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Illinois Tool Works Inc.

John Cronin

Mark D Burrows

Michael S Head

Cynthia Timblin

Sunny Agarwal

Michael E Donelan

Daren Lynch

Marc Stemerman

Linfeng Liu

Michael G D'andrea

Jerry I Jacobson

William Petrow

Jr Braswell Allen

Christopher M Rose

A method of depositing material on an electronic substrate with a dispensing system includes acquiring images of adjacent features, assigning programmed search boxes to edges of the features, identifying programmed edges of the features, for each feature identifying an intersection point of the programmed edges, determining a centerline from the intersection point, determining a midpoint of the, determining an intersect command for a dispense operation between the first component and the second component, and performing the dispense operation.

Intersect command vision locating system and method

An open application protocol for industrial equipment is disclosed. Disclosed techniques include: opening a connection between (a) an open application associated with a manufacturing execution system and (b) an instance of a data sharing interface operating on an industrial machine used in a surface mounting process, the open application being configured to communicate with any machine that implements the data sharing interface, regardless of machine type or manufacturer; discovering, by the open application via the connection, discoverable information associated with the industrial machine, the discoverable information including one or more of data items, events, commands, or alarms; and controlling, by the open application via the connection, operation of the industrial machine to control at least a portion of the surface mounting process.

Open application interface for industrial equipment

An apparatus and method for automatedly detecting the presence of one or more chemical contaminants, such as 2,4,6-trichloroanisole, in/on a plurality of cork wine bottle stoppers in rapid succession using electronic nose chips. The apparatus moves the nose chips and the cork stoppers independently to align the cork stopper and a corresponding electronic nose chip with one another for testing. The automated apparatus and method provides a low-cost, reliable process for testing 100% of cork wine bottle stoppers in a fast and cost-effective manner.

Automated apparatus and method for testing cork wine bottle stoppers for the presence of an analyte that causes cork taint in bottled wine

An apparatus () and method () for detecting the presence of one or more chemical contaminants in/on a plurality of items, e.g., cork stoppers (), using nose chips (). The apparatus utilizes detection sensor electronics () that are separate from the nose chips such that each nose chip can be either reused or discarded after use. The apparatus moves the nose chips and the cork stoppers independently to align the cork stopper and a corresponding nose chip with one another. The testing apparatus uses multiple sensor units () to simultaneously test multiple cork stoppers for chemical contaminants (e.g., TCA). The invention provides a low-cost, reliable process for testing 100% of cork stoppers in a fast and cost-effective manner that is scalable to the general consumer product market.

Apparatus and method for detecting an analyte

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Essex Junction, VT, United States of America

John Cronin