The present invention relates generally to an impact wrench, and more particularly to an impact wrench having a detachable housing which facilitates maintenance.
In modern industrial applications, except using a general screwdriver or a wrench to tighten or loosen a fastener (e.g. screws, nuts, and so on), most of modern users will choose to use an impact tool (or a power tool) in order to improve an efficiency. The impact tool can provide great torque force and great impact force to tighten or loosen the fastener effectively and quickly.
Additionally, another impact tool is developed in order to solve a problem that an impact tool can't be adapted to a narrow space, wherein the another impact tool usually includes a motor, a transmission device, and an impact device. An output shaft of the motor is connected to the transmission device, and a working member (e.g. an anvil) of the impact device will transfer torque provided by the motor into a powerful rotational impact through the transmission device. The transmission device generally includes a plurality of transmission gears (e.g. bevel gear assembly). An output of the output shaft of the motor is transmitted by the transmission device, so that an axis of the working member of the impact device is perpendicular to an axis of the output shaft of the motor, thereby to solve the problem that the impact tool cannot be used in a narrow space.
After the impact tool is used for a long time, dust is easily accumulated in the impact tool, which may cause the gears or the bearings are worn more seriously. In order to ensure a precision of rotation, the impact tool needs to be maintained (e.g. interior clean, lubrication, and so on) after using a certain period of time. However, the conventional impact tool is hard to be disassembled or assembled, so that it's inconvenient to carry out an interior maintenance.
In view of the above, the primary objective of the present invention is to provide an impact wrench having a detachable housing, which facilitates disassembly and assembly to carry out an interior maintenance.
The present invention provides an impact wrench includes a front housing and a motor. A transmission mechanism and an impact mechanism are disposed in the front housing. A direction of a force outputted by the motor is changed through the transmission mechanism to drive a working member of the impact mechanism to rotate. A part of the working member is protruded and is exposed outside the front housing. The front housing includes a seat and a covering member which is detachably engaged with the seat, wherein the seat has a first joining surface and a first abutting surface which are adjoined. The first joining surface and the first abutting surface are located on different horizontal planes but not perpendicular to each other. The covering member has a second joining surface and a second abutting surface. The second joining surface is closely abutted to the first joining surface, and the second abutting surface is closely abutted to the first abutting surface when the seat is engaged with the covering member. The covering member has a perforation, and a part of the working member passes through the perforation.
The present invention provides another impact wrench includes a front housing and a motor. A transmission mechanism and an impact mechanism are disposed in the front housing. A direction of a force outputted by the motor is changed through the transmission mechanism to drive a working member of the impact mechanism to rotate. A part of the working member is protruded and is exposed outside the front housing. The front housing includes a seat, a first cap and a second cap, wherein a receiving space is formed together by the seat, the first cap, and the second cap. The first cap has a perforation, and a part of the working member passes through the perforation. When the second cap is removed, an opening of the front housing, which communicates with the receiving space, is exposed.
The impact wrench provided by the present invention includes the seat and the covering member which are detachably engaged to each other, thereby to make the interior maintenance of the impact wrench be carried out easily; likewise, the another impact wrench provided by the present invention includes the first cap and the second cap which are detachably engaged with the seat, which could facilitate interior maintenance of the impact wrench as well.
The present invention will be best understood by referring to the following detailed description of some illustrative embodiments in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which
As illustrated in
The front housing 10 includes a seat 12 and a covering member 14, wherein the covering member 14 is detachably engaged with the seat 12 and has the perforation 101, and a part of the working member 42 passes through the perforation 101. The transmission mechanism 30 and the impact mechanism 40 are disposed in the seat 12. When the covering member 14 is disengaged from the seat 12, a part of the transmission mechanism 30 and a part of the impact mechanism 40 are exposed outside, so that carrying out the maintenance (e.g. adding lubricant or cleaning) to the transmission mechanism 30 or the impact mechanism 40 disposed in the front housing 10 becomes more convenient. In the current embodiment, the seat 12 has a first receiving groove 121, and the covering member 14 has a second receiving groove 141. A side of the transmission mechanism 30 and a side of the impact mechanism 40 are received in the first receiving groove 121. Another side of the transmission mechanism 30 and another side of the impact mechanism 40 are received in the second receiving groove 141. The two sides of the transmission mechanism 30 are respectively abutted to the first receiving groove 121 and the second receiving groove 141 via a bearing 50. The side of the impact mechanism 40 is abutted to the first receiving groove 121 via a bearing 50, and the another side of the impact mechanism 40 is abutted to the second receiving groove 141 via a lining plate 52. The covering member 14 and the seat 12 are fastened by a plurality of fixing members 54 (e.g. screw bolts). In this way, the transmission mechanism 30 and the impact mechanism 40 could be securely mounted in a receiving space formed together by the seat 12 and the covering member 14.
