Patent 9373458 was granted and assigned to Bosch on June, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In a hand-held power tool with a device for presetting a selected rotation direction of a drive motor that is associated with the power tool and contained in a tool housing. The device is equipped with an actuating element accessible from outside the tool housing for mechanically actuating a switch element, which is situated inside the tool housing and is at least embodied for electrically switching between a first and second rotation direction of the drive motor, the switch element is situated in the vicinity of the actuating element.