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| Year | Description |
| 1995 | Invention patented by Shumi Akazawa on October 4th, 1995. Abstract: A power carving tool has a housing, a driving motor, a cam shaft engaged with the rotary shaft of the driving motor and having a cooling fan, a cam sleeve with a slanted cam surface, engaged with the cam shaft and reliably held by a ball bearing supported by the housing, and an output shaft moved reciprocatingly by bringing a contact portion provided at the rear portion thereof into contact with the cam surface thereby to maintain a stable rotation of the cam sleeve and to avoid mechanical loss. |
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