Black Decker Inc.

Sam Woods

Craig Alan Schell

Michael Kenneth Forster

Bhanuprasad V Gorti

Nathan J Cruise

Daniel Puzio

Daniel Joseph White

John E Buck

Daniele C Brotto

James B Watson

Richard Thomas Walter

Christopher Ryan Yahnker

Adan Ayala

Paul S White

Robert Bradus

Thomas Jay Bodine

Edward Allen Harrison

A power tool for operating on a workpiece, the power tool having a housing and a motor disposed within the housing. A controller is connected to the motor and receives user inputs for turning on the motor and a power tool battery pack is connected to the controller and the motor. At least one light is connected to the controller for illuminating the workpiece. The controller can turn on the light in a predetermined pattern to alert the user to a tool condition, such as the charge level being below a predetermined level.

Fastening tool

A method for operating a driving tool, such as a fastening tool, that has a driver, a motor assembly with a motor and an output member, and an electrical power source. The methodology includes transmitting electrical power to the motor to rotate the output member and thereafter adjusting one or more control parameters if a rotational speed of the output member is not within a predetermined operating range.

Method for operating a power driver

A system of cordless power tools includes a cordless power tool adapted to removably receive a rechargeable battery pack. The battery pack and the power tool can have complementary grooves and rails or L-shaped surfaces that aid in aligning the positive and negative blade terminals of the battery pack to the positive and negative tool terminals, respectively, of the power tool.

Cordless power tool system having cordless power tool and battery pack that employ cooperating rails and grooves for connection of battery pack to cordless power tool

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Bel Air, MD, United States of America

Sam Woods