US Patent Issued to MAKITA on Aug. 11 for "Reciprocating tool, and method for detecting occurrence of malfunction associated with position detection of reciprocating member in reciprocating tool" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,072, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).

"Reciprocating tool, and method for detecting occurrence of malfunction associated with position detection of reciprocating member in reciprocating tool" was invented by Naoya Asami (Anjo, Japan), Kosuke Goto (Anjo, Japan) and Yuki Kawai (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of the present disclosure provides a reciprocating tool including a reciprocating member, a first position detector, a second position detector, and a control circuit. The control circuit detects occurrence of malfunction associated with the first position detector or the second ...