Patents Assigned to Apex Mfg. Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11660736
    Abstract: A stapler is provided, including: a main body, including a front end portion, the front end portion including a staple outlet and a plate member, the plate member including a concave adjacent to the staple outlet; a holder, switchably disposed on the main body, including a plurality of notches with different sizes and a plurality of first positioning portions; and a positioning member, disposed on the main body, releasably positioned with one of the plurality of first positioning portions so that one of the plurality of notches corresponds to the concave in a front to rear direction, for receiving a portion of a cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jing-Li Wang
  • Patent number: 11577374
    Abstract: A labor-saving stapler is provided, including: a housing, having a nail outlet; a striker, disposed within the housing and movable between a preset position away from the nail outlet and a nailing position near the nail outlet; an energy-accumulating mechanism, including a connection portion connected to the housing and a connection end cooperating with the striker; an operable mechanism, movably connected to the housing and having a depression portion abutable against the energy-accumulating mechanism; a limitation mechanism, connected to the housing, the striker being positionably restricted by the limitation mechanism; wherein when the striker is in a preset position and positionably restricted by the limitation mechanism, the energy-accumulating mechanism is depressible by the depression portion to be in a energy-accumulating state, and when the striker is free of restriction by the limitation mechanism, the energy-accumulating mechanism actuates the striker to move toward the nailing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jing-Li Wang
  • Patent number: 11420313
    Abstract: A staple gun includes a housing, a striking member, a driving mechanism and a locking mechanism. The housing includes a staple outlet. The striking member is disposed on the housing. The driving mechanism includes a pressure bar which is rotatably assembled with the housing. The locking mechanism includes a locking member. The locking member is assembled with the housing and is rotatable about an axial direction to be in a locking position or a releasing position. The locking member has a stopping bump formed radially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jing-Li Wang
  • Patent number: 11325234
    Abstract: A hammer tacker is provided, including a grip portion and a body portion; a magazine, including a rail, at least partially received in the housing, being movable relative to the housing between a stapling position and a staple-installing position, including an outlet disposed at a front end of the body portion; a biasing mechanism, including a push member movably mounted to the rail and a constant force spring which is rollable, the constant force spring being positionally attached to the rail through a connection portion and located at a front end of the magazine, and the constant force spring being attached to an inner face of the push member, the push member being movable to be correspondingly above or beyond the connection portion; a striking mechanism, mounted to the body portion and configured to strike at least one staple installed in the magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chih-Wei Hu
  • Patent number: 11285593
    Abstract: An electric stapler includes a main body, a handle, a striking assembly, and a safety mechanism between the main body and the handle. The handle is movable with respect to the main body between an original position and an unlock position. The striking assembly includes a striking mechanism for striking the staple out and a trigger switch on the handle for triggering the striking mechanism. The trigger switch has a strikable state and a locking state. When the handle is at the original position, the safety mechanism is at a locking mode to make the trigger switch at the locking state. When the handle is at the unlock position, the safety mechanism is at an unlock mode to make the trigger switch at the strikable state. An angle between the moving direction of the handle and the striking direction is smaller than 90 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jing-Li Wang
  • Patent number: 11148269
    Abstract: A stapler is provided, including: a main body, a striking mechanism, a staple straightening mechanism and a linkage mechanism. The main body includes an inner space and a staple outlet. The striking mechanism is disposed in the inner space and includes a striking member configured to strike a staple and a driving member by which the striking member is driven to move relative to the staple outlet. The staple straightening mechanism is disposed on the main body and includes an aperture corresponding to the staple outlet, at least one abutting member being movable within the aperture and a force accumulating assembly which is movable toward the aperture. The linkage mechanism is disposed in the inner space. The driving member and the force accumulating assembly are connected with the linkage mechanism and comovable with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jing-Li Wang
  • Patent number: 11148270
