ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,633, issued on March 3, was assigned to Hilti AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).
"Impact damping device for a rechargeable battery" was invented by Thomas Bader (Landsberg am Lech, Germany), Matthias Doberenz (Obermeitingen, Germany), Torsten Tussing (Obermeitingen, Germany), Soren Schopke (Igling, Germany) and Michael Brandner (Landsberg am Lech, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool, in particular a chipping hammer, having a housing and a battery interface device for releasably connecting at least one rechargeable battery to the power tool. An impact damping device is contained between the housing and the battery interface d...