Andreas Stihl Ag Co. Kg

Andreas Stihl Ag & Co. Kg

Alexander Scheel

Martin Kuhn

Marcel Witt

A handheld, portable work apparatus includes a housing defining an interior space, a drive motor arranged in the housing for driving a tool, a brake device assigned to the tool, a hand guard, and a switching unit which is arranged in the interior space of the housing for detecting the position of the brake device. The hand guard is arranged outside the housing and has an actuation contour for actuating the switching unit. The housing has an elastic element. The hand guard, the elastic element and the switching unit are arranged relative to one another such that the switching unit can be actuated by the elastic element being pushed in via the actuation contour of the hand guard.

Handheld, portable work apparatus

A portable handheld work apparatus includes a tool, an electric motor, a battery as power source for the electric motor, and a housing with a battery shaft for receiving the battery. The battery shaft has a removal opening delimited by an edge. An end face of the battery is delimited in the direction radially with respect to the removal direction by an edge region. The edge of the removal opening projects beyond the edge region of the end face of the battery. The work apparatus has a normal state, wherein the battery is removable from the battery shaft through the removal opening. The work apparatus has a temporary impact state which can occur in an impact of the housing onto an impact surface. A capture element is arranged in the region of the edge of the removal opening and, in the normal state, permits a removal of the battery.

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Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany

Alexander Scheel