ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,427, issued on March 11, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).
"Power tool having a hammer mechanism" was invented by Yoshitaka Machida (Anjo, Japan) and Kazuki Nakagawa (Anjo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The power tool includes: a handle; a biasing member for biasing the handle in a direction away from a final output shaft in the axial direction; at least one guiding member disposed between a housing and a first part of the handle so as to extend in the axial direction and configured to slidably guide relative movement between the handle and the housing; and at least one elastic member disposed at least one of betwee...