Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka Machida
Yoshitaka Machida 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).
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Publication number: 20170335582Abstract: A rebar tying tool configured to tie plural rebars using a wire is disclosed herein. The rebar tying tool may include a reel supporting mechanism configured to switch between a first state of detachably supporting a reel on which the wire is wound and a second state of undetachably supporting the reel; a wire feeding mechanism configured to feed the wire from the reel; and an openable cover that at least partially covers at least one of the reel supporting mechanism and the wire feeding mechanism. The reel supporting mechanism may switch from the first state to the second state by a user operation of closing the cover, and/or may switch from the second state to the first state by a user operation of opening the cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2017Publication date: November 23, 2017Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka MACHIDA, Tadasuke MATSUNO
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Patent number: 9815185Abstract: A hammer drill (101) comprises a main body (103) which houses a driving motor (110) and a driving mechanism and a handle (109) which is movable to the main body (103). Further, a coil spring (160) which biases the handle (109) is provided. In a state that the coil spring (160) biases the handle (109), the handle (109) is moved against the main body (103) in a longitudinal direction of a hammer bit (119) and vibration transmission from the main body (103) to the handle (109) is prevented.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2014Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshitaka Machida
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Publication number: 20170320206Abstract: An impact tool has a body and a striking mechanism that drives a tool accessory in a prescribed longitudinal direction. The body has a first body element on which the striking mechanism is provided, and a second body element. The first body element and the second body element are connected via a cushioning mechanism. A vibration reducing mechanism is provided on the first body element.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2015Publication date: November 9, 2017Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka MACHIDA, Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE
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Patent number: 9782885Abstract: Reciprocating power tool is provided which is improved in vibration isolation of the handle. The reciprocating power tool has a tool body and a handle connected to the tool body. When an axial direction of a tool bit is defined as a longitudinal direction, the handle extends in a vertical direction crossing the longitudinal direction. Further, an upper region of the handle is connected to the tool body via an elastic member and a lower region of the handle is connected to the tool body via a support shaft that it can rotate around an axis of the support shaft in a transverse direction crossing both the longitudinal direction and the vertical direction with respect to the tool body. When the handle rotates around the support shaft with respect to the tool body, the elastic member reduces vibration which is caused in the tool body and transmitted to the handle.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyonobu Yoshikane, Yoshitaka Machida
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Publication number: 20170232565Abstract: To provide an improved technique for improving operability in an operation using a power tool with a dust collector attached thereto, a hammer drill to which a dust collector is attached has a body and a handle. The dust collector has a dust collecting part and a male plug. The dust collector is attached to the hammer drill by connecting the male plug to the handle of the hammer drill.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2015Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshitaka MACHIDA
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Patent number: 9724814Abstract: An impact tool performs a processing operation on a workpiece by carrying out an impact operation on a tool bit in a longitudinal axis direction. The impact tool includes a motor having a rotor and a stator, a tool main body housing the motor, a drive shaft parallel to a longitudinal axis of the tool bit and rotatably driven by the motor, and an oscillating member that is supported by the drive shaft and that carries out an oscillating movement in the axial direction of the drive shaft based on the rotational motion of the drive shaft. A tool drive mechanism is coupled to the oscillating member so that the oscillating movement of the oscillating member linearly moves the tool bit in the longitudinal axis direction. The motor is an outer rotor motor in which the rotor is disposed on an radially outer side of the stator.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2012Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyunobu Yoshikane, Yoshitaka Machida, Shinji Onoda, Hitoshi Iida
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Publication number: 20170203402Abstract: A dust collector for an electric power tool includes a main body case, a dust box, a sliding portion, and a dust collecting route. The main body case includes an exhaust port, the main body case being configured to be installed on an electric power tool. The dust box internally includes a filter. The sliding portion is disposed on the main body case. The sliding portion has a front end on which a nozzle with a suction opening is disposed. The sliding portion is slidable in a front-rear direction. The dust collecting route is from the suction opening to the exhaust port passing through the filter. The main body case includes a guiding portion through which the sliding portion passes, and the guiding portion allows the sliding portion to project rearward when the sliding portion slides.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2017Publication date: July 20, 2017Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka MACHIDA, Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE
