US Patent Issued to Max on June 30 for "Binding machine and binding device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,385, issued on June 30, was assigned to Max Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Binding machine and binding device" was invented by Akira Kasahara (Tokyo) and Kenichi Arai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a binding machine, including: a wire feeding portion configured to feed a wire; a guide portion constituting a part of a path through which the wire fed by the wire feeding portion is to pass; a displacement portion configured to move the guide portion between a first position constituting the path and a second position retracted from the path; a driving portion configured to drive the displacement portion; and an accumulation...