Patents by Inventor Toshihito Sakaba

Toshihito Sakaba 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).

  • Patent number: 8393512
    Abstract: A fastener driving tool includes a housing, a motor, a plunger, a spring, a drum, and one of a cable and a sheet member. The motor is provided in the housing. The plunger is provided in the housing for impacting a fastener in a fastener driving direction. The spring urges the plunger in the fastener driving direction. The drum is rotatably supported in the housing and is rotationally driven by the motor. The one of a cable and a sheet member is capable of being wound over the drum and has one end fixed to the drum and another end acting on the spring for transmitting a driving force of the motor to the spring. The spring is configured to accumulate a resilient energy therein for impacting the fastener by the plunger. The resilient energy of the spring is accumulated by forcible resilient deformation thereof as a result of winding of the one of the cable and the sheet member over the drum rotationally driven by the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tanimoto, Toshihito Sakaba, Hiroyuki Oda, Yoshihiro Nakano
  • Patent number: 8186553
    Abstract: A fastener driving tool providing a prolonged durability and stabilized fastener driving operation. The tool includes a housing 2, a motor 31 disposed in the housing 2, a plunger 63 disposed in the housing and driven by the motor 31 for driving a nail 1A, a cable member 52 connected to the plunger 63 for pulling the plunger 63 from its bottom dead center where the nail is driven into a workpiece to a top dead center, and a drum 51 driven by the motor for winding the cable member thereover. A cable member is wound over the drum by a length greater than a linear distance between the bottom dead center and the top dead center. The cable member is flexed or deflected due to own weight when the plunger is at the bottom dead center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tanimoto, Toshihito Sakaba, Hiroyuki Oda, Yoshihiro Nakano, Kenji Naganuma
  • Patent number: 7832610
    Abstract: A fastener driving tool includes a housing, a motor, a plunger, a spring, a power transmission mechanism, and an impact buffering portion. The motor is provided in the housing. The plunger is provided in the housing and impacts a fastener in one direction. The spring urges the plunger in the one direction. The power transmission mechanism connects the motor and the plunger for moving the plunger in another direction opposite to the one direction against an urging force of the spring. The impact buffering portion is provided in one of the power transmission mechanism and the plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tanimoto, Toshihito Sakaba, Hiroyuki Oda, Yoshihiro Nakano
  • Patent number: 7789281
    Abstract: An electric fastener driver having a compact size and simple construction. A driver segment provided with a rack is movably disposed in a housing. A flywheel is driven by a motor. A drive shaft is concentric with and integral with the flywheel. A coil spring is fixed to the drive shaft. A driven rotor is coaxial with the drive shaft and has one end portion serving as a spring seat portion positioned within the coil spring. A pinion is disposed at the driven rotor and is meshedly engaged with the rack. An urging section is disposed within the driven rotor. A ball is movably disposed in a through-hole formed in the driven rotor for urging an end portion of the coil spring by the urging section. A solenoid controls a protruding amount of the ball from the surface of the driven rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tanimoto, Chikai Yoshimizu, Hiroyuki Oda, Toshihito Sakaba, Shinki Ohtsu, Takashi Ueda, Yoshihiro Nakano
  • Publication number: 20100140316
    Abstract: A fastener driving tool providing a prolonged durability and stabilized fastener driving operation. The tool includes a housing 2, a motor 31 disposed in the housing 2, a plunger 63 disposed in the housing and driven by the motor 31 for driving a nail 1A, a cable member 52 connected to the plunger 63 for pulling the plunger 63 from its bottom dead center where the nail is driven into a workpiece to a top dead center, and a drum 51 driven by the motor for winding the cable member thereover. A cable member is wound over the drum by a length greater than a linear distance between the bottom dead center and the top dead center. The cable member is flexed or deflected due to own weight when the plunger is at the bottom dead center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tanimoto, Toshihito Sakaba, Hiroyuki Oda, Yoshihiro Nakano, Kenji Naganuma
  • Publication number: 20100102104
