Screwdriver Tool with a Gear Ratio

Abstract

A screwdriver tool including a gear ratio arranged in a handle for multiplying a rotation angle transmitted from the hand to a blade protruding from the handle. A blocking element can be rotated from a release position, in which a first handle section can be rotated relative to a second handle section for the purpose of quick-action screwing, into a blocking position, in which a blocking element secures the blade to the handle in a rotationally fixed manner. The switching between the release position and the blocking position occurs by means of a push-button arranged in the tip of the handle, which is moved back into its starting position in a spring-loaded manner after being actuated.

Claims

1-16. (canceled)

17. A screwdriver tool with a transmission gearing, which is arranged in a handle and serves for multiplying a rotation angle transmitted from the handle to a blade protruding from the handle or to a chuck for receiving a blade, and with a blocking element, which can be moved from a release position into a blocking position by means of a pushbutton that can be axially displaced from a starting position, wherein said blocking element secures the blade or the chuck to the handle in a rotationally fixed manner in the blocking position and can be displaced between the blocking position and the release position in the direction of an axis that extends in the extending direction of the handle or the blade, wherein the pushbutton, which can be displaced against a restoring force of a pushbutton spring, displaces upon a first actuation the blocking element into its blocking position with a switching element that can be axially displaced from a starting position, wherein holding means are provided and hold the switching element in the position, in which it is displaced from the starting position, while holding the blocking element in the blocking position, and wherein the holding means are released from their holding position by means of a second actuation of the pushbutton.

18. The screwdriver tool according to claim 17, wherein the pushbutton displaces the blocking element back and forth between the blocking position and the release position due to a respective axial displacement of itself against an elastic restoring force.

19. The screwdriver tool according to claim 17, characterized by a transmission gearing that comprises first and second toothed wheels and is arranged in the handle, wherein the blocking element, which is assigned to the first handle section in a rotationally fixed manner, has a toothing that includes at least one tooth or tooth space and in the blocking position engages with a mating toothing, which includes at least one tooth space or tooth and is assigned to a second handle section that is rotatable relative to the first handle section or to a web of the transmission gearing in a rotationally fixed manner, wherein a ring body, which forms the mating toothing, supports the axles of the second toothed wheels, particularly the planetary wheels.

20. The screwdriver tool according to claim 17, wherein the reduction gearing is an epicyclic gearing.

21. The screwdriver tool according to claim 20, wherein a large-diameter first toothed wheel, particularly a sun wheel, is connected to a first handle section in a rotationally fixed manner.

22. The screwdriver tool according to claim 20, wherein a small-diameter third toothed wheel or sun wheel is connected to the blade in a rotationally fixed manner.

23. The screwdriver tool according to claim 20, wherein one or more second toothed wheels or planetary wheels have a small-diameter toothing, which meshes with the first toothed wheel or a large sun wheel, and a large-diameter toothing, which meshes with the third toothed wheel or small sun wheel.

24. The screwdriver tool according to claim 23, wherein a web, which carries the axles of the second toothed wheels or the planetary wheels, is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to a second handle section that is rotatable relative to the first handle section.

25. The screwdriver tool according to claim 17, wherein the blade or the chuck rotates upon a counterclockwise rotation and upon a clockwise rotation of the handle section, during which the second handle section is held firmly, in the same rotating direction with at least double, three-times or at least four-times the rotational speed of the first handle section.

26. The screwdriver tool according to claim 17, wherein the second handle section supports the chuck receiving the blade, wherein said chuck and particularly also the two handle sections consist of an electrically insulating material.

27. The screwdriver tool according to claim 20, wherein a web, which is formed by a plate and carries multiple planetary wheels, is connected to an extension of the second handle section, which protrudes into a cavity of the first handle section, by means of pins.

28. The screwdriver tool according to claim 21, wherein a coupling section, which is connected to the large-diameter sun wheel in a rotationally fixed manner and/or realized polygonally, engages into a fittingly shaped cavity of the first handle section.

29. The screwdriver tool according to claim 17, wherein the blocking element spring, which displaces the blocking element back into the release position, displaces the switching element back into the starting position.

