Makita Corporation

Goshi Ishikawa

Takuya Kusakawa

Kazuki Oguchi

Shinsuke Okuda

Ryunosuke Kumagai

Yoshitaka Ichikawa

Shinji Hirabayashi

Tokuo Hirabayashi

Yuki Kawai

Motohiro Omura

Hirokatsu Yamamoto

Itsuku Kato

Masahiro Watanabe

Yasuhito Kawai

Manabu Tokunaga

Tatsuki Mori

Takeshi Nishimiya

Yoshihiro Ito

Kunihisa Shima

Takaaki Osada

Shinichi Hira

Tatsuya Yoshizaki

Seitaro Hayashi

Toshihisa Takada

Nobuaki Kawatani

Kazuhiko Yoshida

A rotary impact tool in one aspect of the present disclosure includes a motor, an impact mechanism, an impact detector, and a controller. The controller executes constant duty ratio control from when the motor is started until an impact is detected by the impact detector. The controller executes constant rotation speed control in response to detection of an impact by the impact detector.

Rotary impact tool

An electric working machine in one aspect of the present disclosure includes a motor, a controller, and a setter. The controller is configured to change a rotational state of the motor, in response to an establishment of a condition for change after the motor is initiated, from a low speed rotation to a high speed rotation. The setter is configured to set, based on a situation in the motor in the low speed rotation, a control variable of the motor in the high speed rotation and/or the condition for change.

Electric working machine and method of controlling rotational state of motor of electric working machine

A laser marker in one aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure comprises a laser light generator, a main body, and a pack attachment portion. The pack attachment portion is configured such that a battery pack, which is chargeable and dischargeable and supplies electric power to the laser light generator, is slidably attached to an outer surface of the main body.

Laser marker

In a rotary impact tool according to an aspect of the present disclosure, an impact mechanism rotates an output shaft by a rotational force of a motor and, when a torque equal to or greater than a given value is externally applied to the output shaft in a direction opposite a rotational direction of the output shaft, the impact mechanism intermittently applies an impact force as a momentary torque to the output shaft in the rotational direction of the output shaft. A protection unit stops the motor or reduces a rotational speed of the motor on condition that an abnormal impact detection unit detects the abnormal impact. A control unit controls activation of the protection unit differently when the rotational direction of the motor is set to a reverse rotational direction in comparison with when the rotational direction of the motor is set to a forward rotational direction.

Rotary impact tool and method for controlling the same

A rotary impact tool according to one aspect of the present invention includes a motor, an impact mechanism, a drive unit, an impact detection unit, and a control unit. The control unit reduces a driving force for the motor caused by the drive unit when a count of impacts detected by the impact detection unit has reached a determination count set in advance, which is a value greater than one.

An electric power tool in one aspect of the present disclosure comprises a motor, a hitting mechanism, a hitting detector, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to set a control amount of the motor so that the motor rotates at a lower speed than a speed in the target rotation state during an initial driving period, and switch the control amount to a final control amount corresponding to the target rotation state when the initial driving period elapses. The initial driving period is a period from when generation of a hitting force is detected by the hitting detector until a predetermined first time period elapses, after the motor is started driven.

Electric power tool

A job-site electric apparatus in one aspect the present disclosure includes a housing, an operation device, a terminal, a separator, a coupling device, and a sealing portion. The separator is configured to separate the housing into a first area and a second area, and includes a through hole that allows communication between the first area and the second area. The first area includes the operation device. The second area includes the terminal. The coupling device passes through the through hole and electrically couple the terminal to the operation device. The sealing portion seals the through hole through which the coupling device passes.

Job-site electric apparatus and method for reducing invasion of foreign matter into job-site electric apparatus

A motor driven appliance comprises a battery, a motor, at least one switch, a control unit, an abnormality detection unit, a determination unit, and a processing unit. The at least one switch comprises an operation switch. The control unit controls driving of the motor by controlling power supply from the battery to the motor when the operation switch is turned on. The abnormality detection unit detects abnormality of the appliance. The determination unit determines whether the detected abnormality is a first type abnormality that can be cleared when the operation switch is switched from on to off, or is a second type abnormality that cannot be cleared even if the operation switch is merely switched from on to off. The processing unit is configured to perform a specific process when it is determined that the detected abnormality is the second type abnormality.

Motor driven appliance

A motor driven appliance in one aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure comprises a light source, a lighting unit, a motor, an operation unit, an operation detector, a reference signal output unit, a determination unit, and a control unit. The operation detector detects that the operation unit is operated, and outputs an operation detection signal that indicates that the operation unit is operated. The reference signal output unit outputs at least one reference signal that can be used as a reference for determining whether the detection by the operation detector is normal. The determination unit determines whether the operation unit is actually operated based on the operation detection signal and the at least one reference signal. The control unit controls operation of the lighting unit based on the determination made by the determination unit.

One aspect of an embodiment of the present disclosure is a braking apparatus for an electric power tool that includes a switching circuit with six switching elements and a brake control unit. The brake control unit switches any one selected switching element of three switching elements forming one selected switch group of a high-side switch group and a low-side switch group to an off state from an on state at a timing at which braking current flows through a diode connected in parallel to the selected switching element upon turn-off of the selected switching element.

Braking apparatus for electric power tool

An electric power tool includes a motor with a rotor having a permanent magnet; a control unit that sets a control amount of the motor in accordance with operation of an operation portion and that drive-controls the motor based on the control amount; and a number-of-rotations detection unit that detects the number of rotations of the motor. During driving of the motor, when the number of rotations detected by the number-of-rotations detection unit has reached an upper limit number of rotations set in advance, the control unit shifts drive control of the motor to rotation control, in which the control amount is made to be increased or decreased so that the number of rotations of the motor becomes a predetermined target number of rotations.

Power tool () may include a motor and oil pulse unit () that generates an elevated torque. Oil pulse unit () may be coupled to the motor and have output shaft (). When load acting on output shaft () is less than a predetermined value, rotating torque generated by the motor is directly transmitted to output shaft (). When the load acting on output shaft () exceeds the predetermined value, an elevated torque is generated by oil pulse unit () and applied to output shaft (). Output shaft () may be connected to load shaft (). A socket may be attached to the distal end of load shaft (). Power tool () may further include detecting device () for detecting change in rotational angle of output shaft () and the direction of rotation thereof, and a control device. The detecting device () may output signals corresponding to a state of output shaft () to the control device. The control device may store the state of output shaft () at predetermined interval. Preferably, the control device may further determine a generating time, at which oil pulse unit () generates the elevated torque, based upon the state of output shaft ().

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