OPTICAL-BASED WELD TRAVEL SPEED SENSING SYSTEM

Patent №

US 11,612,949

Granted

2023-03-28

Filed 2016

Owner

ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15384085

A travel speed sensing system includes an optical sensor configured to be coupled to a welding torch. The optical sensor is configured to sense light incident on the optical sensor, and the travel speed sensing system is configured to determine a travel speed of the welding torch, a direction of the welding torch, or both, based on the sensed light.

VisionB23K 9/0956B23K 9/095B23K 9/0953G01P 3/36G01P 3/38G01S 11/12G01S 11/14G01S 17/58

AI classification

Vision0.88
Knowledge representation0.19
AI hardware0.12
Evolutionary computation0.00
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.

assignment · 444190917

Assignors

PFEIFER, KYLE ANDREW, HOLVERSON, TODD EARL, WATSON, WILLIAM TODD, HUTCHISON, RICHARD MARTIN, BECKER, WILLIAM JOSHUA

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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