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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2009
Lok C. Lam, Warwick, RI (US);
Keven E. Miller, Wyoming, RI (US);
David M. Mcgee, Attleboro, MA (US);
Lok C. Lam, Warwick, RI (US);
Keven E. Miller, Wyoming, RI (US);
David M. McGee, Attleboro, MA (US);
Stanley Fastening Systems, LP, East Greenwich, RI (US);
Abstract
A fastener driving device includes a housing, and a nose assembly carried by the housing. The nose assembly has a fastener drive track. The fastener driving device also includes an engine carried by the housing and configured to drive a fastener out of the drive track and into a workpiece during a drive stroke, a contact trip that includes an electrical actuator constructed and arranged to move a portion of contact trip to sense whether the workpiece is in front of the nose assembly, and a trigger configured to activate the electrical actuator to move the portion of the contact trip.