US 7,456,608 B2
	Battery-driven screwdriver
Sven Kageler, Leinfelden-Echterdingen (Germany); Ginn Yuh Gan, Penang (Malaysia); and Abdul Aziz Zulfikar, Penang (Malaysia)
Assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (Germany)
Appl. No. 10/550,714 PCT Filed Jul. 24, 2004, PCT No. PCT/DE2004/001657 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Sep. 21, 2005, PCT Pub. No. WO2005/039833, PCT Pub. Date May 06, 2005.
Claims priority of application No. 103 45 135 (DE), filed on Sep. 29, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2006/0192527 A1, Aug. 31, 2006
Int. Cl. H02J 7/00 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 320—114  [307/64]

18 Claims

1. A cordless screwdriver with a charging cradle assembly comprising, the cordless screwdriver including a housing, a handle, charging contact tabs, and an output spindle; and the rechargeable battery having charging contacts, the cordless screwdriver and the rechargeable battery being configured so that the cordless screwdriver as a whole being placeable onto the charging cradle which automatically initiates a charging mode and in the charging mode being positioned on the charging cradle so that the housing of the cordless screwdriver is inclined relative to a horizontal plane and an end of said output spindle points downward.