Patents Assigned to ITW Metalflex
  • Patent number: 8689626
    Abstract: A pressure sensor including a body, device for receiving pressure associable with a tube connected to a fluid-filled tank of an electric household appliance, wherein the level of the fluid is to be measured. It further includes a device for emitting electric frequency signal proportional to the pressure received; a device carried aboard the body, on which a plurality of response frequency values emitted by the emitting means associated with corresponding pressure values at the pressure receiving means, were recorded. The pressure sensor is used with a pressure reading system carried by the device for receiving pressure. The pressure reading system includes two devices for reading values recorded on the pressure sensor, i.e. pressure and frequency values; and electric frequency signals. The pressure reading system further includes a processing device for interpolating the pressure value associated with every signal on the basis of the values read by the reading device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: ITW Metalflex
    Inventor: Sergio Giordano
  • Patent number: 8353216
    Abstract: A fast-fit device for fluidically connecting a pressure sensor to a water collecting tank of an electric household appliance including: a supporting body securable to a housing of the electric household appliance and carrying a first, blind tubular element, having a first open end, opposite to a second blind end; a second tubular element integrally obtained in one piece with a casing of the pressure sensor, which overhangingly extends therefrom for the entire length thereof and which displays external diameter and length smaller than the internal diameter and length of the first tubular element; a closing plug of the first end provided with a through hole which fluid-tightly receives in use the second tubular element; and first and second fastening means which are reciprocally complementary and integrally carried by the supporting body and the casing of the sensor, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: ITW Metalflex
    Inventors: Sergio Giordano, Domenico Pietrafesa
  • Patent number: 7449647
    Abstract: A position transducer of water level in a machine basin, preferably in a drum-type washing machine or a dishwasher and the like, transforms information relating to the water level in the flood basin of the machine into an electric signal to activate an execution organ. The circuit realizing the transformation is an embedded contact lamella provided with electronic members. Integrally with the step of embedding, a snap arrangement is prepared for engaging and retaining a connector connected to the circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: ITW Metalflex
    Inventor: Igor Kranjc