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).

  • Publication number: 20150144368
    Abstract: A hammer drill includes a main body which houses a driving motor having a brush and a brush holder unit which holds the brush and switches a position of the brush, and a main handle which is movable to the main body. Further, a coil spring which biases the handle is provided. In a state that the coil spring biases the handle, the handle is moved against the main body in a longitudinal direction of a hammer bit and vibration transmission from the main body to the handle is prevented. Further, interference of a lever of the brush holder unit and the handle is prevented by a part of an opening formed on the handle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventor: Yoshitaka MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20150144366
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventor: Yoshitaka MACHIDA
  • Patent number: 8967922
    Abstract: A technique for allowing a user to operate an operating member disposed in a front end region of a power tool in the state in which a dust collecting attachment designed to be attached to the front end region of the power tool is left attached to the power tool. The dust collecting attachment is used on a power tool having an operating member for removal and/or bit angle setting of a tool bit coupled to a front end region of a tool body. The dust collecting attachment has a dust collecting member which can be attached to the front end region of the tool body. The dust collecting member has an opening formed in a region which faces the operating member in the state in which the dust collecting member is attached to the tool body, and the operating member can be operated by user's finger through the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyonobu Yoshikane, Yoshitaka Machida, Masanori Furusawa, Yoshihiro Kasuya
  • Publication number: 20150041170
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyunobu Yoshikane, Yoshitaka Machida, Shinji Onoda, Hitoshi Iida
  • Patent number: 8915309
    Abstract: A dust box joined to a dust collecting device is formed of a box body, and a lid body that is joined to the box body by a hinge and can open and close an opening of the box body, and a main filter and a pre-filter are attached to the lid body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kakiuchi, Yoshitaka Machida
  • Patent number: 8906124
    Abstract: A dust collecting device is provided which is capable of preventing static charge while rationally collecting dust generated during operation. A dust collecting device is removably attached to a power tool and can be carried together with the power tool, and collects dust generated when a predetermined operation is performed on a workpiece by driving a tool bit coupled to the power tool. Further, the dust collecting device has a dust suction region that sucks dust generated during operation in response to the operation of the tool bit, a dust transfer region that transfers the dust sucked in the dust suction region, and a dust storage region that communicates with the dust transfer region and stores the dust. Furthermore, the dust collecting device has a grounding member through which static charge on the dust is dissipated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyonobu Yoshikane, Yoshitaka Machida
  • Publication number: 20140352114
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE, Yoshitaka MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20140352994
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE, Yoshitaka MACHIDA
  • Patent number: 8876932
    Abstract: A power tool dust collecting device includes a fan chamber and a dust collecting chamber. The fan chamber is formed in a housing which is mountable on a hammer drill and in which a suction opening is provided protrudingly. The fan chamber houses a fan that rotates in accordance with driving of a motor. The dust collecting chamber is formed on an upstream side of the fan chamber. Mounted on the dust collecting chamber is a filter through which passes air that has been sucked up from the suction opening by the rotation of the fan and which collects dust included in the air. An air pumping unit that pumps air from a downstream side of the filter toward an upstream side is provided inside the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Machida, Kiyonobu Yoshikane
  • Publication number: 20140174871
    Abstract: In a hammer drill, a coil spring that urges a first clutch and a second clutch in directions away from each other is held between a first change plate that engages with the first clutch to be slidable in the axial direction of an intermediate shaft and a second change plate that engages with the second clutch to be slidable in the axial direction of the intermediate shaft. The first change plate is slidably guided by a gear housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE, Kenji SHIBATA, Yoshitaka MACHIDA
  • Patent number: 8684105
