ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,444, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).
"Wave solder finger detection system and method" was invented by Jackson Schieber (Columbia, Mo.) and Jonathan M. Dautenhahn (Lake Ozark, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wave soldering machine includes a wave soldering station configured to create a solder wave used to perform the wave soldering operation on the printed circuit board. The wave soldering machine further includes a finger conveyor system configured to deliver a printed circuit board to the wave soldering station. The finger conveyor system includes at least one chain conveyor includ...