roller · CPC title

• Y10T279/17752

  Ball or roller jaws · CPC title