US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Nov. 4 for "Powered fastener driving tool having fuel/gas mixture compressed ignition" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,096, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Powered fastener driving tool having fuel/gas mixture compressed ignition" was invented by Chinbay Q. Fan (Chicago) and Patrick Talano (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide a powered fastener driving tool including a spring/gas chamber configured to contain pressurized gas that causes a piston to compress a fuel/gas mixture, the mixture combusted to provide necessary levels of power for driving fasteners while using less fuel. One embodiment includes: a housing; a spring/gas chamber in the housing configured to contain pres...