US Patent Issued to MAKITA on Sept. 8 for "Power tool having a hammer mechanism" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,515, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).

"Power tool having a hammer mechanism" was invented by Yoshiro Tada (Anjo, Japan), Masanori Furusawa (Anjo, Japan) and Kanami Inagaki (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool includes a motor, a hammer mechanism, a housing, and a handle. The motor has a motor shaft that rotates around a motor axis. The hammer mechanism includes a cylinder and a hammer element and is configured to convert rotary motion of the motor shaft to linear motion of the hammer element along a prescribed hammer axis by utilizing action of an air spring of an air chamber. The hou...