US Patent Issued to Black & Decker on Nov. 11 for "Reciprocating tool having offset spur gear and counterweighting assembly" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,048, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Reciprocating tool having offset spur gear and counterweighting assembly" was invented by Brent A Kuehne (Red Lion, Pa.), Zhicheng Qian (Suzhou, China), Xin Bao (Suzhou, China), Shihuai Wang (Suzhou, China), Dongrong Qiu (Suzhou, China) and Jiachao Xu (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reciprocating power tool includes a transmission that converts rotational force from a motor to linear forces output by a reciprocating device and a counterbalancing device. The transmission is a parallel axis transmission including a first gear portion and ...