Patents by Inventor Craig Knoener

Craig Knoener has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • INPUT POWER USER INTERFACES FOR WELDING POWER SUPPLIES
    Publication number: 20250091153
    Abstract: Disclosed example power supplies, user interfaces, and methods provide for monitoring, analysis and/or presentation of input power characteristics for a welding-type power supply and/or wire feeder. A welding system includes a power supply to deliver power to a welding torch based on one or more input power characteristics. The input power characteristics may correspond to received input power characteristics values during a welding procedure. The input power characteristics are responsive to the power demanded during the welding operation and may change accordingly. To maintain an accounting of the input power characteristics and their values as they change during the welding operation, control circuitry may receive information regarding the input characteristics, analyze the information, and/or generate presentable indicators for display on one or more graphical interfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Craig Knoener, Joseph C. Schneider
  • Input power user interfaces for welding power supplies
    Patent number: 12157190
    Abstract: Disclosed example power supplies, user interfaces, and methods provide for monitoring, analysis and/or presentation of input power characteristics for a welding-type power supply and/or wire feeder. A welding system includes a power supply to deliver power to a welding torch based on one or more input power characteristics. The input power characteristics may correspond to received input power characteristics values during a welding procedure. The input power characteristics are responsive to the power demanded during the welding operation and may change accordingly. To maintain an accounting of the input power characteristics and their values as they change during the welding operation, control circuitry may receive information regarding the input characteristics, analyze the information, and/or generate presentable indicators for display on one or more graphical interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Knoener, Joseph C. Schneider
  • INPUT POWER USER INTERFACES FOR WELDING POWER SUPPLIES
    Publication number: 20230294194
    Abstract: Disclosed example power supplies, user interfaces, and methods provide for monitoring, analysis and/or presentation of input power characteristics for a welding-type power supply and/or wire feeder. A welding system includes a power supply to deliver power to a welding torch based on one or more input power characteristics. The input power characteristics may correspond to received input power characteristics values during a welding procedure. The input power characteristics are responsive to the power demanded during the welding operation and may change accordingly. To maintain an accounting of the input power characteristics and their values as they change during the welding operation, control circuitry may receive information regarding the input characteristics, analyze the information, and/or generate presentable indicators for display on one or more graphical interfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Craig Knoener, Joseph C. Schneider
  • Input power user interfaces for welding power supplies
    Patent number: 11660698
    Abstract: Disclosed example power supplies, user interfaces, and methods provide for monitoring, analysis and/or presentation of input power characteristics for a welding-type power supply and/or wire feeder. A welding system includes a power supply to deliver power to a welding torch based on one or more input power characteristics. The input power characteristics may correspond to received input power characteristics values during a welding procedure. The input power characteristics are responsive to the power demanded during the welding operation and may change accordingly. To maintain an accounting of the input power characteristics and their values as they change during the welding operation, control circuitry may receive information regarding the input characteristics, analyze the information, and/or generate presentable indicators for display on one or more graphical interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Knoener, Joseph C. Schneider
  • Multiple speed fan
    Patent number: 11554450
    Abstract: A welding-type power supply includes a fan configured to operate at multiple fan speeds. A controller of the welding-type power supply is configured to identify a welding parameter of the welding-type power supply, and determine an operating fan speed of the multiple fan speeds based on the welding parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Knoener, Ron Dewayne Woodward, Mary Divya Poulose
  • INPUT POWER USER INTERFACES FOR WELDING POWER SUPPLIES
    Publication number: 20210370430
    Abstract: Disclosed example power supplies, user interfaces, and methods provide for monitoring, analysis and/or presentation of input power characteristics for a welding-type power supply and/or wire feeder. A welding system includes a power supply to deliver power to a welding torch based on one or more input power characteristics. The input power characteristics may correspond to received input power characteristics values during a welding procedure. The input power characteristics are responsive to the power demanded during the welding operation and may change accordingly. To maintain an accounting of the input power characteristics and their values as they change during the welding operation, control circuitry may receive information regarding the input characteristics, analyze the information, and/or generate presentable indicators for display on one or more graphical interfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Craig Knoener, Joseph C. Schneider
  • MULTIPLE SPEED FAN
    Publication number: 20180339376
    Abstract: A welding-type power supply includes a fan configured to operate at multiple fan speeds. A controller of the welding-type power supply is configured to identify a welding parameter of the welding-type power supply, and determine an operating fan speed of the multiple fan speeds based on the welding parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Craig Knoener, Ron Dewayne Woodward, Mary Divya Poulose