US Patent Issued to MATATAKITOYO TOOL on March 11 for "Torque wrench with overload warning mechanism" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,417, issued on March 11, was assigned to MATATAKITOYO TOOL Co. LTD. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Torque wrench with overload warning mechanism" was invented by Yi-Min Wu (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A torque wrench includes a wrench body, a deformable rod, a torque adjustment mechanism, a switch and an alarm. The wrench body includes a working section and a gripping section. Two ends of the deformable rod are fixed to the working section and the gripping section respectively, and a middle section is formed in-between. The torque adjustment mechanism is installed in the gripping section and includes a knob and an abutting...