Hook for electric power tools and electric power tool equipped with the hook
AssigneeMakita Corporation
InventorsHidenori Nagasaka, Ryunosuke Kumagai
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Abstract
A hook for electric power tools is disclosed. The hook is used with an electric power tool comprising a handle and a battery pack detachably mounted to a lower end portion of the handle. The hook is designed to be attached to the electric power tool in the proximity of the lower end portion of the handle and includes a ring-shaped slip-off preventing portion having an opening into which, when the battery pack is not attached to the handle, the handle can be inserted into the opening of the slip-off preventing portion, and when the battery pack is attached to the handle, the slip-off preventing portion can be prevented from being pulled out from the handle by the battery pack attached to the handle.
Claims10
A hook and power tool combination comprising:
- a power tool having a handle with a battery pack attachment portion configured to attach to a removable battery pack and a removable battery pack;
- the battery pack attachment portion of the power tool having a first cross-sectional height that is a maximum cross-sectional height of the battery pack attachment portion along a longitudinal axis of the handle;
- the removable battery pack having a second cross-sectional height that is a maximum cross-sectional height of the battery along the longitudinal axis of the handle, the second height being larger than the first height;
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- a hook configured to attach to the handle along the battery pack attachment portion, wherein the hook has a ring-shaped slip-off preventing portion having a diameter larger than the first height and wherein the combined height of the first and second heights is such that the handle can be inserted through the ring-shaped slip-off preventing portion when the battery pack is not attached to the handle, and when the battery pack is attached to the handle, the slip-off preventing portion is prevented from being pulled out from the handle by the battery pack attached to the handle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.