Patents Assigned to Max Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 12384008
    Abstract: A fastening tool includes: a bit holding portion which detachably holds a driver bit and is configured to rotate in a circumferential direction of the driver bit and move in an axial direction of the driver bit; a motor configured to move the bit holding portion along the axial direction; and a control unit configured to control a position of the bit holding portion along the axial direction by the number of rotations of the motor. The control unit is configured to execute an initialization operation of setting a standby position of the bit holding portion along the axial direction, and control a position of the bit holding portion along the axial direction from the standby position by the number of rotations of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Osawa, Kazuya Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 12378089
    Abstract: A binding tape (10) includes an intermediate layer (11), and a first surface layer (16) covering one surface of the intermediate layer (11). The intermediate layer (11) has a plurality of first linear members (12) arranged side by side at an angle with respect to a longitudinal direction (D1) of the binding tape (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Taguchi, Mizuki Kataniwa
  • Patent number: 12370596
    Abstract: A reinforcing steel bar binding machine is provided with: a second body part; a cover guide part attached to the second body part; and a first contact member (a second contact member) that is abutted against a reinforcing steel bar and moved. The cover guide part is provided with: a first guide recessed part and a second guide recessed part that movably guide the first contact member; and a first contact part against which the reinforcing steel bar is abutted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Morijiri, Nobutaka Tashima, Shinpei Sugihara
  • Patent number: 12358315
    Abstract: A long medium has a start end, a final end, a first side edge connecting the start end and the final end, and a second side edge connecting the start end and the final end. The long medium includes first reference holes formed at a first pitch along the first side edge, N pieces of first conveyance holes formed along the first side edge at a second pitch smaller than the first pitch, and formed between adjacent first reference holes, in which N is a positive integer, first index holes formed along the first side edge at a third pitch smaller than the first pitch and respectively positioned in first index hole forming areas each set between the adjacent first reference holes, and second reference holes formed at the first pitch along the second side edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Ehara, Kazuya Igata, Takuya Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 12358670
    Abstract: A binding machine includes: a magazine configured to hold a staple that has a first leg portion and a second leg portion and that is opened between the first leg portion and the second leg portion; a driver configured to push the staple held in the magazine in a forward direction with an opening portion facing forward and configured to move the first leg portion and the second leg portion in the forward direction of the magazine; and a displacement portion configured to bind an object to be bound inserted between the first leg portion and the second leg portion by displacing the first leg portion moved in the forward direction of the magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Asai
  • Patent number: 12350793
    Abstract: A fastening tool includes: a bit holding portion which detachably holds a driver bit and is configured to rotate in a circumferential direction of the driver bit and move in an axial direction of the driver bit; a motor configured to perform at least one of rotation of the bit holding portion and movement of the bit holding portion along the axial direction; and a control unit configured to control a position of the bit holding portion along the axial direction by a rotation amount of the motor. The control unit is configured to stop rotation of the motor based on a load applied to the motor rotated in one direction of moving the bit holding portion in a direction approaching a fastening target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Osawa, Kazuya Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 12331534
    Abstract: A binding machine includes a first main body, a second main body and a bridge part. The first main body houses a binding part which twists a wire and a driving part which drives the binding part. The second main body is provided with a handle part including an operation trigger. The bridge part connects the first main body and the second main body to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Morijiri, Takashi Akiyama, Takanori Ban
  • Patent number: 12320134
    Abstract: It provides a reinforcing bar binding machine capable of surely wrapping and binding a wire to a binding object. The reinforcing bar binding machine includes a magazine in which two wires are housed so as to be drawable, a curl guide unit which winds the arranged wires around the reinforcing bar, by the operation of feeding the parallel wires at the curl guide unit to wind around the reinforcing bar, a wire feeding unit which to wrap around the reinforcing bar with the wires wound around the reinforcing bar, and a binding unit which twists a intersecting portion between one end side and the other end side of the wire wound around the reinforcing bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Itagaki, Takeshi Morijiri, Tatsunori Sera, Takuya Chigira, Kazuhisa Takeuchi, Sadayoshi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 12297065
    Abstract: An image forming system including an image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a sheet, a post-processing apparatus comprising a binding device configured to bind the sheet output from the image forming apparatus, and a control unit configured to control the binding device. The binding device is capable of executing binding processing via a staple forming process of forming a staple and moving the staple toward a striking-out position and a staple striking-out process of striking out the staple at the striking-out position. The control unit is configured to control the binding device to repeat multiple times the staple forming process without undergoing the staple striking-out process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Kenjo
  • Patent number: 12285848
