ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,944, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Max Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Binding machine" was invented by Osamu Itagaki (Tokyo) and Nobutaka Tashima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A binding machine includes a wire feeding unit that feeds a wire, a curl forming unit that forms a path along which the wire fed by the wire feeding unit is to be wound around an object, a cutting unit that cuts the wire wound on the object, a binding unit that twists the wire wound on the object and cut by the cutting unit, and a drive unit that drives the binding unit. The drive unit includes a motor and a decelerator that perform deceleration and amplificat...