Patents Assigned to Illinois Tool Works, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11926250
    Abstract: A sleeve device for a headrest, the device including a sleeve body for insertion into a vehicle seat, the sleeve body including a tubular wall describing an inner axial passage and a rod-engaging portion which is deformable inwardly relative to the tubular wall, the rod-engaging portion including a flexible pad on its external side, wherein the pad is configured to be urged, in use, to force the engaging portion into the axial passage and/or against a rod received within the axial passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Albert Moreno
  • Publication number: 20240075906
    Abstract: A method for repairing small surface imperfections on a vehicle body is provided that includes the application of an uncured layer to a thickness of up to 1.02 mm of a composition inclusive of a polyester resin, an acrylated urethane resin, a defoamer, and a particulate filler to the vehicle body or a cured putty thereon. The uncured layer is then exposed to actinic radiation to induce cure of the uncured layer to form a coating to fill the small surface imperfection on the vehicle body. A one component, UV-cured putty material for repairing small surface imperfections is also provides inclusive of a polyester resin, an acrylated urethane oligomer or polymer, a defoamer, a photoinitiator, and a particulate filler. The composition has an uncured viscosity of between 9,000 and 13,000 centiPoise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Mehdi Habibpour, Rick Turpin, Carlton Seaboldt, Grant Shouldice
  • Publication number: 20240075498
    Abstract: A method for repairing surface imperfections on a vehicle body includes the application of an uncured layer to a thickness of up to 0.254 mm of a primer composition comprising: a polyester resin, an acrylated urethane resin, a crosslinking agent, a solvent, and a particulate filler to the vehicle body. The uncured layer is exposed to actinic radiation to induce cure of the uncured layer to form a coating to fill the surface imperfection on the vehicle body. A surface coating primer composition is also provided that includes a polyester resin; an acrylated urethane oligomer or polymer; a crosslinking agent; a solvent; a photoinitiator; and a particulate filler. The uncured composition has a viscosity of between 100 and 800 centipoise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Mehdi Habibpour, Rick Turpin, Carlton Seaboldt, Grant Shouldice
  • Publication number: 20240075683
    Abstract: A method for repairing a defect in a vehicle exterior body surface is provided that includes a scan data set being generated that corresponds to the dimensional surface boundaries of the defect. A manufacturing data set is created for an object at least in part complementary to the defect from the scan data. The object is formed from the manufacturing data set with a layered manufacturing device. The object is joined to the defect to repair the vehicle exterior body surface. An object is also provided formed of a thermoplastic or a UV cured polymer with a shape that is at least at least in part complementary to a defect vehicle exterior body surface. The object having a void therein with the shape configured to receive an insert or a fastener therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Mehdi Habibpour, Rick Turpin, Carlton Seaboldt, Grant Shouldice
  • Patent number: 11919055
    Abstract: Air rinsing apparatus and systems for rinsing containers are disclosed. An example air rinsing apparatus includes: a first enclosure having a first inlet port and a first output port; a second enclosure within the first enclosure, the second enclosure comprising a second inlet port and a second output port, the second output port disposed on a same face of the first enclosure as the first inlet port; and one or more air movers configured to: urge first air into the second inlet port, the second enclosure configured to direct the first air from the second inlet port to the second output port; and pull second air from the first output port, the first enclosure configured to direct the second air from the first inlet port to the first output port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: William Mark Feldmann, William Rick Immell, Stanley Coley, Barbara Stefl, James Steven Prows
  • Patent number: 11920623
    Abstract: A fastener assembly of the present disclosure includes a grommet including a head having a through-hole formed therein and at least one leg extending downward from the head; and a pin configured with a head and a shaft inserted into the grommet. The grommet and the pin are integrally formed by a connection tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Danbee Lee
  • Patent number: 11919053
    Abstract: An example system to clean a continuous substrate includes: one or more high pressure nozzles configured to spray a high pressure, low flow spray of a first cleaning fluid at the continuous substrate to remove particulate matter from the continuous substrate; an agitation bath and a plurality of rollers configured to transport the continuous substrate from a first volume having the high pressure, low volume spray, to a second volume having the agitation bath; an agitator in the agitation bath, comprising at least one of a megasonic transducer or an ultrasonic transducer, and configured to direct energy at the continuous substrate; and a vacuum roller configured to vacuum moisture from the continuous substrate during transporting of the continuous substrate from the first volume to the second volume; a dryer configured to dry the continuous substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory T. Hall
  • Patent number: 11920695
    Abstract: A valve operating machine includes a base, a housing thereon and a motor within the housing, an output socket rotatably coupled to the housing and extending through the base, a ring lock rotatably coupled to the output socket, a locking assembly which locks the ring lock to the output socket and can be released to allow removal of the ring lock from the output socket, a plate rotatably coupled to the ring lock, and a mating assembly configured to couple the plate to the base in at least two positions, while preventing rotation of the plate relative to the base. A key that is used to exercise a valve can be connected to the output socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth R. Pierce, Michael W. Gearhart
  • Patent number: 11923788
    Abstract: Disclosed example welding or cutting circuits include: an input leg including a capacitor coupled between a high bus and a low bus; a buck converter coupled in parallel with the input leg, the buck converter having a first transistor, a second transistor, and an output electrically coupled to a node between the first transistor and the second transistor, and wherein the buck converter is configured to convert input voltage to current in an inductor coupled to the output of the buck converter; and a steering leg coupled in parallel with the input leg, wherein the steering leg is configured to control a rate at which the current in the inductor decreases, and wherein a current detector provides current level indications to a hysteretic controller, the hysteretic controller providing signals to the first and second transistors that control the first and second transistors to control the voltage applied to the inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony Van Bergen Salsich
  • Patent number: 11921087
