Patent · US Expired

Drilling and/or percussion power tool

US6116352A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 4, 1999
Grant dateSep 12, 2000
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Expiry dateMar 4, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB25D2250/035
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A drilling and a percussion power tool and the tool holder, a housing, an air cushion percussion mechanism arranged in the housing and including a guiding tube, a piston reciprocating in the guiding tool, a striker reciprocating in the guiding tube, an air cushion chamber formed on the guiding tube between the striker and the piston, at least one control opening ventilating the air cushion chamber in an idling position of the percussion mechanism, a control part which in a percussion operation closes the at least one control opening for forming an air cushion in the air cushion chamber, and at least one additional opening formed in the guiding tube for ventilating of the air cushion chamber and arranged forwardly of the at least one control opening at a side of a tool so that in the percussion operation the at least one additional opening is covered by the striker.

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