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Granted Patent B2
US 12,330,273 · App. 18/324,762 · Granted Jun 17, 2025

Impact rotary tool

Inventors: Akiko Honda (Osaka, JP); Masaya Sato (Mie, JP); Takahiro Ueda (Okayama, JP); Kimitaka Ozawa (Osaka, JP); Takashi Kusagawa (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
B25B21/02
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Patent No.
US 12,330,273
App. No.
18/324,762
Granted
Jun 17, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An impact rotary tool includes a hammer, an anvil, an output shaft, a housing, a bearing (first bearing), and a buffer member. The buffer member includes an elastic member. The anvil has a first facing region. The output shaft has a second facing region. The buffer member is interposed between the anvil and the output shaft. The buffer member regulates a gap distance between the second facing region and the first facing region such that when a maximum load is transmitted from the hammer to the elastic member, the second facing region faces the first facing region with a gap left between the second facing region and the first facing region in a thrusting direction.

Claims (26)

1. An impact rotary tool comprising:

a hammer configured to rotate upon receiving motive power from a motor;

an anvil configured to rotate upon receiving, from the hammer, impacting force in a rotational direction of the hammer;

an output shaft configured to hold a tip tool thereon and rotate along with the anvil upon receiving, from the anvil, force in a rotational direction of the anvil;

a housing that houses the hammer and the anvil;

a bearing held by the housing and supporting the output shaft rotatably; and

a buffer member including an elastic member configured to be elastically deformed in a thrusting direction aligned with a rotational axis of the output shaft,

the anvil having a first facing region facing the output shaft in the thrusting direction,

the output shaft having a second facing region facing the first facing region in the thrusting direction,

the buffer member being interposed between the anvil and the output shaft,

the elastic member being compressed in the thrusting direction under a load transmitted in the thrusting direction from the hammer,

the buffer member being configured to regulate a gap distance between the second facing region and the first facing region such that when a maximum load is transmitted from the hammer to the elastic member, the second facing region faces the first facing region with a gap left between the second facing region and the first facing region in the thrusting direction, and

the bearing being a member having a ringlike shape and an inner surface of the bearing being in contact with the anvil and the output shaft.

2. The impact rotary tool of claim 1 , wherein

the anvil includes: an anvil body; and a first contact portion protruding from the anvil body in the thrusting direction, and

the output shaft includes: an output shaft body; and a second contact portion protruding from the output shaft body in the thrusting direction and configured to contact with the first contact portion to receive, from the first contact portion, force that causes the output shaft to rotate.

3. The impact rotary tool of claim 2 , wherein

the anvil includes a plurality of the first contact portions, the plurality of the first contact portions being arranged side by side in the rotational direction of the anvil, and

the output shaft includes a plurality of the second contact portions, the plurality of the second contact portions being arranged side by side in a rotational direction of the output shaft.

4. The impact rotary tool of claim 1 , wherein

the buffer member is disposed on a center axis of the output shaft.

5. The impact rotary tool of claim 1 , wherein

the buffer member further includes an adjusting member having a larger elastic modulus in the thrusting direction than the elastic member, and

the elastic member and the adjusting member are arranged side by side in the thrusting direction.

6. The impact rotary tool of claim 5 , wherein

the adjusting member is separate from the anvil and the output shaft.

Assignments (2)
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Aug 6, 2026
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
To: NEXRA FIELD WORKS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 076114/0584 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 4, 2023
From: HONDA, AKIKO; SATO, MASAYA; UEDA, TAKAHIRO; OZAWA, KIMITAKA; KUSAGAWA, TAKASHI
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 064786/0034 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2022-093317 · Jun 8, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230398664A1 · Dec 14, 2023
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