US Patent Issued to MAKITA on June 30 for "Power tool" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,951, issued on June 30, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).

"Power tool" was invented by Miyuki Asahi (Anjo, Japan), Yasuhito Kawai (Anjo, Japan), Tomoya Hattori (Anjo, Japan), Yuta Suzuki (Anjo, Japan), Haruki Tejima (Anjo, Japan), Tokuo Hirabayashi (Anjo, Japan) and Tomoyuki Kondo (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool includes a motor, an output part, a housing, a control circuit board, and a panel. The motor includes a rotor rotatable about a motor rotation axis extending in a front-rear direction. The output part is disposed forward of the motor and is rotated by a rotational force of the rotor. The hou...