US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Feb. 3 for "Dual pump system and method to control wavesolder contact length" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,271, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Dual pump system and method to control wavesolder contact length" was invented by Jonathan M. Dautenhahn (Lake Ozark, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wave soldering station of a wave soldering machine includes a flow duct positioned in a reservoir of a solder pot, and a core frame supported by the flow duct. The wave soldering station further includes a first pump to deliver solder material to a first chamber, a second pump to deliver solder material to a second chamber, and a wave soldering nozzle assembly supported by the core frame. The wave sol...