US Patent Issued to Milwaukee Electric Tool on Aug. 26 for "Hydraulic tool having ram piston with integrated overload assembly" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,407, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).

"Hydraulic tool having ram piston with integrated overload assembly" was invented by James G. Ballard (Waukesha, Wis.) and James O. Myrhum Jr. (West Bend, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention provide a ram assembly for a hydraulic tool. The ram assembly includes a ram piston having a ram cavity. The ram piston receives a hydraulic pressure reaction force. The ram assembly further includes an overload assembly disposed in the ram cavity or in a cavity defined by a manifold. The overload assembly includes a burst disc p...