CA2573330A1 - Power hand tool - Google Patents

Abstract

A power hand tool includes a housing that houses a motor, a transmission gear set, a torque control mechanism and an impact mechanism. The torque control mechanism has an adjustment device that is movable between a first position and a second position inside the housing by a rotation action to set a predetermined output torque of the power hand tool. The output torque of the power hand tool is at the minimum condition and the adjustment device stops the impact mechanism from working to prevent destruction to the torque setting of the power hand tool when the adjustment device is in the second position.

Claims (4)

1. A power hand tool comprising:
a housing;

a motor fixedly mounted inside said housing, said motor having a motor shaft;

a transmission gear set mounted inside said housing, said transmission gear set comprising at least one sun gear coupled to said motor shaft, at least one planet carrier, at east one planet gear set rotatably mounted on said planet carrier and rotatable by said sun gear directly or indirectly, and an output shaft fixedly provided at said planet carrier;

a torque control mechanism comprising:

an internal gear meshed with said planet gear set inside said housing, said internal gear having an actuating end face and a plurality of protruding portions annularly, equiangularly and spacedly located at said actuating end face;

a holder shell fixedly mounted inside said housing adjacent to one side of said internal gear, said holder shell having a shell body, a round shaft having an outer thread, and an axial hole running through said shell body and said round shank, said shell body having a first end face facing the actuating end face of said internal gear, a second end face from which said round shank perpendicularly extends, and a plurality of through holes running through the first end face and the second end face;

an adjustment device having an adjustment ring which is provided with an inner thread meshed the outer thread of the round shank of said holder shell and rotatable to move said adjustment device between a first position and a second position;

a plurality of spring members respectively mounted in the through holes of said holder shell;

a plurality of steel balls respectively stopped between the spring members and the actuating end face of said internal gear; and a plurality of pins respectively inserted into the through holes of said holder shell and stopped between the spring members and said adjustment device for enabling said steel balls to receive a first pressure from the spring members when said adjustment device is in said first position and for enabling said steel balls to receive a second pressure from the spring members when said adjustment device is in said second position; wherein the second pressure is greater than the first pressure; and an impact mechanism comprising a final output shaft, a transmission shaft, an impact element, and a spring member, said final output shaft being rotatably mounted in said housing and partially extended out of said housing, said final output shaft having a coupling portion at one end thereof, said transmission shaft being coupled to the output shaft of said transmission gear set for synchronous rotation with the output shaft of said transmission gear set, said impact element being sleeved onto said transmission shaft and axially movable along said transmission shaft between a third position and a fourth position, said impact element having a coupling portion, the coupling portion of said impact element being coupled to the coupling portion of said final output shaft for allowing rotation of said final output shaft with said transmission shaft and the output shaft of said transmission gear set when said impact element is located at said third position, the coupling portion of said impact element being disengaged from the coupling portion of said final output shaft when said impact element is located at said fourth position, the spring member of said impact mechanism being supported between said transmission shaft and said impact element to hold said impact element in said third position;

wherein said impact element is stopped by said adjustment device in said third position and prohibited from moving to said fourth position when said adjustment device is in said first position.

2. The power hand tool as claimed in claim 1, wherein said housing comprises a rotary front cap provided with a plurality of locating blocks equiangularly spaced around an inside wall thereof; said adjustment ring comprises a plurality of locating grooves equiangularly spaced around the periphery thereof and respectively coupled to the locating blocks of said rotary front cap for enabling said adjustment ring to be moved along said round shank of said holder shell between said first position and said second position upon rotation of said rotary front cap.

3. The power hand tool as claimed in claim 1, wherein said adjustment ring has a first end face and a second end face opposite to the first end face;
said adjustment device further comprises a needle bearing attached to the second end face of said adjustment ring for enabling the second end face of said adjustment ring to stop at said needle bearing against said impact element and to hold said impact element in said third position and to prohibit movement of said impact element toward said fourth position when said adjustment ring is in said first position.

4. The power hand tool as claimed in claim 3, wherein said round shank of said holder shell has two longitudinal sliding grooves symmetrically disposed at two opposite sides; said adjustment device further comprises a ring member mounted on the round shank of said holder shell between the second end face of said holder shell and the first end face of said adjustment ring, said ring member having two protruded positioning portions respectively coupled to the longitudinal sliding grooves of said round shank of said holder shell.