ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,428, issued on March 31, was assigned to Max Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Lock regulation mechanism for a binding machine" was invented by Takeshi Morijiri (Tokyo), Osamu Itagaki (Tokyo) and Shinpei Sugihara (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A binding machine includes a magazine including an accommodation part configured to accommodate a reel, and a lid part configured to cover the accommodation part to be openable and closable, a wire feeding unit configured to feed the wire in a forward direction in which the wire is pulled out from the magazine and in a reverse direction in which the wire is pulled back to the magazine, a curl forming ...