Handheld pressing device
AssigneeNovopress GmbH Pressen und Presswerkzeuge & Co. KG
InventorsMartin Bungter, Jörg Hanisch, Günther Odenthal
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Abstract
A handheld pressing device for connecting two work pieces, in particular a pipe and a press fitting by means of a pressing process, has a pressing tool with multiple pressing jaws. The pressing tool is connected to a converter driven by an electric motor. The electric motor and the converter are partly surrounded by a housing. The pressing device has at least one data detecting element, at least one data detecting element being a camera. Furthermore, the camera is used as a data detecting element for documenting pressing processes in a method.
Claims35
A handheld pressing device for joining two work pieces by pressing, comprising:
- a pressing tool with a plurality of pressing jaws;
- a converting device connected to the pressing tool and driven by an electric motor;
- at least one data capturing element comprising a camera, the camera oriented such that the camera captures the pressing tool and a gap between the plurality of pressing jaws;
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- an external evaluation device connected to the at least one data capturing element and configured to evaluate a quality of a pressing procedure based at least partly on the gap between the plurality of pressing jaws;
- wherein the electric motor and the converting device are at least partially enclosed by a housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.