Patents by Inventor Domenico Pietrafesa

Domenico Pietrafesa 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).

  • Patent number: 8994812
    Abstract: An optical sensor including a photo emitting element and a photo receiving element carried side-by-side by a supporting and feeding element either associated or associable in use with a support for a container, and a composite lens, either associated or associable with the container, designed so as to remain in use immersed in a liquid contained in the container and facing the photo emitting and photo receiving elements; the lens including: a first cylindrical body made of a light-permeable material, mountable in use vertically from the top of the container facing the photo emitting and photo receiving elements to a bottom wall of the container; and a second cylindrical body, arranged concentrically with and outside the first body and open towards the bottom wall; respective side walls of the first and second cylindrical bodies having the same length, that of the second body being separated from that of the first body by a predetermined annular clearance, and being made so as to be at least partially reflecti
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Sergio Giordano, Alessio Chianura, Domenico Pietrafesa, Klemen Dobravec
  • Patent number: 8760659
    Abstract: An optical-type turbidity sensor including a casing accommodating photo emitting means and photo receiving means therein, wherein the photo emitting means and the photo receiving means are arranged side-by-side on a same side of the casing, preferably underneath a same lens-shaped, transparent portion of the same, and are facing to, and spaced from, a reflecting surface carried by the casing and adapted to receive a light radiation from the photo emitting means for reflecting it towards the photo receiving means; the reflecting surface is operatively associated with means for varying a distance existing between the reflecting surface and the side of the casing provided with the photo emitting and photo receiving means arranged side-by-side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Sergio Giordano, Domenico Pietrafesa
  • 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: 8334643
    Abstract: A lamp for internal lighting of an electric household appliance includes an LED, a printed circuit for supporting and powering the LED, and a supporting body made of an electrically non-conductive material and provided, at a first end thereof, with a reflecting/diffusing element for light emitted from the LED. The LED is carried on a flat face of the printed circuit, at a first end of the printed circuit. The supporting body has a tubular shape and the printed circuit being supported inside the supporting body, with the flat face arranged substantially coplanar with an optical axis of the reflecting/diffusing element and the first end of the printed circuit overhangingly protruding from the first end of the supporting body, so that the reflecting/diffusing element collects at least a part of the light emitted from the LED. The printed circuit extends over an entire length of the supporting body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Sergio Giordano, Domenico Pietrafesa
  • Publication number: 20120133759
    Abstract: An optical sensor including a photo emitting element and a photo receiving element carried side-by-side by a supporting and feeding element either associated or associable in use with a support for a container, and a composite lens, either associated or associable with the container, designed so as to remain in use immersed in a liquid contained in the container and facing the photo emitting and photo receiving elements; the lens including: a first cylindrical body made of a light-permeable material, mountable in use vertically from the top of the container facing the photo emitting and photo receiving elements to a bottom wall of the container; and a second cylindrical body, arranged concentrically with and outside the first body and open towards the bottom wall; respective side walls of the first and second cylindrical bodies having the same length, that of the second body being separated from that of the first body by a predetermined annular clearance, and being made so as to be at least partially reflecti
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Sergio Giordano, Alessio Chianura, Domenico Pietrafesa, Klemen Dobravec
  • Publication number: 20120002206
    Abstract: An optical-type turbidity sensor including a casing accommodating photo emitting means and photo receiving means therein, wherein the photo emitting means and the photo receiving means are arranged side-by-side on a same side of the casing, preferably underneath a same lens-shaped, transparent portion of the same, and are facing to, and spaced from, a reflecting surface carried by the casing and adapted to receive a light radiation from the photo emitting means for reflecting it towards the photo receiving means; the reflecting surface is operatively associated with means for varying a distance existing between the reflecting surface and the side of the casing provided with the photo emitting and photo receiving means arranged side-by-side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Sergio Giordano, Domenico Pietrafesa
  • Publication number: 20110241517
    Abstract: A lamp for internal lighting of an electric household appliance including at least one light source consisting of a LED, a printed circuit for supporting and powering the light source and a supporting body for the printed circuit made of an electrically non-conductive material and provided, at one first end thereof, with a reflecting/diffusing element of the light emitted by the light source and defining an optical axis arranged substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the supporting body; wherein the at least one light source is mounted at a first end of the printed circuit, fixed to a first flat face thereof, with a light diffusion axis thereof oriented substantially perpendicular to the first face; the printed circuit being supported inside the body, which is tubular in shape, with the first face arranged substantially coplanar with the optical axis of the reflecting/diffusing element and the first end overhangingly protruding from the first end of the supporting body, within a concavity of the ref
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Sergio Giordano, Domenico Pietrafesa
  • Publication number: 20110072907
    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: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Sergio Giordano, Domenico Pietrafesa