Power tool
AssigneeAtlas Copco Industrial Technique AB
InventorsKarl Johan Lars Elsmark, Andris Danebergs
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Abstract
A power tool including: a motor; a shaft for delivering a torque to a joint or the like, the shaft being drivingly connected to the motor; and a housing that at least partly houses the motor and the shaft. The shaft includes a longitudinal cavity in which a torque transducer is arranged to measure a torque acting over a portion of the shaft, wherein the longitudinal cavity includes: a first contact surface for torque transferring contact with a first end portion of the torque transducer; and a second contact surface, separated from the first contact surface, for torque transferring contact with a second end portion of the torque transducer, the portion over which the torque is measured being located between the first and second contact surfaces.
Claims13
A power tool comprising:
- a motor;
- a gear;
- a shaft for delivering a torque, the shaft being drivingly connected to the motor via the gear;
- and
- a housing that at least partly houses the motor, the gear, and the shaft,
- wherein the shaft comprises a longitudinal cavity in which a torque transducer is arranged to measure a torque acting over a portion of the shaft,
- wherein the longitudinal cavity comprises:
- a first contact surface for torque transferring contact with a first end portion of the torque transducer;
- and
- a second contact surface, separated from the first contact surface, for torque transferring contact with a second end portion of the torque transducer,
- wherein the portion over which the torque is measured is located between the first and second contact surfaces, and
- wherein the torque transducer is arranged inside an interior of the longitudinal cavity of the shaft, and comprises:
- at least one torque measuring element;
- the first end portion, which is in torque transferring contact with the first contact surface in the interior of the longitudinal cavity of the shaft;
- the second end portion, which is in torque transferring contact with the second contact surface in the interior of the longitudinal cavity of the shaft;
- a torsionally resilient portion provided between the first and second end portions and over which the torque is measured by the at least one torque measuring element;
- and
- a circuit board arranged inside a hollow portion of the torque transducer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.