US Patent Issued to MAKITA on Feb. 17 for "Portable machining apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,061, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).

"Portable machining apparatus" was invented by Akira Hachisuka (Anjo, Japan), Takuji Kimura (Anjo, Japan), Hiroka Suzuki (Anjo, Japan) and Daiki Imaida (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable machining apparatus facilitates addition of new electric components with an intended arrangement of various electric components. The portable machining apparatus includes a housing, an electric motor installed in the housing and including a motor shaft extending in an axial direction, a tip tool partially or fully exposed outside the housing and rotatable by the e...