Adaptive control of coating thickness
AssigneeRolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc.
InventorsKeith Bourne, Matthew R. Gold, Marshall Louis Sweet, Frol Periverzov, Benjamin Zimmerman
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Abstract
An example method that includes receiving, by a computing device, a geometry of the component that includes a plurality of locations on a surface of the component; determining, by the computing device, a respective target thickness of the coating for each respective location of the plurality of locations based on a target coated component geometry and the geometry of the component; and determining, by the computing device, a number of passes or velocity of a coating device for each respective position of a plurality of positions to achieve the respective target thickness for each respective location.
Claims9
A system comprising:
- a measuring device configured to measure a three-dimensional surface geometry of a component;
- a coating device configured to direct a coating material to a surface of the component to form a coating;
- and
- a computing device configured to:
- receive, from the measuring device, a geometry of the component, the geometry comprising a plurality of locations on a surface of the component;
- determine a respective target thickness of the coating for each respective location of the plurality of locations based on a target coated component geometry and the geometry of the component;
- determine a number of passes of the coating device for each respective position of a plurality of positions of a coating program to achieve the respective target thickness for each respective location;
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- determine a respective velocity of the coating device relative to the component for each respective position for each respective pass of the number of passes to achieve the respective target thickness for each respective location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.