US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on July 7 for "Radiant curtain heating assembly for wave soldering machine" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,377, issued on July 7, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Radiant curtain heating assembly for wave soldering 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 includes a housing, a conveyor that is movable with respect to the housing, a preheat module positioned along the conveyor, and a curtain module positioned at an entrance of the housing, the curtain module including at least one curtain and a heating element. A curtain module for a wave soldering machine or a reflow oven includes at least one curtain and a heating element. A method o...