US Patent Issued to ATLAS COPCO INDUSTRIAL TECHNIQUE on June 23 for "Power tool comprising a hydraulic pulse unit" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,762, issued on June 23, was assigned to ATLAS COPCO INDUSTRIAL TECHNIQUE AB (Stockholm).

"Power tool comprising a hydraulic pulse unit" was invented by Thomas Pyddoke (Lidingo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an impulse tool including a motor, an output shaft, and a hydraulic pulse unit including an inertia drive member connected to the motor and rotatable about a rotation axis, an oil chamber enclosed in the inertia drive member and an impulse generating means arranged to transfer intermittently kinetic energy to the output shaft. The inertia drive member further includes an end piece having a transverse wall and a...