    Abstract: A fastener driving tool includes a housing, a motor, a plunger, a spring, a drum, and one of a cable and a sheet member. The motor is provided in the housing. The plunger is provided in the housing for impacting a fastener in a fastener driving direction. The spring urges the plunger in the fastener driving direction. The drum is rotatably supported in the housing and is rotationally driven by the motor. The one of a cable and a sheet member is capable of being wound over the drum and has one end fixed to the drum and another end acting on the spring for transmitting a driving force of the motor to the spring. The spring is configured to accumulate a resilient energy therein for impacting the fastener by the plunger. The resilient energy of the spring is accumulated by forcible resilient deformation thereof as a result of winding of the one of the cable and the sheet member over the drum rotationally driven by the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tanimoto, Toshihito Sakaba, Hiroyuki Oda, Yoshihiro Nakano
  • Patent number: 7578420
    Abstract: A drive machine which includes a housing, a motor disposed in the housing, a magazine which is attached to the housing and supplies a nail to a drive position, a plunger for driving the nail, a spring which impels and accelerates the plunger to the drive position by elastic force and a chain or belt which is driven by the motor to thus accumulate elastic energy in the spring. The chain has a projection which provides a first state where elastic energy is accumulated in the spring and a second state where the accumulated elastic energy is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tanimoto, Toshihito Sakaba, Hiroyuki Oda, Takashi Ueda, Yoshihiro Nakano
  • Publication number: 20090039136
    Abstract: An electric fastener driver having a compact size and simple construction. A driver segment provided with a rack is movably disposed in a housing. A flywheel is driven by a motor. A drive shaft is concentric with and integral with the flywheel. A coil spring is fixed to the drive shaft. A driven rotor is coaxial with the drive shaft and has one end portion serving as a spring seat portion positioned within the coil spring. A pinion is disposed at the driven rotor and is meshedly engaged with the rack. An urging section is disposed within the driven rotor. A ball is movably disposed in a through-hole formed in the driven rotor for urging an end portion of the coil spring by the urging section. A solenoid controls a protruding amount of the ball from the surface of the driven rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Hideyuki Tanimoto, Chikai Yoshimizu, Hiroyuki Oda, Toshihito Sakaba, Shinki Ohtsu, Takashi Ueda, Yoshihiro Nakano
  • Publication number: 20080237294
    Abstract: A fastener driving tool includes a housing, a motor, a plunger, a spring, a power transmission mechanism, and an impact buffering portion. The motor is provided in the housing. The plunger is provided in the housing and impacts a fastener in one direction. The spring urges the plunger in the one direction. The power transmission mechanism connects the motor and the plunger for moving the plunger in another direction opposite to the one direction against an urging force of the spring. The impact buffering portion is provided in one of the power transmission mechanism and the plunger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Hideyuki TANIMOTO, Toshihito Sakaba, Hiroyuki Oda, Yoshihiro Nakano
  • Publication number: 20080006672
    Abstract: A drive machine includes a housing; a motor disposed in the housing; a magazine which is attached to the housing and supplies a nail to a drive position; a plunger for driving the nail; a spring which impels and accelerates the plunger to the drive position by elastic force; and a chain which is driven by the motor, to thus accumulate elastic energy in the spring. The chain has a projection which provides a first state where elastic energy is accumulated in the spring and a second state where the accumulated elastic energy is released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Inventors: Hideyuki TANIMOTO, Toshihito Sakaba, Hiroyuki Oda, Takashi Ueda, Yoshihiro Nakano
  • Patent number: 4091981
    Abstract: A power driven percussion tool is provided with a rotatable magazine block formed with a plurality of bores about the axis of rotation of the magazine block and is loaded with fasteners such as rivets or nails respectively retained in the bores. When the magazine block is stepwise rotated about its axis the bores are successively brought into alignment with the direction in which the fastener can be driven by a reciprocating hammer. The percussion tool is further provided with safety means for disabling the tool when the tool is not in use or being re-loaded with fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1978
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Company, Limited
    Inventors: Seki Moriguchi, Tatsuo Innami, Akira Uno, Hiroki Orikasa, Toshihito Sakaba