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US 12,415,244 B2Granted
Remotely activated portable hand tool
AssigneeHubbell Incorporated
InventorsMichael Paul Rzasa, Daniel Paul Owens, Jamshid Kakkattil, Rajesh Balan
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides hand-held, battery-powered tools for performing operations such as crimping and cutting, and having a remote monitoring and control systems. A frame of the tool supports a working head, a battery, a motor connected to the battery, a controller and a camera.
Claims20
A portable tool comprising:
- a frame;
- a working head operatively coupled to the frame and configured to perform a crimping or cutting operation;
- a motor positioned within the frame, a hydraulic system positioned within the frame and operatively coupled to the motor, and a ram operatively coupled to the hydraulic system and movably connected to the working head;
- a camera attached to the frame so that the camera is focused on a working area of the working head;
- a controller positioned within the frame and including a motor drive module configured to control an operation of the motor, and a wireless transceiver module interactive with the controller and configured to transmit tool information to an external computing device, and to receive one or more commands from the external computing device to activate the motor drive module causing the motor to activate the hydraulic system to cause the ram to initiate the crimping or cutting operation or to deactivate the motor drive module.
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A portable tool system comprising:
- an external computing device having a device wireless transceiver configured to receive transmitted tool information and send one or more commands;
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- a portable tool including:
- a frame;
- a working head operatively coupled to the frame and configured to perform a crimping or cutting operation;
- a motor positioned within the frame, a hydraulic system positioned within the frame and operatively coupled to the motor, and a ram operatively coupled to the hydraulic system and movably connected to the working head;
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- a controller positioned within the frame and including a motor drive module configured to control an operation of the motor, and a wireless transceiver module capable of transmitting the tool information or receiving the one or more commands;
- wherein the one or more commands transmitted by the external computing device are received by the wireless transceiver module causing the controller to activate or deactivate an operation of the portable tool;
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- wherein the tool information transmitted by the portable tool is received by the external computing device such that the tool information can be presented to an operator of the external computing device.
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A portable tool comprising:
- a frame;
- a working head operatively coupled to the frame and configured to perform a crimping or cutting operation;
- a motor positioned within the frame, a hydraulic system positioned within the frame and operatively coupled to the motor, and a ram operatively coupled to the hydraulic system and movably connected to the working head;
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- a controller positioned within the frame and including a motor drive module configured to control an operation of the motor, and a wireless transceiver module capable of transmitting tool information or receiving one or more commands;
- wherein the one or more commands transmitted by an external computing device is received by the wireless transceiver module causing the controller to activate or deactivate an operation of the portable tool;
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- wherein the tool information transmitted by the portable tool can be received by the external computing device such that the tool information can be presented to an operator of the external computing device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.