US Patent Issued to Max on June 16 for "Binding machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,891, issued on June 16, was assigned to Max Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Binding machine" was invented by Hiroki Ishiguro (Tokyo), Taichi Yamazaki (Tokyo), Shigeki Shindou (Tokyo), Yusuke Yoshida (Tokyo), Tetsuro Fukuda (Tokyo), Shingo Takahashi (Tokyo) and Makoto Kosuge (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A binding machine includes a magazine configured to accommodate a wire, a wire feeding portion configured to feed the wire accommodated in the magazine, a curl forming portion configured to constitute an annular feeding path for winding the wire fed by the wire feeding portion around a binding object, and a binding portion configured to tw...