Tool with counter device
AssigneeFiskars Finland Oy Ab
InventorsMikko Heine, Niko Rusanen, Mika Sokka
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Abstract
A tool includes a tool head with a utilization surface. The tool also includes a counter device responding to an impact applied to the utilization surface. The counter device has a memory, a microcontroller controlling operation of the counter device, an indicator, and an energizer connected to the microcontroller, which in response to the impact applied to the utilization surface, produces an electric current energizing the counter device to make a modification in the memory and provide information about the cumulative count of impacts in the memory via the indicator to a user.
Claims19
A tool being a hammer, axe, or shovel, comprising a tool head with more than one utilization surface,
- wherein the tool further comprises a counter device responding to an impact applied to each of the utilization surfaces, wherein the counter device comprises:
- a memory,
- a microcontroller controlling operation of the counter device,
- an indicator,
- an energizer connected to the microcontroller, which in response to the impact applied to each of the utilization surfaces, produces an electric current energizing the counter device to make a modification in the memory and provide information about the cumulative count of impacts in the memory via the indicator to a user;
- wherein the counter device is sealed inside an at least partially hollow handle of the tool in such a way that the energizer is located between the tool head and the middle of the handle.
A tool being a hammer, axe, or shovel, comprising:
- a tool head with more than one utilization surface;
- an at least partially hollow handle coupled to the tool head;
- a counter device responding to an impact applied to each of the utilization surfaces and compressed within the at least partially hollow handle for rigid attachment, wherein the counter device comprises:
- a memory,
- a microcontroller controlling operation of the counter device,
- an indicator, and
- an energizer connected to the microcontroller, which in response to the impact applied to each of the utilization surfaces, produces an electric current energizing the counter device to make a modification in the memory and provide information about the cumulative count of impacts in the memory via the indicator to a user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.