Patent ID: 7219435

Claim:
A portable electric cutting device comprising: a housing; a saw blade that cuts an object in a cutting direction; a saw cover attached to the housing and including a saw blade housing section that partially houses the saw blade; a base positioned below the housing and the saw cover and linked to one of the housing and the saw cover, the base having a bottom surface that slides on the object, the base being formed with an opening through which the saw blade projects downward beyond the bottom surface; a motor disposed in the housing for rotating the saw blade; a centrifugal fan disposed in the housing and rotatable about a rotary axis by the motor for generating an air current as fanned air; and wherein the saw cover has a partition wall disposed between the centrifugal fan and the saw blade housing section, the partition wall being formed with a plurality of division walls defining a plurality of discharge ports through which the fanned air generated inside the housing is discharged into the saw blade housing section of the saw cover; and wherein the plurality of division walls include at least one front division wall located at a front side of the rotary axis of the fan with respect to the cutting direction, the front division wall having an inclined part gradually approaching to the saw blade in the cutting direction.