US 11,541,497 B2Granted

Combined electric tool coordination system and method

AssigneeSuzhou Cleva Electric Appliance Co., Ltd.

InventorFufei Wu

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Abstract

A combined electric tool coordination system includes a main tool (4) and an auxiliary tool (1). The main tool (4) and the auxiliary tool (1) coordinate for working. A load detection module (E1) is used to detect a load parameter that is generated when the main tool (4) operates, and send the load parameter to a central control module (E2). The central control module (E2) adjusts output power of the auxiliary tool (1). The central control module (E2) controls power of the auxiliary tool (1) to increase as the load parameter of the main tool (4) increases and decrease as the load parameter decreases. An automatic adjustment function of the auxiliary tool (1) is applied to a dust collector (1). When power of the main tool (4) increases, more dust and scraps are generated, suction of the dust collector (1) is automatically adjusted to be higher, and the demand of a large quantity of dust is satisfied; and when the power of the main tool (4) decreases, less dust and scraps are generated, power of the dust collector (1) automatically decreases, the suction is reduced, and the demand of a small quantity of dust is satisfied.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A combined electric tool coordination system comprising:

one main tool and an auxiliary tool, the main tool and the auxiliary tool operating in coordination, the main tool being an electric tool capable of producing scraps during operation, the auxiliary tool being a vacuum cleaner for vacuuming the scraps produced by the electric tool;
a central control module used to receive load parameters generated by the main tool and the auxiliary tool when operating, and to adjust an output power and a suction of the auxiliary tool;
a load parameter detection module detecting at least one load parameter generated by the main tool and the auxiliary tool when operating, and sending the at least one load parameter detected by the load parameter detection module to the central control module;
wherein, during operation of the main tool, the central control module increases the output power of the auxiliary tool and increases the suction of the auxiliary tool if the at least one load parameter of the main tool received by the central control module increases;
wherein, during operation of the main tool, the central control module decreases the output power of the auxiliary tool and decreases the suction of the auxiliary tool if the at least one load parameter of the main tool received by the central control module decreases;
and
wherein the central control module performs the following steps before adjusting the output power of the auxiliary tool:
judging whether a total of the load parameters of the main tool and the load parameters of the auxiliary tool is greater than a predetermined threshold;
and
when the total is greater than or equal to the predetermined threshold selectively reducing the output power to the auxiliary tool;
and
when the total is less than the predetermined threshold performing the following steps:
increasing via the central control module the output power of the auxiliary tool when the load parameters of the main tool increase;
and
decreasing via the central control module the output power of the auxiliary when the load parameters of the main tool decrease.

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A combined electric tool coordination method using a main tool and an auxiliary tool, the main tool and the auxiliary tool operating in coordination, the main tool being an electric tool capable of producing scraps during operation, the auxiliary tool being a vacuum cleaner for vacuuming the scraps produced by the electric tool, a load parameter detection module which detects load parameters generated by the main tool and the auxiliary tool when operating, and which sends the load parameters detected to a central control module, the method comprising the following steps:

starting the main tool and the auxiliary tool;
operating the main tool and the auxiliary tool after the starting step;
detecting via the load parameter detection module the load parameters of the main tool and the auxiliary tool during the operating step;
sending the load parameters to the central control module during the operating step;
increasing via the central control module an output power of the auxiliary tool and increasing a suction of the auxiliary tool when the load parameters of the main tool increase during the operating step;
decreasing via the central control module the output power of the auxiliary tool and decreasing the suction of the auxiliary tool when the load parameters of the main tool decrease during the operating step;
and
wherein the central control module performs the following steps before adjusting the output power of the auxiliary tool:
judging whether a total of the load parameters of the main tool and the load parameters of the auxiliary tool is greater than a predetermined threshold;
and
when the total is greater than or equal to the predetermined threshold selectively reducing the output power to the auxiliary tool;
and
when the total is less than the predetermined threshold performing the following steps:
increasing via the central control module the output power of the auxiliary tool when the load parameters of the main tool increase;
and
decreasing via the central control module the output power of the auxiliary when the load parameters of the main tool decrease.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/531,097Filed 18 Nov 2015
Priority: CN 201410699819.128 Nov 2014
Published: US 2019/0030669 A131 Jan 2019
Granted: 3 Jan 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

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