Battery-Powered Hand-Held Machine Tool

Abstract

A battery-powered hand-held machine tool, particularly a hand-held circular saw, includes an electric motor for rotational driving a tool arranged on the hand-held machine tool, particularly a saw blade, a front handle and a rear handle each in terms of an advancing direction of the hand-held machine tool, and a receiving recess for receiving a replaceable battery. The rear handle is mounted such that it can pivot out, preferably upwards, about a pivot axis such that when the rear handle is in a state of being pivoted out, the receiving recess for receiving or removing the replaceable battery is exposed and, when the rear handle is in a state of being pivoted in, the reception or removal of the replaceable battery into or out of the receiving recess is blocked.

Claims

1.-17. (canceled)

18. A hand-held machine tool, comprising: an electric motor for rotationally driving a tool disposed on the hand-held machine tool; a front handle and a rear handle with respect to an advancing direction of the hand-held machine tool; and a receiving recess for receiving a replaceable battery; wherein the rear handle is pivotably mounted about a pivot axis such that the rear handle is pivotable out upwards, wherein when the rear handle is in a pivoted out state the receiving recess is released for insertion or removal of the replaceable battery and wherein when the rear handle is in a pivoted in state the insertion or the removal of the replaceable battery into or out of the receiving recess is blocked.

19. The hand-held machine tool according to claim 18, wherein the pivot axis is oriented parallel to a rotation axis of the tool and exclusively above a ground plane and/or along a parallel plane running parallel to the ground plane, wherein the ground plane is clamped by an underside of a floor plate which contacts a workpiece in an operating mode of a hand-held machine tool in a zero-degree position and set for a maximum cutting depth of the hand-held machine tool.

20. The hand-held machine tool according to claim 19, wherein the pivot axis exclusively extends in an inward-facing side of an axial plane facing the rear handle, wherein the axial plane is clamped by a rotation axis and a radius of the tool, wherein the axial plane, starting from a section of the ground plane lying in the advancing direction in front of the axis of rotation and in the direction of rotation of the tool, encloses an angle of at least 70 degrees and at most 90 degrees.

21. The hand-held machine tool according to claim 18, wherein the pivot axis extends exclusively in an area which is enclosed by a lateral surface of a cylinder coaxial with an axis of rotation of the tool, wherein the cylinder has a diameter which is at most 2.5 times as large as a maximum tool diameter of the hand-held machine tool.

22. The hand-held machine tool according to claim 18, wherein the pivot axis exclusively extends in an inward-facing side of a handle plane facing the front handle, wherein the handle plane is clamped by a rotation axis and a radius of the tool, wherein the handle plane, starting from a section of a ground plane lying in the advancing direction located behind the rotation axis and counter to a direction of rotation of the tool, encloses an angle of at least 20 degrees.

23. The hand-held machine tool according to claim 18, wherein the pivot axis extends through a handle support of the front handle and is supported by a cylindrical pin mounted in a pin receptacle.

24. The hand-held machine tool according to claim 18, wherein a pivot angle limited by a pivot stop and a counter stop between the pivoted in state and the pivoted out state of the rear handle, starting from a section of a ground plane located in the advancing direction behind an axis of rotation and counter to a direction of rotation of the tool, is greater than 20 and less than 60.

25. The hand-held machine tool according to claim 18 further comprising a latching mechanism, wherein the latching mechanism securely holds the rear handle in the pivoted out state until a user overcomes a spring-locking force.

26. The hand-held machine tool according to claim 18, wherein the rear handle has a locking mechanism, wherein the locking mechanism fixes the rear handle in the pivoted in state.

27. The hand-held machine tool according to claim 26, wherein below the receiving recess, a stabilizing rail is disposed which protrudes counter to the advancing direction beyond the receiving recess and on which the rear handle is fixable in the pivoted in state.

28. The hand-held machine tool according to claim 27, wherein the locking mechanism comprises a mechanical switching element which is engageable in a recess on the stabilizing rail when the rear handle is in the pivoted in state.

