# US 10,245,709 B2 · Gripping tool

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- Number: US 10,245,709 B2
- Document ID: US10245709B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/522,514
- Filed: 2015-10-27
- Published: 2018-10-11
- Granted: 2019-04-02
- Earliest claimed: 2014-10-28
- Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisya Leben Hanbai
- Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisya Leben Hanbai
- Inventors: Atsushi Takabu
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10245709B2

## CPC

- B25B 7/18: Adjusting means for the operating arms
- B25B 7/02: Jaws
- B25B 7/08: with fixed fulcrum
- B25G 1/102: {the shape being specially adapted to facilitate handling or improve grip}
- H02G 1/00: Methods or apparatus specially adapted for installing, maintaining, repairing or dismantling electric cables or lines
- B25B: TOOLS OR BENCH DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, FOR FASTENING, CONNECTING, DISENGAGING, OR HOLDING
- B25G: HANDLES FOR HAND IMPLEMENTS (attaching the blades or the like to handles of hand tools for soil working A01B1/22; handles of hand implements for harvesting A01D1/14; handles integral with brushware A46B)
- H02G: INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINED OPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES

## Abstract

Provided is a nipping tool with which it is possible to nip an object, such as a cable, appropriately in accordance with the thickness or size of the object. This nipping tool is a nipping tool in which two members, each including a grip part and an operation part, are rotatably connected, and the operation parts open and close in association with the opening/closing of the grip parts. The grip part has a plurality of holding positions. The shape of the grip part is such that the degree of opening of the operation parts differs when the two members are closed together using the various holding positions.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A gripping tool comprising:
two members, each of the members having
a grasping part; and
an acting part,
wherein the members are rotatably connected to each other,
the acting parts are opened and closed in association with opening and closing of the grasping parts,
the grasping part has a plurality of grasping positions, and
the grasping part is formed in such a shape that, when the two members are closed at the respective grasping positions, a degree of opening of the acting parts is different among the grasping positions,
wherein a shape of the grasping part is a step shape which is formed to have different widths.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The gripping tool according to claim 1, wherein on each of the step shapes, a value indicating a degree of opening of the acting parts is displayed.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The gripping tool according to claim 1, wherein the gripping tool further comprises a connection part which connects the acting part and the grasping part, wherein a length of the connection part is adjustable.