    Abstract: A technique is provided which improves durability in a power tool having a torque transmission device. The representative power tool has a torque transmission device 151. The torque transmission device 151 includes a projection 171 formed on one of opposed surfaces of a first rotating member 153 and a second rotating member 155 and protruding in a direction of a rotational axis, a recess 161 for receiving the projection 171, which is formed in the other of the opposed surfaces and recessed in the direction of the rotational axis, a projection-side engagement surface 175a formed on the projection 171, and a recess-side engagement surface 165a formed on the recess 171. Torque is transmitted when the projection-side and recess-side engagement surfaces 175a, 165a are engaged with each other, while the torque transmission is interrupted when the projection-side and recess-side engagement surfaces 175a, 165a are disengaged from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyonobu Yoshikane, Yoshitaka Machida
  • Publication number: 20140020922
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2011
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Ikuta, Ken Yamauchi, Takamasa Hanai, Yoshitaka Machida, Masanori Higashi, Tatsuo Nakashima, Yoshinori Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8443914
    Abstract: A hammer drill is provided with a connector equipped with a female terminal, movably between a connection position where the female terminal is located inside a plug-in port and a non-connection position where the female terminal is in retreat from inside the plug-in port. The hammer drill is also provided with a torsion spring that urges the connector toward the non-connection position. The connector is provided with a shutter portion that is located inside the plug-in port to close the plug-in port at the non-connection position and is in retreat from inside the plug-in port at the connection position. A dust collecting device is provided with a press rail that comes into abutment on the connector to move the connector to the connection position against the urging of the torsion spring as the dust collecting device is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Bito, Kiyonobu Yoshikane, Hitoshi Iida, Shinji Onoda, Yoshitaka Machida
  • Publication number: 20130055523
    Abstract: In a power tool dust collecting device, a blocking ring that is subject to elastic deformation upon contact with a workpiece surface for blockage between a suction head and the workpiece surface is provided to the front surface of the suction head to be brought into contact with the workpiece surface. The blocking ring has a ventilating portion (a V-shaped slit) that ensures the flow of air to the suction head regardless of whether the elastic deformation has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE, Yoshitaka MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20130055527
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MACHIDA, Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE
  • Publication number: 20130048327
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshitaka MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20130031881
    Abstract: A power tool dust collecting device includes a fan chamber and a dust collecting chamber. The fan chamber is formed in a housing which is mountable on a hammer drill and in which a suction opening is provided protrudingly. The fan chamber houses a fan that rotates in accordance with driving of a motor. The dust collecting chamber is formed on an upstream side of the fan chamber. Mounted on the dust collecting chamber is a filter through which passes air that has been sucked up from the suction opening by the rotation of the fan and which collects dust included in the air. An air pumping unit that pumps air from a downstream side of the filter toward an upstream side is provided inside the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka MACHIDA, Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE
  • Publication number: 20130031879
    Abstract: A dust collecting device is provided which is capable of preventing static charge while rationally collecting dust generated during operation. A dust collecting device 120 is removably attached to a power tool 101 and can be carried together with the power tool 101, and collects dust generated when a predetermined operation is performed on a workpiece by driving a tool bit 119 coupled to the power tool 101. Further, the dust collecting device 120 has a dust suction region 131 that sucks dust generated during operation in response to the operation of the tool bit 119, a dust transfer region 137 that transfers the dust sucked in the dust suction region 131, and a dust storage region 141 that communicates with the dust transfer region 137 and stores the dust. Furthermore, the dust collecting device 120 has a grounding member 147 through which static charge on the dust is dissipated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE, Yoshitaka MACHIDA
  • Publication number: 20120298391
    Abstract: A male terminal is formed on a dust collecting device so as to protrude therefrom, while a plug-in port into which the male terminal can be inserted, and a female terminal that is located inside the plug-in port and can be electrically connected to the male terminal, are provided in a hammer drill. When the dust collecting device is joined to the hammer drill and the male terminal is electrically connected to the female terminal, a driving source is supplied from a battery pack to the dust collecting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kakiuchi, Hajime Takeuchi, Yoshitaka Machida
  • Patent number: D677139
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Makita Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Yamamoto, Yoshitaka Machida