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US 4,393,363 AGranted
Magnet base for tool
AssigneeFuju Jiko Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroshi Iwasaki
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Abstract
A magnet base for a tool, comprises: a yoke made up of two symmetrical parts which form a cylindrical hole; a cylindrical magnet made of ferrite material which is rotatably inserted in the cylindrical hole; and a handle unit engaged with the magnet to turn the latter so that the magnet base is placed in magnetically active state and in magnetically inactive state.
Claims6
A magnet base for a tool comprising:
- a cylindrical ferrite magnet having N and S poles respectively on both sides of a plane including the central axis of said magnet;
- a yoke having a cylindrical hole in which said magnet is rotatably fitted, said yoke being made up of two parts which are respectively positioned on opposite sides of a plane in parallel with the central axis of said hole, said two parts being joined together with a non-magnetic-permeable metal material;
- and a handle unit engaged with said magnet, said handle unit having a handle on the outside thereof to turn said magnet, which magnet base comprises:
- said cylindrical ferrite magnet having a sectional area substantially filling said cylindrical hole formed by said yoke;
- said two parts of said yoke being fabricated from a magnetic metal material;
- a stopper protruded from the inner surface of said cylindrical hole;
- a cut formed in the peripheral portion of said handle unit in such a manner that said cut is engaged with said stopper as said handle unit turns;
- said magnet base being placed in "off" state when said cut is engaged with said stopper by turning said handle unit in one direction, and said magnet base being placed in "on" state by turning said handle unit in the opposite direction to engage said cut with said stopper;
- wherein
- said stopper is so positioned that, when said cut is engaged with said stopper by turning said handle unit in said opposite direction, attraction takes place between said yoke and said magnet to push said cut against said stopper.
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