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AssigneeMilwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
InventorsScott Libert, Ankit Patel, Patrick Schmidt, Drew Wyler, Hans Banholzer, Shane McCue, Beth Cholst, Drake Schlosser, Kevin Puls
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Chainsaws and methods of operating chainsaws are provided. A chainsaw includes a guide bar supporting a chain; a motor configured to drive the chain, the motor receiving power from an electrical energy source of the chainsaw; a sprocket operably coupled between the motor and the chain to impart driving force from the motor to the chain; and an operating device operably coupled between the motor and the sprocket and moveable between a driving state and a neutral state, wherein the chain is freely moveable in at least one direction relative to the motor when the operating device is in the neutral state.
A chainsaw comprising:
A method of operating a chainsaw, the method comprising:
A chainsaw comprising a motor receiving power from an electrical energy source of the chainsaw, wherein the motor drives a chain about a guide bar, wherein the chain is operably fixed to an output shaft of the motor when an operating device operably coupled between the motor and the chain is in a driving state, and wherein the chain is freely moveable in at least one direction relative to the output shaft of the motor when the operating device is in a neutral state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.