US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods to provide welding-type arc starting and stabilization" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,546, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Systems and methods to provide welding-type arc starting and stabilization" was invented by Andrew Henry (Appleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example arc starting/stabilizing circuit includes: a pulse generator configured to generate voltage pulses having a first voltage; and a plurality of transformers configured to receive the voltage pulses and output the voltage pulses to a welding-type output circuit at a second voltage higher than the first voltage, wherein: each of the plurality of transformers comprises one primary winding turn, o...