    Abstract: A stapler is provided, including: a main body, a striking mechanism and a staple straightening mechanism. The main body includes an inner space and a staple outlet. The striking mechanism is disposed in the inner space and includes a striking member configured to strike a staple and a driving member by which the striking member is driven to move relative to the staple outlet. The staple straightening mechanism is disposed on the main body and includes an aperture corresponding to the staple outlet, at least one abutting member being movable within the aperture and a force accumulating assembly which is drivable by the driving member. The force accumulating assembly includes a blocking portion and a force accumulating member which is releasably blockable with the blocking portion, and the force accumulating member is movable toward the aperture to strike the at least one abutting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jing-Li Wang
  • Patent number: 11090792
    Abstract: A staple gun includes a housing, a striking member, a force-accumulating assembly, a driving mechanism and an adjusting mechanism. The housing includes a staple outlet. The strike member is disposed on the housing. The force-accumulating assembly is movably disposed on the housing and engaged with the striking member. The force-accumulating assembly includes two accumulating members. The driving mechanism includes a pressing lever which is rotatably disposed on the housing and an engaging portion. The adjusting mechanism is disposed on the housing and assembled with the force-accumulating assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jing-Li Wang
  • Patent number: 11065751
    Abstract: A labor-saving stapler is provided, including: a housing, having a nail outlet; a striker, disposed within the housing and movable between a preset position away from the nail outlet and a nailing position near the nail outlet; an energy-accumulating mechanism, including a connection portion connected to the housing and a connection end cooperating with the striker; an operable mechanism, movably connected to the housing and having a depression portion abutable against the energy-accumulating mechanism; a limitation mechanism, connected to the housing, the striker being positionably restricted by the limitation mechanism; wherein when the striker is in a preset position and positionably restricted by the limitation mechanism, the energy-accumulating mechanism is depressible by the depression portion to be in a energy-accumulating state, and when the striker is free of restriction by the limitation mechanism, the energy-accumulating mechanism actuates the striker to move toward the nailing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jing-Li Wang
  • Patent number: 11065752
    Abstract: A staple gun is provided, including: a main body, including a bottom side, and an abutting portion, a staple outlet and a notch which are disposed on the bottom side; a staple magazine, being withdrawably received within the main body; a lock mechanism, including a pressed member disposed on the staple magazine and having a restricting portion movable between a restricting position and a releasing position; wherein when the restricting portion is in the restricting position, the pressed member is located within the notch, the restricting portion is blocked with the abutting portion and the staple magazine is non-withdrawable from the main body; when the pressed member is pressed and moved toward an interior of the main body and the restricting portion is in the releasing position, the restricting portion is unlocked from the abutting portion and the staple magazine is withdrawable from the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Wei Hu, Pei-Hung Cheng
  • Patent number: 11007630
    Abstract: A stapler includes a main body, a magazine, a striker, and a driving portion. The main body encloses a receiving space and has an opening at the bottom of the front end thereof. The opening communicates with the receiving space. The magazine is arranged in the main body for receiving staples. The striker is arranged at the front end of the main body and is linearly slidable above the opening vertically. The driving portion is disposed on the main body and is connected to the striker to drive it to move downward to strike the staple out. The striker has a bottom face oriented frontward and downward so that an angle ranged from 3-15 degrees is defined between the bottom face and the horizontal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Apex Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Rong-Yu Wang
  • Patent number: 10946547
    Abstract: An electric striking device is provided, including a main body and a striking unit. The main body includes an interior space and an outlet opening; the striking unit is disposed in the interior space, the striking unit includes an electromagnetic device, a driving member, a steering mechanism and an impacting member, the electromagnetic device drives the driving member to move along a direction perpendicular to an open direction of the outlet opening and further drive the impacting member to move along the open direction of the outlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Wei Hu, Jing-Li Wang
  • Patent number: 10894308
    Abstract: The stapler includes a main body, a trigger, a striking mechanism, and a stopping plate. The main body has an outlet at a first end portion. The trigger is pivotally connected to the main body with an end, and the other end extends toward the first end portion for being pressed toward the main body. The striking mechanism includes a striker at the first end portion and a releasing unit for releasing the striker. The trigger switches the releasing unit between a release mode and an accumulating mode so that the striker can move toward the outlet. The striker has a concave face facing the outlet for striking a staple unit. The stopping plate is disposed on the first end portion and is for the staple unit to abut against horizontally. The stopping plate has at least one recess at an end thereof facing the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chih-Wei Hu
