ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,817, issued on March 24, was assigned to IMPACT Co. LTD. (Oita, Japan).
"Striking device" was invented by Mihoe Sato (Oita, Japan) and Susumu Horino (Oita, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A striking device includes a striking section that strikes a test object. This striking device is characterized by having: a vertically long intermediate link that is coupled to the striking section and can move in a state of maintaining a vertical orientation; and a laterally long driving link and a driven link that is driven by the driving link, one end of each of the driving link and the driven link being rotatably coupled to the intermedia...