    Abstract: A handheld tool includes a magazine accommodating a plurality of fasteners coupled by a coupling band, a lid portion opening and closing the magazine, a nose portion having an injection passage and an injection port, a supply passage connecting the injection passage and the magazine for feeding the fasteners coupled by the coupling band to the injection passage; and a driver bit separating the fasteners of the injection passage from the coupling band and driving the fasteners toward the injection port. The nose portion has a discharge port for discharging the coupling band from which the fasteners are separated. The injection passage and the discharge port have an opening portion on a lateral side perpendicular to the extending direction of the injection passage, and the lid portion exposes and covers the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuya Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 12280483
    Abstract: A pneumatic tool includes a drive mechanism configured to be driven by compressed air supplied from an air intake; an air chamber configured to store the compressed air supplied; and a pressure adjusting mechanism configured to adjust the pressure of the compressed air in the air chamber. The pressure adjusting mechanism includes a valve body configured to open and close a flow path that communicates the air intake and the air chamber with each other; an elastic body configured to exert an urging force to the valve body to open the flow path; and a pressure receiving member configured to receive air pressure in the air chamber and exert an urging force in a direction of closing the flow path to the elastic body. The elastic body is arranged at a position closer to the air intake than the valve body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takuma Yoshida
  • Patent number: 12240087
    Abstract: A handheld tool includes a nose portion having an injection passage for a fastener, a magazine accommodating the fastener and located in a direction intersecting with the injection passage, a magazine cap portion opening and closing the magazine by a tip portion rotating in a direction separating from and approaching the magazine with a base end portion as a fulcrum, and a door portion rotatably coupled to the tip portion via a coupling shaft. The nose portion includes an engaging portion engageable with the door portion. The door portion is configured to, in a state where the magazine cap portion is opened, bent toward the magazine with the coupling shaft as a fulcrum, and in a state where the magazine cap portion is closed, extend linearly and engage with the engaging portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuya Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 12215511
    Abstract: A binding machine comprises a cutting portion which cuts the wire, a fixed blade in which a first wire passage through which the wire passes is formed; and a movable blade in which a second wire passage through which the wire passes is formed. The movable blade includes a blade portion provided on one side of the second wire passage and a passage forming member provided on the other side of the second wire passage, the second wire passage includes a guiding portion for guiding the wire after cutting in a movement when the movable blade moves from the movement finish position to the standby position, and the guiding portion is protrudes in a direction of the guide portion and blocks a portion between the movable blade and the guide portion in a non-wire-passing-through manner when the movable blade moves to the standby position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Kawazoe
  • Patent number: 12214457
    Abstract: A fastening tool includes: a cylindrical rotation guide member extending in one direction and rotatably supported; a holding member having an opening in which a driver bit is detachably inserted, and configured to move in an axis direction along the extension direction of the rotation guide member inside the rotation guide member and to rotate together with the rotation guide member; and a moving member configured to move the holding member in a front and rear direction along the rotation guide member; a rotation member; and a transmission member connected to the moving member and having flexibility to be wound along an outer periphery of the rotation member. The rotation member is rotated by the motor, so that the moving member is moved with the transmission member in one direction in which a screw engaged with the driver bit is pressed against a fastening target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michio Yamashita, Yusuke Osawa, Kazuya Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 12186844
    Abstract: A fastening tool includes: a cylindrical rotation guide member extending in one direction and rotatably supported; a holding member having an opening to which a driver bit is detachably inserted, and configured to move in an axis direction along the extension direction of the rotation guide member inside the rotation guide member and to rotate together with the rotation guide member; and a moving member configured to move the holding member in a front and rear direction along the rotation guide member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michio Yamashita, Yusuke Osawa, Kazuya Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 12186843
    Abstract: A fastening tool including a bit holding unit configured to hold a driver bit so as to be rotatable and to be movable in an axis direction, a first drive unit having a first motor configured to rotate the driver bit held by the bit holding unit, and a second drive unit having a second motor configured to move the driver bit held by the bit holding unit along the axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michio Yamashita, Yusuke Osawa, Kazuya Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 12179328
    Abstract: A staple removing device includes a placing table on which a sheet bundle bound by a staple is placed; a removing part including a tip end portion that can be inserted between the sheet bundle and the staple and is configured to be movable along the placing table between a standby position and a removal position and to be inserted between the sheet bundle and the staple when the tip end portion moves to the removal position; a first motor configured to move the removing part; and an accommodation part configured to accommodate the staple removed by the removing part, wherein the first motor is located below the removing part when the tip end portion is at the standby position, and the accommodation part is located below the removing part when the tip end portion is at the removal position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Yagi, Katsuya Hakozaki
  • Patent number: D1085162
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaki Sato
  • Patent number: D1082474
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi Hotta
  • Patent number: D1082475
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi Hotta