ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,471, issued on March 17, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).
"Belt sander" was invented by Katsumi Okochi (Anjo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt sander has an electric motor, a housing including a motor housing part, belt driving part, first handle and battery mounting part. Where a direction in which a rotational axis of the drive roller and the driven roller extend is a left-right direction, a direction wherein the rollers are arranged in parallel is a front-rear direction, and a direction orthogonal to the left-right and front-rear directions is an up-down direction, the belt driving part is below the motor, a...