US Patent Issued to Kyocera Senco Industrial Tools on Sept. 8 for "Fastener cap driving tool with self-reversing lead screw cap feeder" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,510, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Kyocera Senco Industrial Tools Inc. (Cincinnati).

"Fastener cap driving tool with self-reversing lead screw cap feeder" was invented by Braedon S. Flamm (Liberty Township, Ohio), Alexander D. Green (Cincinnati) and William D. Rice (West Chester, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fastener cap driving tool with a pressurized gas storage chamber that uses that pressurized gas as a gas spring to quickly force a piston and a driver into contact with a fastener. The pressurized gas is not vented to atmosphere, but is instead reused, and a motor powers a lifter to return the piston and the driver ...