US Patent Issued to MAKITA on Oct. 6 for "Electric driving tool" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,409, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).

"Electric driving tool" was invented by Masaya Nagao (Anjo, Japan) and Toshiro Hirayama (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving tool includes a driver configured to drive a driving member, a driver guide configured to guide a movement of the driver, a contact arm configured to slidably couple to the driver guide, and an adapter configured to be detachably attachable to the contact arm. The adapter protrudes from the contact arm in a driving direction such that when the driving member is driven by the driver into a workpiece, a head of the driving member r...