ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,632, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).
"Impact tool" was invented by Tomoro Aoyama (Anjo, Japan) and Kazunori Kinoshita (Anjo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impact tool (1) includes: a motor (4); a spindle (6), which is disposed forward of the motor and is rotated by the motor; a hammer (33), which is supported by the spindle; an anvil (8), which is impacted in a rotational direction by the hammer, a motor housing (14), which houses the motor; a grip housing (15), which extends downward from the motor housing; and a battery-holding housing (16), which is disposed at a lower-end portion of the ...