Patent 7628232 was granted and assigned to Hilti on December, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A rotary-percussion drill includes a four-start helical shaft (3) having a fourfold rotationally and mirror-symmetrical helix cross-section, with radially projecting convexly formed helical webs (4) extending from a concave groove bottom (5) up to the envelope circle (6) and having an undercut (7) with respect to a web width (S).