30. The screwdriver tool according to claim 17, wherein a switch toothing of the pushbutton has oblique flanks, which interact with flanks or oblique flanks of a mating switch toothing of the switching element in order to exert a torque upon the switching element during the axial displacement of the switching element between the starting position and the displaced position, wherein the switching element has ribs that are guided in a guide groove and form holding projections, which engage underneath holding shoulders in an end phase of the displacement of the switching element after a rotation of the switching element, and wherein the switch toothing exerts upon a second actuation of the pushbutton a torque upon the switching element due to the oblique flank contact with the mating switch toothing such that the switching element is after an axial displacement additionally rotated in such a way that the ribs enter the guide grooves.

31. The screwdriver tool with a transmission gearing, which comprises first and second toothed wheels, is arranged in a handle and serves for multiplying a rotation angle transmitted from the handle to a blade protruding from the handle or to a chuck for receiving a blade, and with a blocking element, which can be moved from a release position into a blocking position and in the blocking position secures the blade or the chuck to the handle in a rotationally fixed manner, wherein the blocking element, which is assigned to the first handle section in a rotationally fixed manner, has a toothing that includes at least one tooth or tooth space and in the blocking position engages with a mating toothing, which includes at least one tooth space or tooth and is assigned to a second handle section that is rotatable relative to the first handle section or to a web of the transmission gearing in a rotationally fixed manner, and wherein a ring body, which forms the mating toothing, supports the axles of the second toothed wheels, particularly the planetary wheels, wherein the blocking element can be displaced into the blocking position by means of a pushbutton, which is arranged in a face side opening of the first handle section, against the restoring force of a blocking element spring that acts upon the blocking element in the direction of its release position.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0007] An exemplary embodiment of the invention is described below with reference to the attached drawings. In these drawings:

[0008] FIG. 1 shows the view of an exemplary embodiment of the invention,

[0009] FIG. 2 shows the section along the line II-II in FIG. 1,

[0010] FIG. 3 shows the section along the line III-III in FIG. 2,

[0011] FIG. 4 shows a handle, which is sectioned along the sectional plane according to FIG. 2 and in which a toothing 15 of a blocking element 5 is not engaged with a mating toothing 16 of a ring body 17,

[0012] FIG. 5 shows a second perspective section, in which the toothing 15 is engaged with the mating toothing 16,

[0013] FIG. 6 shows a first exploded view of the essential gearing elements,

[0014] FIG. 7 shows the enlarged detail VII in FIG. 6,

[0015] FIG. 8 shows a second a perspective view, and

[0016] FIG. 9 shows the enlarged detail IX in FIG. 8.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0017] The screwdriver tool described in the exemplary embodiments has a handle 1 that consists of a first handle section 6 and a second handle section 7. The first handle section 6 consists of two handle section components 6′, 6″, which are connected to one another such that a separation joint 41 is formed. The separation joint 41 extends in the region of the handle section 6 with the largest diameter and surrounds a cavity.

[0018] The first handle section 6 forms a rounded face side with a face side opening 34, in which a crank piece 28 is inserted. A thrust piece 8, which can be displaced axially referred to an axis A, is located in the crank piece 28, wherein spring arms originate from said trust piece and have on their end hooks 31 that engage behind steps 32 of the crank piece 28.

[0019] A pushbutton spring 22 is supported on a base 33 of the crank piece 28 and acts upon the pushbutton 8 in the axial direction extending away from the crank piece 28 in the form of a pressure spring. Studs 39 for mounting the crank piece 28 on the first handle section 6 in a rotationally fixed manner may protrude from the underside of the crank piece 28 that lies opposite of the base 33.

[0020] The underside of the pushbutton 8 carries a switch toothing 29 that forms oblique flanks. This switch toothing 29 interacts with a mating switch toothing 30 of the switching element 23. The switching element 23 is an essentially cylindrical body that is guided in a base opening of the crank piece 28. Ribs 24′ protrude from a cylinder surface wall of the switching element 23 in uniform circumferential distribution and form obliquely extending holding projections 24.