  • Patent number: 10843319
    Abstract: A positioning structure of stapler handle includes a buckle assembly and a buckle member. The buckle assembly includes a first coupling portion and a pushing unit connected together. The buckle member includes a first second coupling portion and a pushed unit connected together. The first coupling portion is adapted for being coupled with the second coupling portion. The pushed unit is located at the movement path of the buckle assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chia-Tse Chen, Pei-Hung Cheng
  • Patent number: 10639779
    Abstract: A magazine assembly and a stapler including the same are provided. The magazine assembly includes a base and a rail assembly. The base has a first end portion and a second end portion. A direction from the second end portion toward the first end portion is defined as a first direction. The rail assembly is disposed on the base and adapted for a staple unit to movably abut thereagainst along the first direction. The rail assembly includes a first rail and a second rail which are separate. A first side wall of the first rail has at least one guiding portion extending in the first direction. Each guiding portion is adapted for a head of a T-shaped staple to slidably engage therewith along the first direction. The second rail is adapted for a U-shaped staple to abut thereagainst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jing-Li Wang, Py-Yi Chang
  • Patent number: 10639778
    Abstract: A magazine assembly and a stapler including the same are provided. The magazine assembly includes a main body and a staple-pushing mechanism. The main body has a seat body and at least one rail, the seat body has a first end portion and a second end portion, a connection of the first and second end portions is defined as a moving path, and the at least one rail is disposed on the seat body. The staple-pushing mechanism is arranged on the main body, the staple-pushing mechanism includes a staple-pushing member and a constant force spring, and the staple-pushing member is driven to move toward the first end portion via the constant force spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jing- Li Wang, Py-Yi Chang
  • Patent number: 10632603
    Abstract: An anvil piece of a stapler is provided, including a main body, a crimp groove unit recessed on the main body and including at least one crimp groove, and an export unit. Each said crimp groove is for receiving a leg of a staple and has a blocking face which extends along a guiding path, and each said blocking face is for blocking the leg and making the leg bend along the guiding path; the export unit is recessed on the main body and communicates with the crimp groove unit on an extraction direction, the extraction direction is transverse to the guiding path and away from the crimp groove unit, the export unit includes at least exporting groove, each said exporting groove has an exporting face, and each said exporting face is for the leg which is bent to abuttingly slide therealong.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chih-Wei Hu
  • Patent number: 10576614
    Abstract: A stapler is provided, including: a main body, having a front end and a rear end; a magazine, disposed in the main body having an outlet end; a striker, disposed in the main body and located between the front end and the outlet end along the longitudinal direction; a driving mechanism, connected to the striker to optionally drive the striker to strike the staple; a pressing element, located in the main body and between the striker and the outlet end along the longitudinal direction, the pressing element being movable between an original position and a pressed position, the original position being higher than the pressed position, the pressing element having a tendency to stay on the original position, when the pressing element is located on the pressed position, the pressing element presses the staples which are exposed outside the outlet end of the magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jing-Li Wang
  • Patent number: 10518398
    Abstract: A magazine assembly and a stapler including the same are provided. The magazine assembly includes a base and a rail assembly. The base has a first end portion and a second end portion. A direction from the second end portion toward the first end portion is defined as a first direction. The rail assembly is disposed on the base and adapted for a staple unit to slidably abut thereagainst along the first direction. The rail assembly includes a first rail and a second rail which are separate. A first side wall of the first rail has at least one guide portion extending in the first direction. Each guide portion is adapted for a head of a T-shaped staple to slidably engage therewithalong the first direction. The second rail is adapted for a U-shaped staple to abut thereagainst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jing-Li Wang, Py-Yi Chang
  • Patent number: 10307902
    Abstract: A stapler is provided, including: a main body, having a nail outlet and a cartridge, an opening of the cartridge communicating with the nail outlet; a nail guiding mechanism, including a guiding plate facing the opening and a biasing mechanism disposed between the main body and the guiding plate, the guiding plate having an upper end away from the nail outlet, the biasing mechanism abutting against the guiding plate and normally biasing the upper end toward the cartridge; a striker, movably disposed within the main body; an operable mechanism, movably connected to the main body, being operable to drive the striker to move toward the nail outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: APEX MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jing- Li Wang