Power tool control system user interface
AssigneeBlack & Decker Inc.
InventorsMark A. Etter, Melinda J. Hearn
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Abstract
A power tool control system allows a user to operate a power tool through a graphical user interface communicatively coupled with a non-contact measurement and alignment device. The graphical user interface correlates user engageable selectors with a logically related menu of power tool setting options displayed on a display screen in a high quality and easily readable format. The non-contact measurement and alignment device uses one or more lasers to determine power tool settings and establish proper alignment based on user needs. The power tool control system further enables stud detection and visual indication of stud location.
Claims12
A non-contact measurement and alignment device for determining at least two settings for operation of a power tool, comprising:
- a graphical user interface for user operation of said power tool for indicating at least two of a power tool setting;
- a wireless networking assembly coupled with the graphical user interface, the wireless networking assembly for establishing a communicative link between the graphical user interface and a second computing system,
- wherein the wireless networking assembly enables a user of the non-contact measurement and alignment device to operate the power tool remotely.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.