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US 8,910,459 B2Granted
Electric lawn mowers
AssigneeMakita Corporation
InventorsHideki Abe, Toshikazu Migita
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Abstract
An electric lawn mower may include a mower body including an electric motor, a cutting blade rotatably driven by the electric motor for mowing a lawn, and a battery mount configured to hold a battery where the electric motor is driven by electric power from the battery, and the battery is mountable on the battery mount at a mount position where the battery is positioned higher than the electric motor and rearward of an axis of the electric motor.
Claims20
An electric lawn mower comprising:
- a mower body including an electric motor, a cutting blade rotatably driven by the electric motor for mowing a lawn, a battery and a battery mount configured to hold the battery, wherein
- the electric motor is driven by electric power from the battery,
- the battery has a longitudinal axis and a front portion and a rear portion along the longitudinal axis,
- the battery is mountable to the battery mount at a mount position where the battery is positioned higher than the electric motor and rearward of an axis of the electric motor, and
- when the battery is at the mount position a lowermost portion of the front portion is positioned at a level higher than an uppermost portion of the electric motor, and the lowermost portion of the front portion is positioned at a level lower than a level of a lowermost portion of the rear portion.
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An electric lawn mower comprising:
- a mower body having an electric motor, a cutting blade rotatably driven by the electric motor for mowing a lawn, a battery, and a battery mount configured to hold the battery, wherein
- the electric motor is driven by electric power from the battery,
- the battery has a longitudinal axis and a front portion and a rear portion along the longitudinal axis,
- the battery is mountable to-the battery mount at a mount position so that the longitudinal axis of the battery is inclined at an angle relative to an axis of the electric motor, and
- when the battery is at the mount position a lowermost portion of the front portion is positioned at a level higher than an uppermost portion of the electric motor, and the lowermost portion of the front portion is positioned at a level lower than a level of a lowermost portion of the rear portion.
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An electric lawn mower comprising:
- a mower body including an electric motor, a cutting blade rotatably driven by the electric motor for mowing a lawn, a battery and a battery mount configured to be able to mount the battery, wherein
- the electric motor is driven by electric power from the battery,
- the battery has a longitudinal axis and a front portion and a rear portion along the longitudinal axis,
- the battery is mountable to the battery mount at a mount position that is spaced from an axis of the electric motor, and
- when the battery is at the mount position a lowermost portion of the front portion is positioned at a level higher than an uppermost portion of the electric motor, and the lowermost portion of the front portion is positioned at a level lower than a level of a lowermost portion of the rear portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.