Power tool
AssigneeMakita Corporation
InventorTakeshi Kamiya
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Abstract
To reduce size increase, a power tool includes a motor, an output shaft located frontward from the motor, rotatable by the motor, and having an insertion hole extending rearward from a front end of the output shaft, a bearing supporting the output shaft in a rotatable manner, a locking member supported by the output shaft and movable to a locking position for locking a tip tool placed in the insertion hole and to an unlocking position for unlocking the tip tool, a bit sleeve surrounding the output shaft, and movable to a movement-restricting position for restricting radially outward movement of the locking member and to a movement-permitting position for permitting radially outward movement of the locking member, and an operable member operable to move the bit sleeve and at least partly overlapping the bearing in an axial direction.
Claims16
A power tool, comprising:
- a motor;
- an output shaft located frontward from the motor and rotatable by the motor, the output shaft having an insertion hole extending rearward from a front end of the output shaft;
- a bearing supporting the output shaft in a rotatable manner;
- a locking member supported by the output shaft and movable to a locking position for locking a tip tool placed in the insertion hole and to an unlocking position for unlocking the tip tool;
- a bit sleeve surrounding the output shaft, the bit sleeve being movable to a movement-restricting position for restricting radially outward movement of the locking member and to a movement-permitting position for permitting radially outward movement of the locking member;
- an operable member operable to move the bit sleeve, the operable member at least partly overlapping the bearing in an axial direction;
- a hammer case accommodating at least a part of the output shaft and holding the bearing, and
- a converter configured to convert rotation of the operable member into movement of the bit sleeve, wherein
- the operable member includes a cam, and
- the converter includes
- a pin movable in the axial direction while being in contact with the cam in response to rotation of the operable member, and
- a bit washer in contact with the pin and the bit sleeve, and
- the pin and the bit washer are supported by the hammer case in a manner immovable relative to the hammer case in the circumferential direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.