[0021] Holding shoulders 25 are located in the base 33 angularly offset to the guide grooves 27 and interact with the holding projections 24.

[0022] This pushbutton arrangement functions as follows: starting from an operating position, in which the mating switch toothing 30 abuts on the switch toothing 29, the switching element 23 can be displaced through the opening in the base 33 by means of a linear displacement of the pushbutton 8, wherein the ribs 24′ are guided in the guide grooves 27. The oblique flanks of the switch toothing 29 and the mating switch toothing 30 are angularly offset relative to one another in such a way that a torque is exerted upon the switching element 23, wherein said torque causes the switching element 23 to carry out a rotation when the ribs 24′ exit the guide grooves 27. As soon as the ribs 24′ have exited the guide grooves 27, the switching element 23 rotates relative to the crank piece 28 and the pushbutton 8 such that the angular offset between the switch toothing 29 and the mating switch toothing 30 is canceled. After an axial return displacement of the pushbutton 8, the holding projections 24 move underneath the holding shoulders 25 such that the switching element is secured in a displaced position after the first actuation. Since the holding projections 24 and the holding shoulders 25 extend obliquely, the switching element 23 continues to rotate slightly during the return displacement.

[0023] Once the pushbutton 8 is released, it axially moves back into the starting position due to the force of the relaxing pushbutton spring 22, wherein the switch toothing 29 moves away from the mating switch toothing 30.

[0024] During a second actuation, the oblique flanks of the switch toothing 29 engage into the oblique flanks of the mating switch toothing 30 in such a way that a torque is once again exerted upon the switching element 23 in the same direction. The switch toothing 29 and the mating switch toothing 30 are also angularly offset relative to one another in this case. As a result, the switching element 23 can after a slight axial displacement continue to rotate into a position, in which the ribs 24′ are aligned with the guide grooves 27, such that the switching element 23 can be once again displaced back into the starting position.

[0025] A blocking element 5, which is likewise arranged in the face side opening 34, is displaced in the direction of the axis A concomitant with the displacement of the switching element 23. The blocking element 5 is assigned to the first handle section 6 in a rotationally fixed manner and has a broad side toothing 15 consisting of multiple teeth. A blocking element spring 26 is provided and acts upon the blocking element 5 in the direction of the switching element 23 such that the blocking element spring 26 can generate the force required for moving the switching element from a displaced position back into the starting position in the above-described manner.

[0026] A transmission gearing 2 is located within the first handle section 6 and realized in the form of an epicyclic gearing in the exemplary embodiment. A web 14 and a ring body 17 form a cage that supports the axles 40 of multiple planetary wheels, namely three planetary wheels in the exemplary embodiment. Teeth protruding from the ring body 17 in the direction of the blocking element 5 form a mating toothing 16. The toothing 15 can be engaged with the mating toothing 16. The ring body 17, which is otherwise rotatable relative to the first handle section 6, is then secured on the first handle section 6.

[0027] The epicyclic gearing 2 has a large-diameter sun wheel 9, which is connected to the first handle section in a rotationally fixed manner by means of a polygonal section that forms a coupling section 20. To this end, the coupling section 20 is inserted into a fittingly shaped cavity 21 of the first handle section. The blocking element spring 26 can be supported on a face of the coupling section 20.

[0028] The planetary wheels 11 have small-diameter toothings 12 that mesh with the large-diameter sun wheel 9. The small-diameter toothings 12 are connected in a rotationally fixed manner to large-diameter toothings 13, which in turn mesh with a second small-diameter sun wheel 10. The large-diameter sun wheel 9 forms a driving wheel, which due to the planetary wheels 11 has a transmission ratio of 4:1 referred to the driven wheel formed by the small-diameter sun wheel.

[0029] The second handle section 7, which is rotatably assigned to the first handle section, has an extension 19 that protrudes into a cavity of the first handle section. In this case, the extension 19 can only extend into the handle section region 6″ arranged between a handle section region 6′ and the second handle section 7. It is secured at this location in an axially fixed yet rotatable manner by means of hooks 35. The extension 19 is connected to the cage carrying the planetary wheels 11 in a rotationally fixed manner. It is particularly connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the web 14 formed by a plate. To this end, pins 18 engage into the face side openings of the extension 19. However, extensions of the axles 40 may also engage into the openings instead of the pins 18.

