Fastening arrangement, portable working tool and method of fastening a first housing section to a second housing section

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9506486-B2
Application number	US-201414556773-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 1, 2014
Priority date	Dec 2, 2013
Publication date	Nov 29, 2016
Grant date	Nov 29, 2016

Abstract

A fastening arrangement for fastening a first housing section to a second housing section of a portable working tool as well as a method by means of which the connection of two housing sections to each other can be simplified are disclosed. A working tool is proposed with a bolt, which at least in sections has an external thread, an internal nut, which at least in sections has an internal thread, wherein the internal thread of the internal nut engages in the external thread of the bolt, and an external nut, which is connected to the internal nut in such a way that the internal nut is held in a displaceable manner in the external nut, whereby during a rotational movement of the external nut the internal nut follows the rotational movement of the external nut and the internal nut performs an axial movement relative to the external nut.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A fastening arrangement for fastening a first housing section to a second housing section of a portable working tool, the fastening arrangement comprising:
a bolt, which at least in sections has an external thread,
an internal nut, which at least in sections has an internal thread, wherein the internal thread of the internal nut engages in the external thread of the bolt, and
an external nut, which is connected to the internal nut in such a way that the internal nut is held in the external nut in a displaceable manner, wherein, during a rotational movement of the external nut the internal nut follows the rotational movement of the external nut and the internal nut performs an axial movement relative to the external nut along a longitudinal axis of the bolt, wherein
the internal nut is configured to protrude from the external nut to provide a free end of the fastening arrangement in a direction of the longitudinal axis of the bolt.

2. The fastening arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the internal nut is positively connected to the external nut.

3. The fastening arrangement according to claim 2 , wherein the positive connection is designed as a groove-spring connection.

4. The fastening arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the external nut has a stop formed on an inner circumferential surface of the external nut and the internal nut has a counter-stop formed on an outer circumferential surface of the internal nut, wherein the stop and the counter-stop holds the internal nut in a loss-proof manner in an internal space of the external nut.

5. The fastening arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the external nut has a projection formed on an outer circumferential surface of the external nut such that the external nut can be fastened to the first or the second housing section.

6. The fastening arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the external nut has a tool attachment surface.

7. The fastening arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the fastening arrangement has a press bushing.

8. A portable working tool, with a first housing section and a second housing section, wherein the first housing section is fastened to the second housing section by the fastening arrangement according to claim 1 .

9. The fastening arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the internal nut defines a spacer between an inner surface of the external nut and the external thread of the bolt so that the external nut does not contact the bolt.

10. The fastening arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the internal nut is provided with ribs on an outer circumferential surface of the internal nut and the external nut is provided with grooves on an inner circumferential surface of the external nut, the ribs of the internal nut being positioned within and configured to slide along the grooves of the external nut.

11. The fastening arrangement according to claim 10 , wherein the ribs of the internal nut and the grooves of the external nut extend in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the bolt.

12. A method of fastening a first housing section to a second housing section of a portable working tool in which an internal nut, which at least in sections has an internal thread, is connected to a bolt, which at least in sections has external thread, in such a way the internal thread of the internal nut engages in the external thread of the bolt and the internal nut is connected to the external nut in such a way that the internal nut is held in the external nut in a displaceable manner, whereby during a rotational movement of the external nut the internal nut follows the rotational movement of the external nut and the internal nut performs an axial movement relative to the external nut along a longitudinal axis of the bolt, wherein the internal nut is configured to protrude from the external nut to provide a free end of the fastening arrangement in a direction of the longitudinal axis of the bolt.

13. A fastening arrangement for fastening a first housing section to a second housing section of a portable working tool, the fastening arrangement comprising:
a bolt, which at least in sections has an external thread,
an internal nut, which at least in sections has an internal thread, wherein the internal thread of the internal nut engages in the external thread of the bolt, an external nut, which is connected to the internal nut in such a way that the internal nut is held in the external nut in a displaceable manner, wherein, during a rotational movement of the external nut the internal nut follows the rotational movement of the external nut and the internal nut performs an axial movement relative to the external nut along a longitudinal axis of the bolt, wherein
the internal nut is provided with ribs on an outer circumferential surface of the internal nut and the external nut is provided with grooves on an inner circumferential surface of the external nut, the ribs of the internal nut being positioned within and configured to slide along the grooves of the external nut.

14. The fastening arrangement according to claim 13 , wherein the ribs of the internal nut and the grooves of the external nut extend in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the bolt.

Assignees

• Makita Corp

Inventors

• Stieler Eik

Classifications

• F16B33/00

  Features common to bolt and nut · CPC title

• B25F5/02 Primary

  Construction of casings, bodies or handles {(B25F5/006, B25F5/008 take precedence)} · CPC title

• B27B17/00

  Chain saws; Equipment therefor {(slotting or mortising machines equipped with chain cutters B27F5/06)} · CPC title

• Y10T29/49948

  Multipart cooperating fastener [e.g., bolt and nut] · CPC title

• F16B5/02 Primary

  by means of fastening members using screw-thread ({F16B5/0004 takes precedence}; construction of screw-threaded connections F16B25/00 - F16B39/00) · CPC title