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US 2023/0389470 A1Published application
Trimmers and auto advancing trimmer lines
AssigneeMilwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
InventorsBeth Cholst, Jonathan Abbott
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Abstract
Trimmers and auto advancing trimmer lines are provided. A trimmer includes a trimmer head disposed on a connecting member, a user interface disposed on the connecting member, wherein the user interface is configured to operate the trimmer head, a sensor configured to determine a length of a trimmer line extending from the trimmer head, and an auto advance mechanism configured to extend the trimmer line extending from the trimmer head based on feedback from the sensor.
Claims19
A trimmer comprising:
- a trimmer head disposed on a connecting member;
- a user interface disposed on the connecting member, wherein the user interface is configured to operate the trimmer head;
- a sensor configured to determine a length of a trimmer line extending from the trimmer head;
- and,
- an auto advance mechanism configured to extend the trimmer line extending from the trimmer head based on feedback from the sensor.
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A method for auto advancing a trimmer line of a trimmer, the method comprising:
- determining a length of the trimmer line extending from a trimmer head;
- comparing the length to a predetermined threshold value;
- and,
- automatically advancing the trimmer line if the length falls below the predetermined threshold value.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.