[0030] A chuck 4 is located within the extension 19 and likewise secured within the second handle section 7 with the aid of locking means. A blade 3 can be inserted into the chuck 4. A driven axle 36, which is connected to the small-diameter sun wheel 10 in a rotationally fixed manner or forms the small-diameter sun wheel, forms a torque transmission section 37 that is inserted into a torque transmission opening of the chuck 4 and thereby able to transmit a torque to the chuck 4. A round section 38 of the driven axle 36 respectively penetrates the coupling section 20 and the large-diameter sun wheel 9 such that the large-diameter sun wheel 9 can rotate freely relative to the driven axle 36. The driven axle 36 furthermore supports the blocking element spring 26 and penetrates a central opening of the blocking element 5, wherein the driven axle protrudes as far as into a central opening of the switching element 23. An axial displaceability of the chuck 4 and the driven axle 36 connected thereto is not provided.

[0031] The screwdriver tool functions as follows: an angular velocity transmittable from the handle to the blade 3 in both rotating directions is in the release position, in which the toothing 15 of the blocking element 5 does not engage into the mating toothing 16, increased by the factor 4 when the first handle section 6 is rotated and the second handle section 7 is held firmly. The screwdriver tool can be used on live components because the steel core of the blade is with the exception of the working tip completely encased in an electrically insulating material and the chuck and the handle sections consist of an electrically insulating material. In the release position of the blocking element, the screwdriver tool assumes a quick-action screwing position, in which the screws can be screwed into a thread with high rotational speed. The screwdriver tool reaches a power screwing position once the blocking element 5 is displaced from the release position into the blocking position, in which the toothing 15 engages into the mating toothing 16. The switchover between the quick-action screwing position and the power screwing position is realized by means of a one-time actuation the pushbutton 8. In the power screwing position, the planetary wheel arrangement, i.e. the ring body 17 or the web 14, respectively is indirectly connected to the first handle section 6 in a rotationally fixed manner. As a result, the second handle section 7 is also connected to the first handle section 6 in a rotationally fixed manner. The screwdriver tool can be actuated like a conventional screwdriver in the blocking position. The torques can be transmitted to the blade 3 by means of the first handle section 6, as well as by means of the second handle section 7.

[0032] The preceding explanations serve for elucidating all inventions that are included in this application and respectively enhance the prior art independently with at least the following combinations of characteristics, wherein two, multiple or all of these combinations of characteristics may also be combined with one another, namely:

[0033] A screwdriver tool, which is characterized in that the locking means is a blocking element 5, which can be moved from a release position into a blocking position and in the blocking position secures the blade 3 or the chuck 4 to the handle 1 in a rotationally fixed manner.

[0034] A screwdriver tool, which is characterized in that the blocking element 5 can be displaced between the blocking position and the release position in the direction of an axis A, which extends in the extending direction of the handle 1 or the blade 3, and/or is displaceably arranged in a first handle section 6 that faces away from the blade 3 and/or can be displaced by an axially displaceable pushbutton 8, wherein it is particularly proposed that the pushbutton 8 displaces the blocking element 5 back and forth between the blocking position and the release position due to a respective axial displacement of itself against an elastic restoring force.

[0035] A screwdriver tool, which is characterized in that the reduction gearing is an epicyclic gearing 2, wherein it is particularly proposed that a large-diameter first toothed wheel, particularly a sun wheel 9, is connected to a first handle section 6 in a rotationally fixed manner and/or that a small-diameter third toothed wheel, particularly a sun wheel 10, is connected to the blade 3 in a rotationally fixed manner and/or that one or more second toothed wheels, particularly planetary wheels 11, have a small-diameter toothing 12, which meshes with the first toothed wheel, particularly the large sun wheel 9, and a large-diameter toothing 13, which meshes with the third toothed wheel, particularly the small sun wheel 10, and wherein it is particularly proposed that a web 14 carrying the axles 40 of the second toothed wheels, particularly the planetary wheels 11, is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to a second handle section 7, which is rotatable relative to the first handle section 6.

