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: 20140352994Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Inventors: Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE, Yoshitaka MACHIDA
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Patent number: 8876932Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 9, 2012Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Makita CorporationInventors: Yoshitaka Machida, Kiyonobu Yoshikane
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Publication number: 20140174871Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE, Kenji SHIBATA, Yoshitaka MACHIDA
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Patent number: 8684105Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 19, 2011Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Makita CorporationInventors: Kiyonobu Yoshikane, Yoshitaka Machida
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Publication number: 20140020922Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2011Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki Ikuta, Ken Yamauchi, Takamasa Hanai, Yoshitaka Machida, Masanori Higashi, Tatsuo Nakashima, Yoshinori Sasaki
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Patent number: 8443914Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 17, 2011Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Makita CorporationInventors: Shinya Bito, Kiyonobu Yoshikane, Hitoshi Iida, Shinji Onoda, Yoshitaka Machida
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Publication number: 20130055523Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2012Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE, Yoshitaka MACHIDA
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Publication number: 20130055527Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2012Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka MACHIDA, Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE
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Publication number: 20130048327Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2012Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshitaka MACHIDA
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Publication number: 20130031881Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2012Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka MACHIDA, Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE
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Publication number: 20130031879Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2012Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE, Yoshitaka MACHIDA
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Publication number: 20120298391Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Kakiuchi, Hajime Takeuchi, Yoshitaka Machida
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Publication number: 20120273243Abstract: In a dust collection device attached to a hammer drill, a filter is provided in a dust box at a position at which the filter covers an outlet provided on a rear face of a lid body, in a state such that a filter surface projects into the dust box from the rear face of the lid body. A space is formed between an inner face of a box main body and a side face of the filter that is adjacent to the filter surface. Air outlets are provided to guide air, which flows in through an inlet, toward the space.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiro TADA, Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE, Yoshitaka MACHIDA
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Publication number: 20120234570Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2012Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka MACHIDA, Masanori FURUSAWA
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Publication number: 20120043101Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2011Publication date: February 23, 2012Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiaki ISHIKAWA, Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE, Yoshitaka MACHIDA
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Publication number: 20110259623Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2011Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE, Yoshitaka MACHIDA
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Publication number: 20110226499Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro KAKIUCHI, Yoshitaka MACHIDA
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Publication number: 20110226502Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya BITO, Kiyonobu YOSHIKANE, Hitoshi IIDA, Shinji ONODA, Yoshitaka MACHIDA
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Patent number: 7931095Abstract: In a hammer drill, a coil spring is disposed rearward of a piston cylinder inside a housing so as to press the piston cylinder to an advanced position when the hammer drill operates in a drill mode, and a supporting plate is disposed at a rear end of the piston cylinder. The supporting plate includes a pair of side plates and a base portion connecting front ends of the side plates. The base portion is in contact with a rear surface of the piston cylinder, and rear ends of the side plates are in contact with a front end of the coil spring. Openings provided in the side plates are configured to hold a pin on which a connecting arm is pivoted.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2009Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Makita CorporationInventors: Yoshitaka Machida, Kiyonobu Yoshikane
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Patent number: D677139Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2011Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Makita CorporationInventors: Yuji Yamamoto, Yoshitaka Machida