US 11,684,009 B2
Walk-behind mower with wide angle illumination
Tyler L. Graham, Milwaukee, WI (US); Anthony J. Buxton, Wauwatosa, WI (US); Benjamin F. Shaske, Pewaukee, WI (US); Adam N. Carter, Milwaukee, WI (US); Shane McCue, Greenfield, WI (US); John L. Whealon, West Bend, WI (US); Christopher Shawn Bullington, Milwaukee, WI (US); and Zachary Self, Nashotah, WI (US)
Assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation, Brookfield, WI (US)
Filed by MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION, Brookfield, WI (US)
Filed on Sep. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/466,078.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/074,554, filed on Sep. 4, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0071085 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. A01D 34/00 (2006.01); F21S 9/02 (2006.01); F21Y 115/10 (2016.01); A01D 101/00 (2006.01)
CPC A01D 34/001 (2013.01) [F21S 9/02 (2013.01); A01D 2101/00 (2013.01); F21Y 2115/10 (2016.08)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A walk-behind mower comprising:
a mower deck including a sidewall having a curvature;
a plurality of wheels rotatably coupled to the mower deck, the plurality of wheels configured to move the walk-behind mower over a support surface in a forward direction and a rearward direction;
a head coupled to the mower deck, the head configured to store at least one battery pack; and
a plurality of light sources coupled to at least one of the mower deck and the head, at least one of the plurality of light sources coupled to the mower deck and projecting light in a primary direction tangential to the curvature, the plurality of light sources configured to project light through a continuous illumination angle about the walk-behind mower, the illumination angle extending along an arc from the forward direction toward the rearward direction, the illumination angle being at least 90 degrees.