Black Decker Inc.

Schroeder, Jim D.

Daniel Puzio

Robert S Gehret

Michael Lester O'Banion

Warren A Ceroll

Frederick R Bean

David A Porter

Craig Alan Schell

Scott J Eshleman

James B Watson

Daniel A Ferrara

Joseph Patrick Kelleher

Robert Bradus

Daniele C Brotto

James R Parks

Andrew E Seman, Jr

Adan Ayala

Sankarshan N Murthy

Scott M Rudolph

Robert G Kusmierski

Aris C Cleanthous

Robert P Welsh

Qiang J Zhang

Thomas Jay Bodine

John E Buck

John D Cox

Robert Alan Berry

Joao Norona

Robert J Opsitos, Jr

Joerg Zellerhoff

Daniel Joseph White

Christopher Ryan Yahnker

Paul S White

Stephen P Osborne

Brian E Friedman

Tal Gottesman

Scott M Livingston

Edward Allen Harrison

John Charles Vanko

Samuel G Woods

Maria I Kenyon

Stephen A Debelius

Lawrence E Milburn

William E Pugh, Ii

Joseph G Stauffer

Gabriel E Concari

Christopher J Murray

Michael Kenneth Forster

Richard Thomas Walter

Stuart E Garber

David A Carrier

Daniel L Krout

James P Bascom

Fred S Watts

Richard C Nickels, Jr

Robert Alan Usselman

John K Horky

Philip T Miller

Michael L Agronin

Richard J Heavel

Jason F Busschaert

William R Stumpf

Christine H Potter

Rouse Roby Bailey, Jr

Louis M Shadeck

Eric E Hatfield

David E Duncanson

Michael C Doyle

Carl F Merhar, Iii

James Dunlap Hays

Eva J Dixon

Lewis Hampton Rohr

Amanda Miller

Todd A Hagan

Alfred H Judge

Ren H Wang

Daniel Lee Schwarz

Ethan L Helmer

Clark A Bixler

David C Campbell

Daniel N Lopano

Robert G Moores, Jr

Mehdi T Abolhassani

David C Tomayko

Thomas James Wheeler

Oleksiy P Sergyeyenko

Paul Gerard Gross

Steven J Phillips

Andrew E Seman

Robert B Schoch

Michael P Baron

Thomas W Murray

Shailesh P Waikar

Russell Hester

John R Cochran

Paul K Trautner

Christopher Wade Shook

Fugen Qin

Uday S Deshpande

Christopher R Held

David E Scheerer

An actuator assembly for a power tool includes an actuator with a permanent magnet. The actuator is moveable between a first position for a first mode of operation, and a second position for a second mode of operation. A first positioning member is adjacent the first position composed of a ferromagnetic material to attract the permanent magnet. A second positioning member is adjacent the second position and composed of a ferromagnetic material to attract the permanent magnet. An electromagnet may be energized to move the actuator between the first position and the second position. When the electromagnet is not energized and the actuator is in the first position, the actuator is retained in the first position. When the electromagnet is not energized and the actuator is in the second position, the actuator is retained in the second position. When the electromagnet is energized, the actuator moves between the first and second positions.

Electromagnetic actuator for power tool

A tool storage system includes a tool storage container configured to receive therein a battery for a power tool with an inductive receiving unit. An inductive transmitting unit is coupled to the tool storage container and configured to receive a source of electrical power. The inductive transmitting unit is configured to induce generation of electrical power in the inductive receiving unit to charge the battery. A controller is configured to control generation of electrical power by the inductive receiving unit based on a position or alignment of the inductive receiving unit relative to the inductive transmitting unit.

Lighted power tool

A drain cleaning device includes a power unit and a drum assembly coupled to the power unit for rotation by the power unit. The drum assembly includes a base, a cable received in the base that is configured to be fed from the base and rotated to clean a drain, and a cover releasably coupleable to the base. The drum assembly includes a plurality of taper locks releasably coupling an outer peripheral portion of the cover and an outer peripheral portion of the base. Each of the taper locks is moveable between a locked position in which the cover is retained on the base and an unlocked position in which the cover is removable from the base. Each of the taper locks being biased toward the locked position.

