US Patent Issued to MAKITA on July 22 for "Reciprocating blades with sealing member for motion conversion mechanism" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,191, issued on July 22, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).

"Reciprocating blades with sealing member for motion conversion mechanism" was invented by Kohei Oishi (Anjo, Japan), Tomoyuki Kutsuna (Anjo, Japan) and Takayoshi Iio (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A working machine may include: a conversion mechanism configured to convert motion of a prime mover; a first blade connected to the conversion mechanism; a second blade overlapping with the first blade in an up-down direction and facing a first facing surface of the first blade; a sealing member engaged with a first non-facing surface of the first blade that i...