Electric power tool
AssigneeMakita Corporation
InventorsAkira Mizutani, Tatsuya Yoneyama
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Abstract
A reciprocating tool includes a toggle switch that is turned on or off by tilting a lever, and a switch lever in a motor housing. The switch lever includes an engagement frame into which the lever is inserted, and can slide in a tilting direction. The switch lever is slid to tilt the lever to an ON position or an OFF position through a sliding operation of the switch lever from the outside. An engagement portion of the switch lever on a side closer to the ON position of the lever is provided with a slanted guide surface that guides the lever in the ON position to the OFF position when the toggle switch is attached into an upper housing having the switch lever attached thereto.
Claims11
An electric power tool comprising:
- a toggle switch that is provided in a housing and turned on or off by tilting a lever;
- a switch lever having a pair of engagement portions with which the lever is engaged on front and back sides in a tilting direction thereof, the switch lever being slidable in the tilting direction and tilting the lever to an ON position or an OFF position through a sliding operation from outside of the housing;
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- a slanted guide surface provided at the engagement portion of the switch lever on a side closer to the ON position of the lever, the slanted guide surface being different from a portion of the engagement portion which engages the lever when the switch lever slides in the tilting direction, the slanted guide surface being structured such that the slanted guide surface tilts the lever in abutment therewith in the ON position toward the OFF position when the toggle switch is attached into the housing while the lever is inserted between the pair of engagement portions.
An electric power tool comprising:
- a toggle switch that is provided in a housing and turned on or off by tilting a lever;
- a switch lever having a pair of engagement portions with which the lever is engaged on front and back sides in a tilting direction thereof, the switch lever being slidable in the tilting direction and tilting the lever to an ON position or an OFF position through a sliding operation from outside of the housing;
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- a slanted guide surface provided at the engagement portion of the switch lever on a side closer to the ON position of the lever, the slanted guide surface being structured such that the slanted guide surface tilts the lever in abutment therewith in the ON position toward the OFF position when the toggle switch is attached into the housing while the lever is inserted between the pair of engagement portions,
- wherein a quadrangular engagement frame into which the lever of the toggle switch is inserted is provided at an end portion of the switch lever, and the engagement portions are provided at front and rear frame portions of the engagement frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.