ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,324, issued on July 8, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).
"Clutch mechanism" was invented by Kevin S. Puls (Milwaukee), Beth E. Cholst (Wauwatosa, Wis.), Casey D. Garces (Brookfield, Wis.), Tyler J. Reaker (Milwaukee), Brian J. Yue (Milwaukee), Kang Lin Chen (Dongguan, China) and Jie Wang (Dongguan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clutch can include an input; an output; a centrifugal clutch mechanism that transfers energy from the input to the output, the centrifugal clutch mechanism including: a disk; centrifugal weights movably coupled to the disk; and a central shaft rotatable relative to the d...