Abstract: A staple includes a crown section including a first curve, a second curve, a third curve, a first straight segment extending between the first curve and the second curve, and a second straight segment extending between the first curve and the third curve. The second curve and the third curve define, respectively, opposite ends of the crown section. The staple includes a pair of leg sections extending from the opposite ends of the crown section.

Abstract: A circular saw may include a shoe and a blade guard assembly coupled to the shoe, the blade guard assembly including an upper blade guard and a lower blade guard movable between an extended position and a retracted position. A circular saw may include a housing assembly coupled to the blade guard assembly, an output shaft, and a blade clamp coupled to output shaft, the blade clamp configured to hold the saw blade. A circular saw may include a brushless direct current (DC) motor positioned within the housing assembly and operable to rotate the output shaft. A circular saw may include an electronic controller configured to perform a field weakening operation on the brushless DC motor.

Abstract: A fastener driver includes a magazine having a latch member and a pusher slidably coupled to the magazine. The pusher includes a body and a lever movably coupled to the body. The body is configured to contact one of the fasteners for biasing the fasteners toward a nosepiece. The lever includes a first end and a second end opposite the first end. A spring is configured to bias the first end of the lever away from the body of the pusher. The first end of the lever is configured to selectively engage the latch member when the pusher is moved toward a second end of the magazine for retaining the pusher in a rearward position. The second end of the lever is movable by a user for releasing the engagement between the first end of the lever and the latch member.

Abstract: A staple includes a crown section including a first curve, a second curve, a third curve, a first straight segment extending between the first curve and the second curve, and a second straight segment extending between the first curve and the third curve. The second curve and the third curve define, respectively, opposite ends of the crown section. The staple includes a pair of leg sections extending from the opposite ends of the crown section.

Abstract: A staple includes a crown section having diamond shaped with a first curve, a second curve, and a third curve representing three points of a diamond. The crown section having opposite ends. A pair of leg sections extend from the opposite ends of the crown section.

Abstract: A powered staple driver includes a magazine configured to receive staples and a nosepiece having a staple driving channel from which consecutive staples from the magazine are driven, the staple driving channel extending along a driving axis. The magazine obliquely extends from the nosepiece in both a first plane containing the driving axis and a second plane that is perpendicular to the driving axis.

Abstract: A staple includes a crown section having diamond shaped with a first curve, a second curve, and a third curve representing three points of a diamond. The crown section having opposite ends. A pair of leg sections extend from the opposite ends of the crown section.

Abstract: A staple collation includes a first staple, an identical second staple adjacent the first staple, and an adhesive material coupling the first staple to the second staple. Each of the first staple and the second staple includes a crown section having opposite ends and a pair of leg sections extending from the opposite ends of the crown section. The second staple is offset from the first staple in a first, lateral direction, and the second staple is offset from the first staple in a second, vertical direction that is perpendicular to the lateral direction.

Abstract: A powered staple driver includes a magazine configured to receive staples and a nosepiece having a staple driving channel from which consecutive staples from the magazine are driven, the staple driving channel extending along a driving axis. The magazine obliquely extends from the nosepiece in both a first plane containing the driving axis and a second plane that is perpendicular to the driving axis.

Abstract: A staple collation includes a first staple, an identical second staple adjacent the first staple, and an adhesive material coupling the first staple to the second staple. Each of the first staple and the second staple includes a crown section having opposite ends and a pair of leg sections extending from the opposite ends of the crown section. The second staple is offset from the first staple in a first, lateral direction, and the second staple is offset from the first staple in a second, vertical direction that is perpendicular to the lateral direction.