Patent ID: 8723453

Claim:
A handheld work apparatus comprising: an electric drive motor defining a motor-specific characteristic line of the drawn-in motor current (I) as a function of the rotational speed (n) of said electric drive motor; a control unit for controlling electric energy supplied to said electric drive motor; said control unit being adapted to limit said motor current (I) to values which lie below said motor-specific characteristic line when said rotational speed (n) lies below an engagement rotational speed (n E ); said control unit defining a control characteristic line of the electric input power (P) of said electric drive motor as a function of said rotational speed (n) in a work region (A) having a pregiven rotational speed band (Δn) above said engagement rotational speed (n E ); said control characteristic line being adapted to reduce said electric input power (P) within said rotational speed band (Δn) to an approximately even mean power (P R ) so as to cause the torque (T) of said electric drive motor to increase within said rotational speed band (Δn) with falling rotational speed (n); and, wherein said electric input power (P) drops in said pregiven rotational speed band (Δn) over a segment of said control characteristic line for a falling rotational speed (n).