29. The hand-held machine tool according to claim 26, wherein a safety switch is connected to the rear handle and interrupts a power supply to the electric motor in an unlocked state of the locking mechanism and/or when the rear handle is in the pivoted out state.

30. The hand-held machine tool according to claim 18 further comprising a U-shaped profiled rail which receives a pivotal section of the rear handle in a form-fitting manner at least transversely to the pivot axis when the rear handle is in the pivoted in state.

31. The hand-held machine tool according to claim 18, wherein the receiving recess has a rail guide via which the replaceable battery is receivable into and removable from the receiving recess, wherein the rail guide and/or the replaceable battery is configured such that removing of the replaceable battery is possible only after actuation of a release element.

32. The hand-held machine tool according to claim 18, wherein a hand engagement surface of the rear handle, relative to the advancing direction of the hand-held machine tool, is provided behind the replaceable battery received in the receiving recess.

33. The hand-held machine tool according to claim 18, wherein the tool, relative to the advancing direction of the hand-held machine tool, is disposed to a left of the electric motor, wherein an output shaft of the electric motor runs parallel to an axis of rotation of the tool, and wherein the hand-held machine tool is at least twice as long as wide.

34. The hand-held machine tool according to claim 18, wherein the tool, relative to the advancing direction of the hand-held machine tool, is disposed to a right of the electric motor, wherein an output shaft of the electric motor runs parallel to an axis of rotation of the tool, and wherein the hand-held machine tool is at least twice as long as wide.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0028] FIG. 1 illustrates a preferred embodiment of a battery-powered hand-held circular saw as a hand-held machine tool according to the invention, in a side view;

[0029] FIG. 2 is a perspective illustration of the embodiment of FIG. 1;

[0030] FIG. 3 is a side view of the embodiment of FIG. 1 with pivoted-out rear handle;

[0031] FIG. 4 is a perspective illustration of the view of FIG. 3;

[0032] FIG. 5 is a further perspective view of the view of the embodiment of FIG. 3 with rear handle pivoted in; and

[0033] FIG. 6 illustrates the hand-held machine tool of FIG. 5 designed as a battery-powered hand-held circular saw with pivoted-out rear handle.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0034] A preferred embodiment of a hand-held machine tool designed as a battery-powered hand-held circular saw 100 is shown in FIG. 1. The battery-operated circular saw 100 has an electric motor 60 for rotationally driving a tool 90 arranged on the hand-held circular saw 100 as a saw blade. The saw blade 90 is rotationally driven about an axis of rotation R, which in the present case points into the plane of the drawing. In normal sawing operation, the saw blade 90 rotates in the direction of rotation D. In other words, the saw blade 90 rotates in such a way that the hand-held circular saw 100 is used in the sawing operation on a workpiece to be sawn (not shown).

[0035] During normal operation, the hand-held circular saw 100 is advanced in the advancing direction V. The advancing direction is shown in FIG. 1 with a horizontal arrow pointing to the right. The hand-held circular saw 100 has a front handle 20 and a rear handle 30. Relative to the advancing direction V of the hand-held circular saw 100, the front handle 20 is arranged in front of the rear handle 30.

[0036] Furthermore, the hand-held circular saw 100 has a receiving recess 50 for receiving a replaceable battery 200. In the exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIG. 1, the replaceable battery 200 for operating the electric motor 60 of the hand-held circular saw 100 is completely received in the receiving recess 50.

[0037] According to the invention, the rear handle 30 is pivotably mounted about a pivot axis S. In FIG. 1, the pivot axis S in the image plane. The rear handle 30 is pivotably mounted about the pivot axis S such that when the rear handle 30 is in a state of being pivoted out (see FIG. 3), the receiving recess 50 is released to receive or remove the replaceable battery 200. Furthermore, the rear handle 30 is pivotally mounted about the pivot axis S such that when the rear handle 30 is located in the state of being pivoted in EZ (see FIGS. 1 and 2), the receiving or removal of the replaceable battery 200 into or out of the receiving recess 50 is blocked.