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Publication number: 20170106517Abstract: A hammer drill has a body housing having a motor housing and a gear housing formed in one piece. An electric motor is fixed to the motor housing. A motion converting mechanism, a striking mechanism and a tool holder which form a striking mechanism part are housed in the gear housing so as to be movable with respect to the gear housing. During hammering operation, the striking mechanism part moves with respect to the gear housing under a biasing force of a coil spring, so that vibration caused by the hammering operation is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2015Publication date: April 20, 2017Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshitaka MACHIDA
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Patent number: 9553542Abstract: A hammer drill (100) comprises an electric motor (110), a piston (127) as a driving member and a controller (199) which controls and drives the electric motor (110). The piston (127) is reciprocated by rotation of the electric motor (110) and thereby a hammer bit (119) is driven in its longitudinal direction. The hammer bit (119) is moved forward in response to a forward movement stroke of the piston (127) and thereby a hammering operation is performed by the hammer bit (119). The controller (199) sets a duty ratio of a driving pulse signal which drives the electric motor (110) in the forward movement stroke of the piston (127) to be larger in order to prevent a reduction of a rotation speed of the electric motor (110) due to a load applied on the electric motor (110) during the forward movement stroke of the piston (127).Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka Machida, Yoshitaka Ichikawa
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Patent number: 9505095Abstract: A power tool comprising: a body (103); a dust catching attachment (120) attachable to the body (103); an engagement mechanism portion (151) which engages the body (103) with the dust catching attachment (120); and a spacing member that biases the body (103) and the dust catching attachment (120) in a state that the body (103) and the dust catching attachment (120) are engaged to each other by the engagement mechanism portion (151).Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2012Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka Machida, Masanori Furusawa
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Patent number: 9463566Abstract: An effective technique for increasing performance of an auxiliary handle which is attached to a power tool is provided. The auxiliary handle has a grip part, a grip holding part, a mounting part and a support part. The grip holding part is disposed between the grip part and the support part in a longitudinal direction of the auxiliary handle. When the auxiliary handle is attached to a power tool body, the grip part and the grip holding part are held so as to be movable with respect to the mounting part with the support part as a fulcrum.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2014Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyonobu Yoshikane, Yoshitaka Machida
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Patent number: 9314913Abstract: In a dust collection device that collects dust particles that an impact tool generates, disclosed is a feature that can accommodate the lengths of tool bits that are mounted to the impact tool when a machining operation is executed by exchanging tool bits of different lengths. The dust collection device collects dust that the impact tool generates and is attached to said impact tool that, in the lengthwise direction, linearly operates the tool bit mounted to the end region of a tool body. The dust collection device has a dust intake port that sucks dust, and said dust intake port can be repositioned in the lengthwise direction of the tool bit in accordance with the length in the lengthwise direction of said tool bit.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2011Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Ikuta, Ken Yamauchi, Takamasa Hanai, Yoshitaka Machida, Masanori Higashi, Tatsuo Nakashima, Yoshinori Sasaki
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Publication number: 20160075007Abstract: To provide a handle that is effective at achieving both vibration resistance and usability. A handle attached to a tool body of a power tool has: a grip portion; a connecting portion that connects to the tool body; elastic element interposing regions that are formed between the grip portion and the connecting portion; elastic elements disposed in the elastic element interposing regions; a powder filling region formed between the grip portion and connecting portion; and a plurality of powder bodies that fill the powder filling region.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2014Publication date: March 17, 2016Inventors: Tomoyuki KUTSUNA, Ryo SUNAZUKA, Yoshitaka MACHIDA, Masahiro ITO
