US Patent Issued to BLACK & DECKER on May 19 for "Fastener tool with continuously powered flywheel" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,806, issued on May 19, was assigned to BLACK & DECKER INC. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Fastener tool with continuously powered flywheel" was invented by Daniel Hegarty (Baltimore) and Jongsoo Lim (Timonium, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fastener tool that drives a fastener into a workpiece includes a housing, a driver, a motor, a flywheel, an actuator, and a controller. The motor is configured to be in either its energized state or its deenergized state. The actuator is configured to move the driver into engagement with the flywheel. The controller is operatively connected to the motor and the actuator to implement a firing sequence...