[0036] A screwdriver tool, which is characterized in that the blade 3 or the chuck 4 rotates upon a counterclockwise rotation and upon a clockwise rotation of the handle section 6, during which the second handle section 7 is held firmly, in the same rotating direction with at least double, preferably three-times and particularly about four-times, the rotational speed of the first handle section 6.

[0037] A screwdriver tool, which is characterized in that the blocking element 5, which is assigned to the first handle section 6 in a rotationally fixed manner, has a toothing 15 that comprises at least one tooth or one tooth space and in the blocking position engages with a mating toothing 16, which comprises at least one tooth space or one tooth and is assigned to a second handle section 7 that is rotatable relative to the first handle section 6 or to the web 14 of the reduction gearing 2 in a rotationally fixed manner, and wherein it is particularly proposed that a ring body 17, which forms the mating toothing 16, supports the axles of the second toothed wheels, particularly the planetary wheels 11.

[0038] A screwdriver tool, which is characterized in that the second handle section 7 supports the chuck receiving the blade 3, wherein said chuck and particularly also the two handle sections 6, 7 consist of an electrically insulating material, and/or in that the web 14, which is formed by a plate and carries multiple planetary wheels 11, is connected to an extension 19 of the second handle section 7, which protrudes into a cavity of the first handle section 6, by means of pins 18 and/or in that a coupling section 20, which is connected to the large-diameter sun wheel 9 in a rotationally fixed manner and particularly realized polygonally, engages into a fittingly shaped cavity 21 of the first handle section 6.

[0039] A screwdriver tool, which is characterized in that a pushbutton 8, which can be displaced against a restoring force of a pushbutton spring 22, displaces upon a first actuation the blocking element 5, which is acted upon by a spring from the blocking position in the direction of a release position, into its blocking position with a switching element 23 that can be axially displaced from a starting position, wherein holding means 24, 25 are provided and hold the switching element 23 in the position, in which it is displaced from the starting position, while holding the blocking element 5 in the blocking position.

[0040] A screwdriver tool, which is characterized in that the holding means 24, 25 are released from their holding position by means of a second actuation of the pushbutton 8 such that a blocking element spring 26, which displaces the blocking element 5 back into the release position, displaces the switching element 23 back into the starting position.

[0041] A screwdriver tool, which is characterized in that a switch toothing 29 of the pushbutton 8 has oblique flanks, which interact with flanks, particularly oblique flanks, of a mating switch toothing of the switching element 23 in order to exert a torque upon the switching element 23 during the axial displacement of the switching element 23 between the starting position and the displaced position, wherein the switching element 23 has ribs 24′ that are guided in a guide groove 27 and form holding projections 24, which engage underneath holding shoulders 25 in an end phase of the displacement of the switching element 23 after a rotation of the switching element 23, and wherein the switch toothing 29 exerts upon a second actuation of the pushbutton 8 a torque upon the switching element 23 due to the oblique flank contact with the mating switch toothing 30 such that the switching element is after an axial displacement additionally rotated in such a way that the ribs 24′ enter the guide grooves 27.

[0042] All disclosed characteristics are essential to the invention (individually, but also in combination with one another). The disclosure of the associated/attached priority documents (copy of the priority application) is hereby fully incorporated into the disclosure content of this application, namely also for the purpose of integrating characteristics of these documents into claims of the present application. The characteristics of the dependent claims also characterize independent inventive enhancements of the prior art without the characteristics of a claim to which they refer, particularly for submitting divisional applications on the basis of these claims. The invention specified in each claim may additionally comprise one or more of the characteristics that were disclosed in the preceding description and, in particular, are identified by reference symbols and/or included in the list of reference symbols. The invention also concerns design variations, in which individual characteristics cited in the preceding description are not realized, particularly as far as they are obviously dispensable for the respective intended use or can be replaced with other, identically acting technical means.