    Abstract: Described herein are examples of improved material (and/or universal) testing machines having a lower crossbeam that may be moved via a drive system of the material testing machine. In some examples, this may be accomplished via drive shafts with different threading in upper and lower portions, and/or independent drive systems for upper and lower crossbeams. The ability to dynamically adjust (e.g., raise) the lower crossbeam may allow an operator to interact with test samples at a more comfortable height, and reduce the need for an operator to repeatedly bend and/or kneel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventor: Daniel Patrick Giovanoni
  • Patent number: 11922644
    Abstract: Described herein are examples of weld tracking systems implemented via a welding helmet. The welding helmet includes weld tracking sensors configured to allow the welding helmet to track a welding-type tool and/or an arc generated by the welding-type tool. The welding helmet also includes helmet tracking sensors configured to allow the welding helmet to track its own position and/or orientation relative to a reference point in the welding environment. By tracking itself as well as the welding-type tool and/or arc, the welding helmet can differentiate between its own movement, and movement of the welding-type tool and/or arc. By knowing the spatial relationship between the different sensors of the welding helmet, the tracking information can be combined and used for weld tracking. By implementing the weld tracking system in the welding helmet, the weld tracking system becomes portable and usable outside of the usual fixed confines of weld tracking systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: William Joshua Becker, Brett Sheleski
  • Patent number: 11919103
    Abstract: Systems and methods of a laser welding device are disclosed. The laser welding device includes a laser generator configured to generate welding-type lasing power. A lens focuses the welding-type lasing power at a focal point on a workpiece to generate a puddle during a welding-type operation. A wire feeder is configured to feed wire to the puddle generated by the laser generator. A laser scanner controls the lens to move the focal point of the welding-type lasing power in multiple dimensions over the workpiece during the welding-type operation. In some examples, the feed wire is used in an additive manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Shuang Liu, Erik Miller, Brian Doyle
  • Patent number: 11925008
    Abstract: Disclosed is an engine driven power supply that includes a housing having a first area that includes an engine and a second area that includes a temperature sensitive component. A fan is configured to force air in multiple directions through the housing. A temperature sensor to measure a temperature. And a controller controls the fan to force air in a first direction into the first area when the temperature exceeds a first threshold temperature value, and controls the fan to force air in a second direction into the second area when the temperature is below the first threshold temperature value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffery R. Ihde
  • Patent number: 11923208
    Abstract: Provided is disclosure for embodiments providing delivery of chemicals for conditioning a brush offline, where the brush is not coupled to a machine that makes use of the brush to clean a surface of an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Bradley Scott Withers, Corey Alan Hughes, Erik Scott Nelson, Steven Kenneth Christie, Brent Allan Best
  • Publication number: 20240066930
    Abstract: The invention relates in particular to a device for transmitting pressurized media, in particular compressed air, or control and/or working pressures between a first fluid duct (4), which is received or formed at least in regions in the interior of a first, in particular transmission-side cardan shaft section (3), and a second fluid duct (6), which is received or formed at least in regions in the interior of a second, in particular wheel-side cardan shaft section (5) which is connected in an articulated manner to an end region of the first cardan shaft section (3), wherein the device has a line section (7) which is fluidically connected to, or can be brought into fluidic connection with, the first and the second fluid duct (4, 6) and the length of which is reversibly changeable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC., KT PROJEKTENTWICKLUNGS GMBH
    Inventors: Konstantin TSIBERIDIS, Martin SPINDLER
  • Publication number: 20240066826
    Abstract: A method is provided that includes moving a first web of flexible material in a web direction. The method then includes attaching fastener strips to the first web. The fastener strips are spaced-apart a predetermined distance along a transverse direction to the web direction. An enclosure is formed from the first web including a front wall, a back wall, a first lateral side wall, and a second lateral side wall. The front wall opposes the back wall, and the first lateral side wall opposes the second lateral side wall. The enclosure includes an upper end openable by separating the fastener strips. Corners are formed in the enclosure between the front wall, the back wall, the first lateral side wall, and the second lateral side wall. The corners are formed from the predetermined distance between the fastener strips and the fastener strips are spaced apart from each other by the corners.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Matthews, Eric P. Plourde
  • Patent number: 11912021
    Abstract: An apparatus for holding label stock includes a body including a base and a roll holding area with a roll holding support extending from the base for receiving a roll of label stock. A plurality of rollers are located along a label stock feed path from the roll holding area to a label stock exit zone of the body. The plurality of rollers include a tensioning roller that is movable relative to the base to dissipate tension loads on label stock during label stock movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Michael A. Whitby, Randall L. Redman, Austin M. Knoblauch
  • Patent number: 11911886
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a combustion-powered fastener-driving tool including multiple combustion chambers and/or usable with fuel canisters of varying lengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Largo, Maureen Shea, Charles Zhao
  • Patent number: 11911859
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to provide preheat voltage feedback loss protection are disclosed. An example welding-type system includes a welding-type power source configured to provide welding-type power to a welding-type circuit, the welding-type circuit comprising a welding-type electrode and a first contact tip of a welding torch; an electrode preheating circuit configured to provide preheating power through a first portion of the welding-type electrode via a second contact tip of the welding torch; a preheat feedback circuit configured to measure a preheat voltage; and an electrode preheat control circuit configured to: control the preheating power based on the preheating voltage; and control the electrode preheating circuit to reduce the preheating power in response to detecting an invalid preheat voltage measured by the preheat feedback circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: James Lee Uecker, Jake Zwayer
  • Patent number: D1017352
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Dean Beardmore, Zac Hanna, Bryan Marshall