Stack arrangement and transport container having bus interfaces
AssigneeFestool GmbH
InventorBernd Fleischmann
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Abstract
A stack arrangement having at least two stack elements, which can be stacked on each other in a stacking direction, of which at least one is formed from a transport container which has a container body having a storage receptacle which has a machine receptacle for an electrical or pneumatic hand tool machine. The stacking elements have bus interfaces for transferring data and/or energy between the stacking elements of the stack arrangement, wherein the bus interfaces form a bus connection between the stack elements when the stack elements are stacked on each other.
Claims17
A stack arrangement having at least two stack elements, which can be stacked on top of one another in a stacking direction, of which at least one is represented by a transport container having a container body and a storage receptacle with a machine receptacle for an electric or pneumatic hand-operated power tool, wherein the stack elements have bus interfaces for transmitting data and/or energy between the stack elements of the stack arrangement, wherein the bus interfaces form a bus connection in a side wall section of the container body and communicate between the stack elements when the stack elements are stacked on top of one another or in the stacked state of the stack elements;
- and the bus connection having a feed-in interface and configuring to connect to an external computer, wherein at least one stack element of the stack arrangement has mutually connected bus interfaces, provided for communication with a stack element placed below or above, so that the stack element located in the stack arrangement establishes the bus connection between the upper and the lower stack elements, and wherein the bus interface of the transport container is connected to a machine interface for the connection of a service interface of the hand-operated power tool, and wherein the machine receptacle is provided in a container insert, which is supported on a base of the storage receptacle and is securable against a movement along the base using fastening means, and is supported on at least one circumferential side wall laterally bounding the storage receptacle, wherein connecting means which are connected to the bus interface when the container insert is placed in the storage receptacle are provided on the container insert for establishing the connection between the machine interface and the service interface of the hand-operated power tool.
A stack arrangement comprising:
- a lower stack element having a bus interface disposed on a top side of the lower stack element;
- an upper stack element stacked on top of the lower stack element in a stacking direction and having a bus interface on an underside of the upper stack element, the bus interface of the upper stack element making electrical contact with the bus interface of the lower stack element to form a bus connection in a side wall section of the container body for transmitting data and/or energy between the upper and lower stack elements;
- and the bus connection having a feed-in interface and configuring to connect to an external computer, wherein at least one of the lower stack element and the upper stack element is a transport container, the transport container comprising:
- a container body defining a storage receptacle;
- a removable container insert supported within the storage receptacle, the container insert defining a machine receptacle and having an insert interface and a machine interface, the insert interface being releasably electrically connected to the bus interface of the transport container and the machine interface being electrically connected to the insert interface;
- and an electric or pneumatic hand-operated power tool received within the machine receptacle of the container insert, the hand-operated tool having a service interface for communication with the machine interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.