US Patent Issued to MAKITA on Sept. 2 for "Power tool" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,563, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).

"Power tool" was invented by Tatsuya Nakamura (Anjo, Japan), Hiroki Kaneko (Anjo, Japan), Yunosuke Tanaka (Anjo, Japan), Yukiya Matsuoka (Anjo, Japan), Takahiro Kawakami (Anjo, Japan) and Takafumi Kotsuji (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool includes a spindle, a housing, a cover body configured to be removably mounted to the housing, a first engagement part provided on or in the cover body, and a second engagement part provided on or in the housing. The cover body includes an upper plate part and an outer peripheral part. The second engagement pa...