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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2004
Applicant:
Lukas Steinemann, Jona, CH;
Inventor:
Lukas Steinemann, Jona, CH;
Assignee:
Optrel AG, Wattwil, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A welding protective mask () includes illumination equipment () for illuminating a work area. The illumination equipment () includes an illumination device (), a detection device () for detecting an ambient light intensity, an energy storage () for electrically supplying the illumination equipment () and controller () for controlling an intensity of light radiated by the illumination means () according to the ambient light intensity. In a preferred embodiment of the invention the controller () is set up to detect a welding process with a flicker circuit and to switch off the illumination device () during the welding process.