US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Dec. 16 for "Optimization of nitrogen diffusers for dross reduction in a wavesolder machine" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,647, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Optimization of nitrogen diffusers for dross reduction in a wavesolder machine" was invented by Jonathan M. Dautenhahn (Lake Ozark, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wave soldering machine performs a wave soldering operation on an electronic substrate. The wave soldering machine includes a wave soldering station having a solder pot having a reservoir of solder material, a flow duct positioned in the reservoir of the solder pot, and a wave soldering nozzle assembly coupled to the flow duct. The nozzle assembly is configured to generate a solder wave...