Patents Assigned to Makita
  • Publication number: 20240106012
    Abstract: A battery pack in one aspect of the present disclosure includes a battery and a controller provided with a counter value. During discharge of the battery pack, the controller calculates an addition value in accordance with a total number of use of the battery pack under a specified condition. The controller updates the counter value by adding the addition value. The controller prohibits the discharge of the battery pack in response to the counter value reaching a protection threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadahiko KOBAYAKAWA, Hiroki UESUGI, Hayato KANO
  • Publication number: 20240106092
    Abstract: A battery pack may be configured to be attached to and detached from an electric device including a plurality of device-side terminals. The battery pack may include: an outer case; a battery cell; a circuit board; and a plurality of battery-side terminals. A first terminal of the plurality of battery-side terminals may include a clamp portion and a non-clamp portion. The clamp portion may be configured to receive a device-side terminal of the plurality of device-side terminals and clamp the device-side terminal from both sides. An inner surface of the clamp portion may be plated with a first metal. A part of a surface of the non-clamp portion may not be plated with the first metal. The first metal may be a pure metal that is a noble metal or a noble metal alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori OGURA, Tatsuya NAGAHAMA
  • Publication number: 20240100675
    Abstract: A hammer drill includes a housing inside which a motor, a tubular tool holder, a driving mechanism, a rotation conversion member, and an inner housing are disposed. The driving mechanism is configured to perform at least one of rotation actuation of the tool holder and hammering actuation of a bit. The inner housing supports the driving mechanism, supports the tool holder via a first bearing, and supports an output shaft via a second bearing. The inner housing is divided into a front housing holding the first bearing and a rear housing that is formed in a separate body from the front housing and holds the second bearing. The inner housing is formed by connecting the front housing to the rear housing in an axis line direction of the tool holder. A seal member sealing outside space of the inner housing inside the housing is disposed in the front housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MACHIDA, Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE
  • Publication number: 20240100666
    Abstract: An intended illumination area is illuminated with light. An electric work machine includes a motor including a rotor rotatable about a rotation axis extending in a front-rear direction, an output unit located frontward from the motor and operable under a rotational force from the rotor, a light emitter, and an optical member including at least one light receiver that receives light from the light emitter and a light guide surrounding at least a part of the output unit to allow light from the at least one light receiver to travel through the light guide. The light guide has a rear surface having at least one slit, and a front surface to allow emission of light traveling through the light guide and reflected at the at least one slit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Makoto CHIKARAISHI
  • Patent number: 11938593
    Abstract: A technique reduces an increase in the size of an impact tool. An impact tool includes a motor, a striker drivable by the motor, an anvil including an anvil shaft to receive a tip tool, and an anvil projection protruding radially outward from a rear end of the anvil shaft to be struck by the striker in a rotation direction, a hammer case accommodating the striker, a bearing held in the hammer case and surrounding the anvil shaft, a ring member at least partially facing a front surface of the anvil projection and in contact with a rear end face of the bearing, and a stopper engaging with the hammer case and the ring member to reduce moving of the ring member rearward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Kondo
  • Patent number: 11938607
    Abstract: A working machine includes a working part; a motor configured to drive the working part; a motor housing covering at least a part of the motor; an outer housing covering at least a part of the motor and at least a part of the motor housing; and a light emitter disposed at a part of the motor housing that is covered by the outer housing. The outer housing includes an opening at a part of the outer housing that faces the light emitter. The opening allows light emitted from the light emitter to pass through the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta Tominaga, Atsushi Murata
  • Patent number: 11938612
    Abstract: A side handle can be toollessly positioned on a tool body, and is attachable to power tools of multiple models and is highly versatile. A side handle is attachable to a side surface of a tool body included in a power tool. The side handle includes a rotation locking member attachable to the tool body in a manner of being restricted from rotating, and an operable portion operable to lock and unlock a position of the side handle relative to the rotation locking member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Eto, Norikazu Baba
  • Patent number: 11940143
    Abstract: A power tool includes a motor, an output shaft, a chip-on-board light emitting diode, and a light cover. The output shaft is rotated by a rotational force of the motor. The chip-on-board light emitting diode is disposed around the output shaft. The chip-on-board light emitting diode includes: a substrate having a circular ring portion; and an LED chip disposed on a front surface of the circular ring portion. The light cover is fixed to the substrate. The light cover includes: an inner cylindrical portion disposed radially inside with respect to the circular ring portion; and a light transmission portion through which light emitted from the LED chip passes. The inner cylindrical portion includes a cover slope that totally reflects light from the LED chip forward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Chikaraishi, Akihiro Hozumi, Yutaka Ogiso
  • Publication number: 20240097464
    Abstract: An accommodating box may include: a case; and a plurality of battery attaching units supported by the case. Each of the battery packs may include an engagement member configured to engage with the electrical device when the battery pack is attached to the electrical device, engagement between the battery pack and the electrical device being released by a user's operation on the engagement member. Each of the battery attaching units may include: a terminal member unit configured to be electrically connected to one of the battery packs when the battery pack is attached to the battery attaching unit; and a holding member that holds the terminal member unit. The holding member may not be engaged with the engagement member of the battery pack when the battery pack is attached to the battery attaching unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira NIWA
  • Publication number: 20240091914
    Abstract: An electric power tool in one aspect of the present disclosure includes a motor, an output shaft, a drive circuit, a rotation controller, a calculator, and a deceleration controller. The output shaft is configured to attach a tool bit thereto, and be rotated by the motor. The rotation controller rotates the output shaft to thereby loosen a fastener from a fastened material. The calculator increases a determination value in accordance with a lapse of time from a first timing, and varies a rate of increase in the determination value in accordance with a speed parameter. The deceleration controller decelerates or stops the motor based on the determination value having reached a threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shu ISAKA, Itsuku KATO
  • Patent number: 11932128
    Abstract: A charge/discharge device includes an electrical energy storage device, an electric power receiver, an electric power generator, electric power outputters, and a controller. The electric power receiver receives a charging power from a charger for charging an electric vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 11931859
    Abstract: A grinder includes a motor including an output shaft, a housing accommodating the motor, a switch, a brake member movable back and forth between a rear braking position and a front brake release position, a switch lever movable between an initial position and a depressed position, a sliding member slidable between a first position to move the brake member to the brake release position and a second position to move the brake member to the braking position to turn on the switch at the first position and turn off the switch at the second position, and a link member rotatable between a first rotational position to move the sliding member to the first position and a second rotational position to move the sliding member to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junya Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11931840
    Abstract: A dust collection cup includes a cylindrical attachment to cause a bit to extend through the attachment, a cylindrical dust collector located in front of the attachment to cause the bit to extend through the dust collector, a seal between the attachment and the dust collector and having a through-hole to receive the bit, and a connection port connectable to a dust collection hose and located on an outer circumferential surface of the attachment outward in a radial direction of the bit from the seal and rearward from the seal. The connection port has a distance in the radial direction of the bit from an axis of the attachment to an outermost position longer than a distance in the radial direction of the bit from the axis to a position on the outer circumferential surface of the attachment that is opposite to the outermost position from the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Machida
  • Patent number: D1018045
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunori Hattori, Yasutaka Hotta
  • Patent number: D1018236
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomonori Kawase
  • Patent number: D1018237
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomonori Kawase
  • Patent number: D1018446
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideyuki Taga
  • Patent number: D1019309
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kento Nakamura, Satoshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: D1019323
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xing Xu, Pengfei Yang
  • Patent number: D1020145
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomonori Kawase, Makoto Hotta