ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,902, issued on March 31, was assigned to Max Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Feeding speed control for a binding machine" was invented by Takeshi Morijiri (Tokyo) and Takahiro Ito (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 unit configured to feed the wire in a forward direction in which the wire is pulled out from the magazine and to the magazine, a drive unit configured to drive the wire feeding unit, a curl forming unit configured to form a path along which the wire fed in the forward direction is to be wound around an object, a binding unit configured to twist t...