[0038] As can be seen from a combination of FIG. 1 and FIG. 3, the rear handle 30 is pivotally mounted upward, i.e. the rear handle 30 is in the state of being pivoted out AZ (FIG. 3), relative to the vertical, higher than the rear handle 30 in the state of being pivoted in EZ (FIG. 1).

[0039] In a preferred embodiment of FIG. 1, the pivot axis S is parallel to the axis of rotation R of the saw blade 90. This can be seen particularly clearly in the perspective views of FIGS. 2 and 4.

[0040] The pivot axis S extends exclusively above a ground plane GE. The ground plane GE can also be configured as a base plate plane. The ground plane GE corresponds thereby to the base plate plane. In this case, the hand-held machine tool 100 designed as a hand-held circular saw has a floor plate 10. The floor plate may also be referred to as a base plate. This is the case particularly if the hand-held machine tool contains a base plate. However, it is also possible for the hand-held machine tool 100 not to include a floor plate 10 or ground plate. A ground plane GE designed as a ground plane is clamped by a floor plate 10 of the hand-held circular saw 100, which in working mode is touched by a workpiece underside 11 and is in a zero-degree position and which is set for maximum cutting depth. The ground plane GE clamped by the bottom 11 of the floor plate 10 is also illustrated in the perspective view of FIG. 2.

[0041] In FIG. 1, a parallel plane PE running parallel to the ground plane GE is shown. The rotational axis R of the saw blade 90 pointing into the plane of the drawing lies in this parallel plane PE. The pivot axis S oriented parallel to the rotation axis R extends exclusively above this parallel plane PE.

[0042] Also shown in FIG. 1 is an axial plane AE, which is clamped by the rotation axis R and by a radius RA of the saw blade 90. The axial plane AE encloses, starting from a section 12 of the base plate 10 located in the advancing direction V located in front of the axis of rotation R and in the direction of rotation D of the saw blade 90, an angle of 70. For reasons of clarity, a second axial plane AE is also shown in FIG. 1, which encloses an angle of 90. In both cases, the pivot axis S is exclusively contained an inward-facing side facing the rear handle 30 of the axial plane AE, AE.

[0043] Also shown in FIG. 1 is a section of a lateral surface MF of a cylinder Z defined coaxially to the axis of rotation R of the saw blade 90. In the illustrated embodiment, the cylinder Z has a diameter which is approximately twice as large as a maximum possible saw blade diameter DB of the saw blade 90 of the hand-held circular saw 100. In FIG. 1, the diameter DZ of the cylinder is referred to as DZ/2, since the segment is drawn only between the rotational axis R and lateral surface MF.

[0044] Also shown in FIG. 1 is a handle plane HE, which is spanned by the rotation axis R and a radius RA of the saw blade 90. The handle plane HE closes, starting from a section 13 of the floor plate 10 located in the advancing direction V behind the axis of rotation R and counter to the direction of rotation D of the saw blade 90, by way of example, an angle of 30. The pivot axis S extends exclusively in an inward-facing side of the handle plane HE facing a front handle 20.

[0045] The handle plane HE, the axial plane AE and the lateral surface MF define a pie-shaped area KR shown in the present embodiment, in which the pivot axis S, which is parallel to the axis of rotation R, runs exclusively.

[0046] As an already be discerned from FIG. 1, the pivot axis S extends through a handle carrier 25 of the front handle 20.

[0047] FIG. 2 shows now a perspective view of the hand-held machine tool 100 of FIG. 1, more precisely a view from the rear right with respect to the advancing direction V. The illustration of FIG. 2 shows that the saw blade 90 is arranged to the left of the electric motor 60. The already explained ground plane GE with reference to FIG. 1, which is spanned by the underside 11 of the floor plate 10 is drawn for reasons of clarity in the perspective view of FIG. 2.