The seat 12 has a first joining surface 122 and a first abutting surface 123, which are adjoined, wherein the first joining surface 122 and the first abutting surface 123 are located on different horizontal planes and are not perpendicular to each other. The covering member 14 has a second joining surface 142 and a second abutting surface 143 corresponding to the first joining surface 122 and the first abutting surface 123 respectively. When the seat 12 is engaged with the covering member 14, the second joining surface 142 is closely abutted to the first joining surface 122, and the second abutting surface 143 is closely abutted to the first abutting surface 123. Referring to
In practice, the first abutting surface 123 and the second abutting surface 143 could also be flat, as shown in
As illustrated in
The seat 12 has the first receiving groove 121, and the first cap 60a has the second receiving groove 141, so that the transmission mechanism 30 and the impact mechanism 40 could be securely mounted in the receiving space. As shown in
It is worthy to mention that the first cap 60a has an extending portion 146 which is adjacent to the opening 102. A side of the second cap 60b, which faces the receiving space, has a slot 147 corresponding to the extending portion 146. When the first cap 60a and the second cap 60b are engaged with the seat 12, the slot 147 is engaged with the extending portion 146, thereby to prevent dust from coming in the impact wrench 2 through a leakage between the first cap 60a and the second cap 60b. Preferably, faying surfaces of the slot 147 and the extending portion 146 are curved surfaces.
The configuration between the first joining surface 122, the first abutting surface 123, the second joining surface 142, and the second abutting surface 143 is the same as the first embodiment, thus we are not going to describe in details herein. The differences between the first embodiment and the second embodiment are described below. In the current embodiment, the first cap 60a has the second joining surface 142, and the second cap 60b has the second abutting surface 143. Besides, the second cap 60b has the protruding members 144 which are disposed on the second abutting surface 143. The first abutting surface 123 of the seat 12 has the two recesses 124 corresponding to the protruding members 144, so that when the second abutting surface 143 of the second cap 60b is tightly abutted to the first abutting surface 123 of the seat 12, the second cap 60b could be quickly aligned and mounted by matching the protruding members 144 with the recesses 124 (matching a protrusion and a recess), thereby to enhance convenience of assembling the second cap 60b and the seat 12.
Additionally, in the current embodiment, the first abutting surface 123 of the seat 12 is a concave surface, and the second abutting surface 143 of the second cap 60b is a convex surface corresponding to the first abutting surface 123; besides, the first joining surface 122 and the first abutting surface 123 are not located at the same horizontal planes and are not perpendicular to each other, and the second joining surface 142 and the second abutting surface 143 are not located at the same horizontal planes and are not perpendicular to each other. With such design, the first abutting surface 123 and the second abutting surface 143 could be engaged more tightly with a vertical component exerted by the fixing members 54 to the first abutting surface 123 and the second abutting surface 143, thereby to improve a seal tightness between the second cap 60b and the seat 12 and to prevent dust coming from outside. In practice, the first abutting surface 123 and the second abutting surface 143 could also be flat as mentioned above, or the first abutting surface 123 is a convex surface and the second abutting surface 143 is a concave surface corresponding to the first abutting surface 123.
It must be pointed out that the embodiment described above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention. All equivalent structures which employ the concepts disclosed in this specification and the appended claims should fall within the scope of the present invention.
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