ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,964, issued on May 20, was assigned to Max Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Binding machine" was invented by Takeshi Morijiri (Tokyo), Masato Utsugi (Tokyo) and Shinpei Sugihara (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A binding machine including a wire feeding unit, a cutting unit, and a binding unit. The cutting unit includes a pair of blade parts that sandwiches and cuts a first wire and a second wire therebetween, a first butting portion against which the first wire is butted by relative movement of the pair of blades, and a second butting portion against which the second wire is butted. The cutting unit has a step portion provided between the fi...