[0048] As can also be easily discerned from FIG. 2, the pivot axis S extends parallel to the axis of rotation R.

[0049] With reference to FIG. 2, the attachment of the rear handle 30 to the hand-held machine tool 100 designed as a hand-held circular saw will now be explained in greater detail. In the present case, the pivot axis S extends through a handle carrier 25 of the front handle 20. On the handle support 25, the floor plate 10 is mounted, and as the electric motor 60 with its housing is attached. The rear handle 30 is pivotally supported by a cylindrical pin 70, which is coaxial with the pivot axis S, in a pin receptacle 71 of the handle support 25. For this purpose, a pivot section 32 of the rear handle 30 has a bore, not shown here, through which the cylinder pin 70 extends. FIG. 2 shows the rear handle 30 in the state of being pivoted in EZ, so that the receiving or removal of the replaceable battery 200 into or out of the receiving recess 50 is blocked.

[0050] FIG. 3 shows the embodiment of FIGS. 1 and 2, wherein in FIG. 3, the rear handle 30 is shown in its state of being pivoted out AZ. In the state of being pivoted out AZ, the receiving recess 50 is released for insertion or removal of the replaceable battery 200. In FIG. 3, the replaceable battery 200 is removed from the receiving recess.

[0051] With reference to FIG. 3, a pivot angle SW, which is defined between state of being pivoted in EZ and the state of being pivoted out AZ of the rear handle 30, will now be explained in greater detail.

[0052] In FIG. 3, a pivot stop 34 and a counter stop 36 are provided in the area of the pin receptacle 71 (see also FIG. 2), which limit the pivot angle SW. At a pivot angle of 0, the rear handle 30 is in the state of being pivoted in EZ, which can he discerned, for example, FIGS. 1 and 2.

[0053] In FIG. 3, the state of being pivoted in EZ is shown only by suggesting the pivot section 32. In the state of being pivoted in EZ of the pivot portion 32, which defines as the so-to-speak upwardly directed movement of the rear handle section 30, at an angle of about 20 to the horizontal. Starting from this state of being pivoted in EZ, the state of being pivoted out AZ is shown in FIG. 3 with a swivel angle of 30. Of course, a pivot angle can also be related directly to the ground plane GE (cf. FIG. 1). In this case, the rear handle 30 shown in FIG. 3 would be pivoted out by about 50 relative to the ground plane GE.

[0054] In the following, with reference to FIG. 3, specific safety features of the hand-held machine tool 100 designed as a hand-held circular saw will be explained. At the rear handle 30 of the hand-held machine tool 100, a locking mechanism 40 is formed, with which the rear handle 30 can be fixed in its state of being pivoted in EZ and, if necessary, released for a pivoting movement. On the locking mechanism 40, a mechanical switching element 45 is formed, which can engage in a corresponding recess 48. As can be discerned from FIG. 4, the recess 48 for the mechanical switching element 45 is formed on a stabilizing rail 59, which protrudes beyond the receiving recess 50 counter to the advancing direction V. In the state of being pivoted in EZ, the switching element 45 is received in the recess 48, which is shown in dashed lines in FIG. 5.

[0055] Shown again in FIG. 3 is a safety switch 65, which is connected to the rear handle 30 and arranged within the stabilizing rail 59 in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3. The safety switch 65 is designed to interrupt a power supply to the electric motor 60 in the unlocked state of the locking mechanism 40 and in the presence of the state of being pivoted out AZ. If the locking mechanism 40 is locked, or the rear handle 30 is pivoted in, as is the case in FIG. 5, the safety switch 65 signals that the electric motor 60 may be actuated.

[0056] As can likewise be discerned from FIG. 4, the hand-held machine tool 100 designed as a hand-held circular saw has a U-shaped profile rail 15. This rail is designed to receive the pivot section 32 of the rear handle 30. If the pivot section 32 is received in the profiled rail 15, that is to say in the state of being pivoted in EZ (cf., FIG. 5), the rear handle 30 is secured against undesired rotation transversely to the pivot axis S. As can be discerned from FIG. 4, the U-shaped profile rail 15 has a wedge-shaped configuration, by way of example with a wedge angle KW of approximately 20.

