US Patent Issued to MAKITA on Oct. 20 for "Striking tool" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,687, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).

"Striking tool" was invented by Kiyonobu Yoshikane (Anjo, Japan) and Hideki Tsuji (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A striking tool 100 in which striking operation is done in a state that the striking tool 100 is downwardly dropped by the own weight, having a motor 210 with an output shaft to drive the drive mechanism, a controller 260 to control the motor 210, a functional member 280 to assist the striking operation and a controller case 270 to hold the controller 260, wherein the controller case 270 further holds the functional member 280."

The patent wa...