US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on June 23 for "Impact rotary tool, torque estimation method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,764, issued on June 23, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Impact rotary tool, torque estimation method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Masayuki Nakahara (Osaka, Japan) and Soichiro Yamada (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impact rotary tool includes a driver, a drive shaft, a hammer, an anvil, a travel distance measuring device, and a torque estimator. The driver is configured to perform a turning operation. The travel distance measuring device is configured to measure a parameter relating to a hammer travel distance through which on application of...