[0057] Below the U-shaped rail 15, a rail guide 55 is formed, via which the replaceable battery 200 can he received into the receiving recess 50 and removed from it. The rail guide 55 is designed such that a removal of the replaceable battery 200 is only possible after actuation of a release element 58 on the replaceable battery 200. Not visible in FIG. 4, a locking lug actuated by the release element 58 protrudes into a corresponding recess on the underside of the U-shaped profile rail 15.

[0058] The hand-held circular saw 100 further includes a not shown detent mechanism 39 which is designed to securely hold the rear handle 30 in the illustrated state of being pivoted out AZ until the spring-locking force is it overcomes by the user.

[0059] FIG. 5 shows a perspective view of the above-described hand-held machine tool 100 from the front right. The locking mechanism 40 is locked in the present case, that is, the switching element 45 is received in the recess 48.

[0060] Furthermore, it can be clearly identified in FIG. 5 that a hand engagement surface 31 of the rear handle 30, relative to the advancing direction V of the hand-held machine tool 100, is added behind the replaceable battery received in the receiving recess 50. Furthermore, it can be clearly identified in FIG. 5 that the tool 90 designed as a saw blade, with reference to the advancing direction V of the hand-held machine tool 100, is arranged to the left of the electric motor 60. Alternatively, the tool 90 designed as a saw blade, with reference to the advancing direction V of the hand-held machine tool 100, can also be arranged to the right of the electric motor 60.

[0061] A motor shaft 61 of the electric motor 60 indicated in FIG. 5 runs parallel to the axis of rotation R of the saw blade 90. A maximum length L of the hand-held machine tool 100 designed as a hand-held circular saw, relative to the advancing direction V, is at least twice as long as a maximum width B of the hand-held machine tool 100 designed as a hand-held circular saw, perpendicular to the advancing direction V.

[0062] Finally, FIG. 6 shows the hand-held machine tool 100 from the same perspective as in FIG. 5, with the rear handle 30 being shown in the state of being pivoted out AZ for better clarification of the U-shaped profiling of the profile rail 15.

LIST OF REFERENCE SYMBOLS

[0063] 10 Floor plate

[0064] 11 Underside of the floor plate

[0065] 12 Leading section

[0066] 13 Trailing section

[0067] 15 Profile rail

[0068] 20 Front handle

[0069] 25 Handle carrier of the front handle

[0070] 30 Rear handle

[0071] 31 Hand engagement surface

[0072] 32, 37 Pivot section

[0073] 34 Pivot stop

[0074] 36 Counterstop

[0075] 39 Detent mechanism

[0076] 40 Locking mechanism

[0077] 45 Mechanical switching element

[0078] 48 Recess

[0079] 50 Receiving recess

[0080] 55 Rail guide

[0081] 58 Release element

[0082] 59 Stabilizing rail

[0083] 60 Electric motor

[0084] 61 Motor shaft

[0085] 65 Safety switch

[0086] 70 Cylinder pin

[0087] 71 Pin receptacle

[0088] 90 Tool

[0089] 100 Hand-held machine tool

[0090] 200 Replaceable battery

[0091] AE, AE Axial plane

[0092] B Maximum width of the hand-held machine tool

[0093] DB Maximum tool diameter

[0094] DZ Cylinder diameter

[0095] GE Ground plane

[0096] KR Pie-shaped area

[0097] L Maximum length of the hand-held machine tool

[0098] MF Lateral surface

[0099] PE Parallel plane

[0100] D, D Direction of rotation

[0101] R Axis of rotation

[0102] S Pivot axis

[0103] SW Pivot angle

[0104] V Advancing direction

[0105] Z Cylinders