Systems and methods for operating a power tool
AssigneeMilwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
InventorsLuke Skinner, Timothy Ryan Obermann, Benjamin Oliver Ryan Cabot, Thomas Cunningham Hanks
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Abstract
A power tool system includes a power tool configured to perform a work operation and a remote device configured to be in wireless communication with the power tool. The power tool includes a tool body, a trigger coupled to the tool body and selectively actuatable to initiate the work operation, and a first switch that is actuatable to prevent the trigger from initiating the work operation. The remote device receives a first signal from the power tool when the first switch is actuated to allow the remote device to initiate the work operation.
Claims20
A power tool system comprising:
- a power tool configured to perform work operation and including:
- a tool body,
- a trigger coupled to the tool body, the trigger selectively actuatable to initiate the work operation, and
- a first switch that is actuatable to prevent the trigger from initiating the work operation;
- and
- a remote device configured to be in wireless communication with the power tool, the remote device receiving a first signal from the power tool when the first switch is actuated to allow the remote device to initiate the work operation.
A method of operating a power tool to perform a work operation, the method comprising:
- actuating a lockout switch on a tool body to place the power tool in a remote-cut mode and disable a trigger that is supported on the tool body to allow local initiation of the work operation;
- and
- sending a first signal from the power tool to a remote device to allow the remote device to initiate the work operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.