Patents by Inventor Kazusa FUKUDA

Kazusa FUKUDA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230364763
    Abstract: An elastic member is disposed between an internal gear of a gear train and a gear housing. A force is applied to the gear train when a lift mechanism is activated. The force is received and absorbed by the elastic member, thereby reducing the amount of force received by the gear housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaya NAGAO, Norikazu BABA, Shun KURIKI, Kazusa FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20230364762
    Abstract: A driving tool includes a piston configured to move in a driving direction due to gas pressure, and a driver configured to move integrally with the piston to strike a fastener. The driver includes a plurality of rack teeth formed along a driving direction. The driving tool includes a wheel having a plurality of engaging portions to engage the plurality of rack teeth at its outer circumference. The driver is moved in a counter-driving direction as the wheel rotates. The plurality of engaging portions of the wheel includes at least one advancing/retracting engaging portion configured to move with respect to a shaft member of the wheel. The driver has a tooth groove between adjacent rack teeth of the plurality of rack teeth. One tooth groove is configured to receive the advancing/retracting engaging portion and has a depth deeper than at least one other tooth groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norikazu BABA, Shun KURIKI, Kazusa FUKUDA, Masaya NAGAO
  • Publication number: 20230364761
    Abstract: A preceding engaging portion preceding a last engaging portion has a smaller diameter or is positioned further inward than the last engaging portion. Because of this configuration, an engagement of the preceding engaging portion with respect to a last engaged portion becomes more easily disengageable in comparison to the last engaging portions. When the preceding engaging portion disengages from the last engaged portion, the driver moves downward to a standby position. Accordingly, an engagement of the engaging portions with the engaged portions can be properly corrected, such that the last engaging portion engages the last engaged portion at the standby position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norikazu BABA, Shun KURIKI, Kazusa FUKUDA, Masaya NAGAO
  • Publication number: 20230129001
    Abstract: A driving tool comprises a cylinder extending in an up-down direction and a piston that moves downward within the cylinder due to a compressed gas to drive a driving member. The driving tool further comprises a main body housing that houses the cylinder and a grip extending rearward from a rear surface of the main body housing. The driving tool further comprises an upper chamber that is provided above the cylinder and communicates with the cylinder. The driving tool further comprises an air chamber that extends downward from the upper chamber and that extends only in an area on a right or left side of the main body housing with respect to both an axis center of the cylinder and an axis center of the grip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazusa FUKUDA, Masaya NAGAO, Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE, Toshiro HIRAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11472013
    Abstract: A driving tool includes a tool body, a flywheel, a driver and a pressing mechanism. The pressing mechanism is disposed on a side opposite to the flywheel across the driver in a facing direction in which the flywheel and the driver face each other. The pressing mechanism includes a spring mechanism and a pressing roller. The spring mechanism includes a first spring part and a second spring part and is configured to be displaced along with forward movement of the driver. The pressing roller is configured to press the driver toward the flywheel in the facing direction by a biasing force of the spring mechanism in a process of the forward movement of the driver, to thereby enable transmission of the rotational energy to the driver. A spring constant of the whole spring mechanism varies according to an amount of displacement of the whole spring mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Akiba, Kazusa Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11325233
    Abstract: A nailing machine includes a tool body, a flywheel (40), a driver (3), a pressing mechanism and a return mechanism. The pressing mechanism includes a spring mechanism and a pressing roller (87). The pressing roller (87) is supported to be rotatable around a rotation axis (A2) and movable in a left-right direction, and configured to press the driver (3) toward the flywheel (40) by a biasing force of the spring mechanism in a nail-driving process in which the driver (3) moves from an initial position to a nail-driving position, to thereby enable transmission of the rotational energy to the driver (3). The pressing mechanism is configured such that the position of the pressing roller (87) relative to the driver (3) changes in the left-right direction between the nail-driving process and a return process, thereby making it impossible for the pressing roller (87) to press the driver (3) in the return process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Akiba, Kazusa Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20200298387
    Abstract: A driving tool includes a tool body, a flywheel, a driver and a pressing mechanism. The pressing mechanism is disposed on a side opposite to the flywheel across the driver in a facing direction in which the flywheel and the driver face each other. The pressing mechanism includes a spring mechanism and a pressing roller. The spring mechanism includes a first spring part and a second spring part and is configured to be displaced along with forward movement of the driver. The pressing roller is configured to press the driver toward the flywheel in the facing direction by a biasing force of the spring mechanism in a process of the forward movement of the driver, to thereby enable transmission of the rotational energy to the driver. A spring constant of the whole spring mechanism varies according to an amount of displacement of the whole spring mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka AKIBA, Kazusa FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20200276691
    Abstract: A driving tool includes a tool body, a flywheel, a driver, a pressing mechanism and a return mechanism. The pressing mechanism includes a first biasing part and at least one roller. The at least one roller is supported to be rotatable around a second rotation axis extending in parallel to a first rotation axis of the flywheel and to be movable in an extending direction of the second rotation axis. The pressing mechanism is configured such that a position of the at least one roller relative to the driver changes in the extending direction of the second rotation axis between a nail-driving process and a return process, thereby making the at least one roller to be incapable of pressing the driver in the return process. A nailing machine includes a tool body, a flywheel (40), a driver (3), a pressing mechanism and a return mechanism. The pressing mechanism includes a spring mechanism and a pressing roller (87).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka AKIBA, Kazusa FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 10410811
    Abstract: A power tool (1) includes an electric motor (2) as a drive source and a start switch (20; 61) that starts the electric motor (2) and is lockable in an ON position in a lock-ON state. An electromagnetic actuator (30; 40; 50; 60) pushes out or pulls in an actuation pin (30a; 40a; 50a; 60a) with respect to a body of the electromagnetic actuator (30; 40; 50; 60) in response to cutting off of a supply of electrical current to the power tool (1). The pushed-out or pulled-in actuation pin, directly or indirectly, disengages the start switch (20; 61) from the lock-ON state and/or prevents the start switch (20; 61) from being shifted into the lock-ON state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takamasa Hanai, Hikaru Sunabe, Satoshi Ninagawa, Shin Nakamura, Masatoshi Nakahama, Kazusa Fukuda, Kenichi Miyata
  • Publication number: 20170125192
    Abstract: A power tool (1) includes an electric motor (2) as a drive source and a start switch (20; 61) that starts the electric motor (2) and is lockable in an ON position in a lock-ON state. An electromagnetic actuator (30; 40; 50; 60) pushes out or pulls in an actuation pin (30a; 40a; 50a; 60a) with respect to a body of the electromagnetic actuator (30; 40; 50; 60) in response to cutting off of a supply of electrical current to the power tool (1). The pushed-out or pulled-in actuation pin, directly or indirectly, disengages the start switch (20; 61) from the lock-ON state and/or prevents the start switch (20; 61) from being shifted into the lock-ON state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Takamasa HANAI, Hikaru SUNABE, Satoshi NINAGAWA, Shin NAKAMURA, Masatoshi NAKAHAMA, Kazusa FUKUDA, Kenichi MIYATA