US 11,590,638 B2 · Driver

Abstract

A driver including: an ejection part to which a fastener is supplied; a driver blade which moves from a first position toward a second position and drives the fastener into a driven member; and a rack provided to the driver blade. The driver further includes: a rotary component engaging with the rack and moving the driver blade from the second position to the first position; and a lock plate engaging with the rack. The driver blade moves from the second position to the first position while the rotary component rotates once, the rotary component is released from engaging with the rack after the driver blade moves from the second position to the first position, and moves from the first position to the second position, and the lock plate is engageable with the rack when the driver blade stops before reaching the second position from the first position.

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Dependent claims

A driver comprising:

an ejection part to which a fastener is supplied;
an impactor movable from a first position toward a second position to drive the fastener;
a rack provided to the impactor;
and
a rotary component having an engagement member,
wherein the engagement member has first to Nth pins (N is an integer) to engage with the rack, wherein N is a total number of pins disposed along a rotating direction of the rotary component in that order,
wherein the rotating direction is a direction to move the impactor from the second position to the first position,
wherein a distance between the first pin and the Nth pin is greater than any other distances between the pins adjacent to each other, and
wherein the Nth pin has a diameter greater than diameters of other pins.

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