ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,499, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Max Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Binding machine" was invented by Kouichirou Morimura (Tokyo), Yusuke Yoshida (Tokyo) and Takahiro Ito (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A binding machine includes: a wire feeder; a curl forming unit forming a wire feeding path for winding a wire fed in a first direction by the wire feeder; a binding unit configured to twist a wire wound around the objects to be bound; and a controller configured to control the wire feeder and the binding unit. The wire feeder includes a pair of feed members configured to clamp a wire and feed a wire by a rotation operation, and a feed...