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Publication number: 20150372633Abstract: A hammer drill (100) comprises an electric motor (110), a piston (127) as a driving member and a controller (199) which controls and drives the electric motor (110). The piston (127) is reciprocated by rotation of the electric motor (110) and thereby a hammer bit (119) is driven in its longitudinal direction. The hammer bit (119) is moved forward in response to a forward movement stroke of the piston (127) and thereby a hammering operation is performed by the hammer bit (119). The controller (199) sets a duty ratio of a driving pulse signal which drives the electric motor (110) in the forward movement stroke of the piston (127) to be larger in order to prevent a reduction of a rotation speed of the electric motor (110) due to a load applied on the electric motor (110) during the forward movement stroke of the piston (127).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Yoshitaka MACHIDA, Yoshitaka ICHIKAWA
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Patent number: 9193021Abstract: A power tool dust collecting device includes, in a housing in which a suction opening is protrudingly provided and on which a power tool is mountable, a motor chamber holding a motor having a brush that comes into sliding contact with a commutator of a rotor rotating integrally with an output shaft, a fan chamber housing a dust collecting fan attached to the output shaft of the motor, and a dust collecting chamber in which a filter, through which passes air sucked up from the suction opening due to rotation of the dust collecting fan in accordance with driving of the motor and which collects dust in the air, is mounted on an upstream side of the fan chamber. A cushioning member is interposed between an inner wall of the motor chamber and an outer peripheral surface of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2012Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka Machida, Kiyonobu Yoshikane
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Publication number: 20150328759Abstract: An electrical hammer (100) comprises a main housing (101), a hand grip (500) connected to the main housing (101) via a compression coil spring (321). In the electrical hammer (100), a hammer bit (119) is driven by a first motion converting mechanism (120) and thereby a hammering operation is performed. During the hammering operation, the hand grip (500) is moved against the main housing (101) in a state that biasing force of the compression coil spring (321) is applied on the hand grip (500). Further, the electrical hammer (100) comprises a second motion converting mechanism (220) which drives a counterweight (231).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Hiroki IKUTA, Yoshitaka MACHIDA, Masanori FURUSAWA
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Publication number: 20150328764Abstract: A power tool includes a motor which drives a tool bit, a tool body, a handle, and battery mount part, to which battery is detachably mounted. The power tool includes a plurality of battery mount parts, and the battery mount part, includes a battery engaging part with which the battery, can engage. The battery is mounted to the battery mount part by sliding against the battery engaging part in a crossing direction which crosses the longitudinal direction of the tool bit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE, Hajime TAKEUCHI, Yoshiro TADA, Masanori FURUSAWA, Masao MIWA, Shinji ONODA, Yoshitaka MACHIDA
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Publication number: 20150328760Abstract: A hammer drill (100) comprises a main housing (101), a hand grip (109) connected to the main housing (101) via a compression coil spring (171). In the hammer drill (100), a hammer bit (119) is driven by a motion converting mechanism (120), a hammering mechanism (140) and a rotation transmitting mechanism (150), and thereby performs a hammer-drill operation. During the hammer-drill operation, the hand grip (109) is moved against the main housing (101) in a state that biasing force of the compression coil spring (171) is applied. Further, the hammer drill (100) comprises a counterweight (190). The gravity center of the counterweight (190) is set to be lower than the upper edge of a cylinder (129) which is one component of the motion converting mechanism (120).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Hiroki IKUTA, Yoshitaka MACHIDA
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Patent number: 9156152Abstract: An impact tool is provided with a rational structure of connecting a ring-like member and a counter weight. The impact tool has a tool body, a motor, a drive shaft, a ring-like member that is caused to swing in an axial direction of a tool bit by rotation of the drive shaft, a tool driving mechanism, that is connected to the ring-like member and caused to rectilinearly move in the axial direction of the tool bit, and a counter weight that reduces vibration caused in the tool body in the axial direction of the tool bit. The counter weight has a connecting part that comes in contact with an outer edge of the ring-like member in at least one of axial directions of the tool bit, and the counter weight is connected to the ring-like member via the connecting part.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2012Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshitaka Machida
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Patent number: 9132572Abstract: A hammer drill includes a dust collector engaged with a housing by sliding. An engagement protrusion, which can engage and disengage with a rear engagement recessed portion provided on a guide groove of the housing, is provided at a position where the dust collector engages with the housing and biased in the direction of engagement with the rear engagement recessed portion. A front engagement recessed portion is also provided on the guide groove, and can engage with the engagement protrusion at a slide position of the dust collector in front of the engagement position. By engaging the engagement protrusion with the front engagement recessed portion, the dust collector can be fixed to the housing even at the slide position.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2011Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiaki Ishikawa, Kiyonobu Yoshikane, Yoshitaka Machida