SawStop
Sign in to savethumb|300px|Saw Stop table saw used at former TechShop in [[Redwood City California]] SawStop is an American table saw manufacturer headquartered in Tualatin, Oregon. The company was founded in 2000 to manufacture table saws that feature a patented automatic braking system that stops the blade upon contact with skin or flesh. This aims to minimize injuries that are relatively common when working with normal table saws.
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18 sectionsContents
- Mechanism
- Limitations
- Drawings from SawStop patent applications
- History
- Invention (1999)
- Prototype and founding of company (2000)
- Attempt to license (2002)
- Start of manufacturing (2004)
- Product liability litigation against Ryobi and other saw manufacturers (2006)
- Opposition from trade group (2008)
- Competition appears (2015)
- Patent litigation (2016)
- New ownership by TTS Holding (2017)
- Patent expiration (2021)
- Intent to release patent (2023–2024)
- Availability
- See also
- External links
thumb|300px|Saw Stop table saw used at former TechShop in [[Redwood City California]] SawStop is an American table saw manufacturer headquartered in Tualatin, Oregon. The company was founded in 2000 to manufacture table saws that feature a patented automatic braking system that stops the blade upon contact with skin or flesh. This aims to minimize injuries that are relatively common when working with normal table saws.
==Mechanism== According to the manufacturer's website, the saw blade stops in less than five milliseconds, while angular momentum retracts the blade into the table. The operator suffers a minor injury instead of a serious one. The design takes advantage of the difference in conductance and capacitance between wood and flesh.