US Patent Issued to MAKITA on March 25 for "Power tool having hammer mechanism" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,684, issued on March 25, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).

"Power tool having hammer mechanism" was invented by Kiyonobu Yoshikane (Anjo, Japan), Yoshitaka Machida (Anjo, Japan), Hitoshi Iida (Anjo, Japan) and Kazuki Nakagawa (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool, such as a rotary hammer, includes a housing, an output shaft for mounting a tool accessary and a motor having a motor shaft that generates a rotational output for rotating and linearly hammering the output shaft. The rotational output of the motor shaft is coupled to the output shaft via a driving mechanism that includes a hammer mechanism. An ...