Drain cleaning device

A lighting apparatus is provided with a housing forming a battery housing and a light housing separated via a partitioning wall. A light module is supported by the light housing and includes a heat sink located at least partially within the light housing and at least one LED supported by the heat sink. A battery receptacle formed within the battery housing to slidingly receive a battery pack at least partially into the battery housing. An intake opening is formed within the partitioning wall and an air vent is formed in fluid communication with the light housing. In operation, an airflow passes in thermal contact with the battery pack from the battery housing into the light housing through the intake opening, and from the light housing in thermal contact with the heat sink out of the air vent.

Light apparatus having air flow

A modification system for the modification of elongated pieces of stock may include a powered tool for modifying, or altering the piece of elongated stock, and a support device for supporting a position of the elongated stock relative to the powered tool. An arrangement of the components of the powered tool may provide for ergonomic balance of the powered tool. The support device may include a clamping device that clamps, or holds the elongated stock, and an adjustment device that adjusts a position of the clamping device based on a size of the elongated stock. The support device may include a latching device that maintains the position of the clamping device relative to the stock. A reaction arm may inhibit rotation of the tool relative to the stock during operation. A biasing device may provide for application of an axial biasing force on the stock, to initiate operation.

Pipe threading or cutting device

A lighting apparatus is provided with a housing that includes a rear mounting platform and a partitioning wall extending from the rear mounting platform to form a first cavity and a second cavity within the housing. The lighting apparatus includes a light module mounted on the housing to seal the first cavity, where the light module includes a heat sink located at least partially within the first cavity and at least one LED supported by the heat sink. A battery receptacle is formed within the second cavity, where the battery receptacle is arranged to receive a removable battery pack through a lower open end of the second cavity in a direction parallel to a plane of the rear mounting platform.

Shed light

A power tool includes a tool body including a motor having an output member that drives an accessory. A chuck is coupled for rotation with the output member relative to the tool body and configured to retain the accessory. The chuck has a chuck body that defines at least one light pipe formed therethrough. A light source disposed on a light ring coupled to the tool body and includes at least one light. Each at least one light source aligns with each of the at least one light pipe intermittently during rotation of the chuck.

A cutting tool includes a housing, a head assembly disposed on the housing and carrying a first blade. A cam drive mechanism is disposed within the housing. The cam drive mechanism carries a second blade opposed to the first blade. A motor drives the cam drive mechanism. A battery pack is electrically connected to the motor. The cam drive mechanism moves the second blade towards the first blade, so that a wire disposed between the first and second blades receives a cutting force of less than 12 kiloNewton. The cam drive mechanism may include a spindle driven by the motor, a radial cam fixed to the spindle, a roller assembly contacting the radial cam, and a shuttle connected to the roller assembly, the shuttle being movable in a reciprocating motion and carrying the second blade.

Wire cutting tool

Powered drain auger

A power tool having a rotary impact mechanism and a mode change mechanism. The impact mechanism is driven by an output member of a transmission and includes a hammer and an anvil. The mode change mechanism includes a mode collar that is movable between a first position, in which the mode collar directly couples the hammer to the transmission output member to inhibit movement of the hammer relative to the spindle, and a second position in which the mode collar does not inhibit movement of the hammer relative to the spindle.

Hybrid impact tool

A power tool system includes a power tool, a power tool battery pack and a battery pack charger. The power tool battery pack is separable from and attachable to the power tool, and electrically connectable to the power tool electrical terminals when attached to the power tool. The power tool battery pack has at least one battery cell, a receiver coil, and a control circuit for controlling the amount of power that is provided to the at least one battery cell. The battery pack charger has at least one transmitter coil for generating a magnetic field which induces a voltage in the receiver coil, and a control circuit for controlling the amount of power that is provided to the transmitter coil.

Power tool battery pack wireless charger

A power tool includes a housing, a motor, an output member driven by the motor, and a reaming attachment coupled to the output member. The reaming attachment has a front end portion selectively driven in rotation by the output member to drive a fastener into a workpiece, and a reaming portion selectively driven in rotation by the output member to remove material from an end surface of a conduit. A rotational motion sensor in the housing is operable to detect rotational motion of the housing about an axis. A controller receives a signal indicative of rotational motion from the sensor, determines a direction of the rotational motion of the housing, and drives the motor in a direction corresponding to the direction of rotational motion of the housing.

Power tool having rotary input control

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Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Daniel Puzio