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US 12,276,243 B2Granted
Injector component having a coating, injector, as well as a device for coating
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsLutz Baumgaertner, Martin Roettgen, Martina Bubrin, Michael Lingner, Milan Pilaski, Tim Bergmann, Thomas Felsch
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Abstract
An injector component of an injector for introducing a fluid is described as including a base body, a coating on at least one first end face of the base body, the coating having a maximum, which lies on an outer half of the base body, and an outer lateral surface of the base body does not have any coating.
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A device for a galvanic coating of a component, the device comprising:
- a base plate having a plurality of feed-through openings;
- a plurality of sleeves, wherein each respective one of the sleeves:
- is situated in a respective one of the feed-through openings;
- is preloaded in a first direction;
- and
- includes an annular contact face that radially projects inwardly and on which a frontal end of the component to be coated can be braced with the frontal end facing the annular contact face in a second direction opposite to the first direction;
- a plurality of individual anodes, each respective one of the individual anodes being disposed with respect to a respective one of the sleeves so that, when the frontal end of the component to be coated is braced against the annular contact face of the respective sleeve, the respective individual anode is arranged at the frontal end of the component to be coated;
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- a plurality of flow channels, each respective one of the flow channels being allocated to a respective one of the sleeves and being configured for a through-flow by an electrolyte.
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A device for a galvanic coating of a component, the device comprising:
- a base plate having a plurality of feed-through openings;
- a plurality of sleeves, wherein:
- each respective one of the sleeves is situated in a respective one of the feed-through openings;
- and
- each of the sleeves includes an annular contact face that radially projects inwardly and on which a frontal end of the component to be coated can be braced;
- a plurality of individual anodes, each respective one of the individual anodes being arranged with respect to a respective one of the sleeves so that, when the frontal end of the component to be coated is braced against the annular contact face of the respective sleeve, the respective individual anode is arranged at the frontal end of the component to be coated;
- a plurality of flow channels, each respective one of the flow channels being allocated to a respective one of the sleeves and being configured for a through-flow by an electrolyte;
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- for each of the plurality of sleeves, a respective spring element that (i) preloads the respective sleeve and (ii) is situated between the base plate and a radially outwardly oriented step of the respective sleeve.
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A device for a galvanic coating of a component, the device comprising:
- a base plate having a plurality of feed-through openings;
- a plurality of sleeves, wherein:
- each respective one of the sleeves is situated in a respective one of the feed-through openings;
- a preloading of the sleeves is able to be implemented;
- and
- each of the sleeves includes an annular contact face that radially projects inwardly and on which a frontal end of the component to be coated can be braced;
- a plurality of individual anodes, wherein each respective one of the individual anodes:
- has a central pin;
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- is arranged with respect to a respective one of the sleeves so that, when the frontal end of the component to be coated is braced against the annular contact face of the respective sleeve, the respective individual anode is arranged at the frontal end of the component to be coated, with the respective central pin of the respective individual anode projecting into the component to be coated;
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- a plurality of flow channels, each respective one of the flow channels being allocated to a respective one of the sleeves and being configured for a through-flow by an electrolyte.
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A device for a galvanic coating of a component, comprising:
- a base plate having a plurality of feed-through openings;
- a plurality of sleeves, wherein:
- each respective one of the sleeves is situated in a respective one of the feed-through openings;
- a preloading of the sleeves is able to be implemented;
- and
- each of the sleeves includes an annular rim that radially projects inwardly and a first side of which forms an annular contact face on which a frontal end of the component to be coated can be braced;
- a plurality of individual anodes, each respective one of the individual anodes being arranged so that (i) at least a portion of the respective anode is arranged at a second side of the annular rim of a respective one of the sleeves and (ii) when the frontal end of the component to be coated is braced against the annular contact face of the respective sleeve, the respective individual anode is arranged in front of the frontal end of the component to be coated;
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- a plurality of flow channels, each respective one of the flow channels being allocated to a respective one of the sleeves and being configured for a through-flow by an electrolyte.
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A method for coating a component, the method comprising:
- providing the component;
- placing the component in a device, wherein:
- (I) the device includes:
- (i) a base plate having a plurality of feed-through openings;
- (ii) a plurality of sleeves, each respective one of the sleeves:
- being situated in a respective one of the feed-through openings;
- being able to be preloaded;
- and
- including an annular contact face that radially projects inwardly and on which a frontal end of the component can be braced;
- (iii) a plurality of individual anodes, each respective one of the individual anodes being arranged with respect to a respective one of the sleeves so that, when the frontal end of the component is braced against the annular contact face of the respective sleeve, the respective individual anode is arranged at the frontal end of the component to be coated;
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- (iv) a plurality of flow channels, each respective one of the flow channels being allocated to a respective one of the sleeves and being configured for a through-flow by an electrolyte;
- (II) the device has at least one of the following four features (i)-(iv):
- (i) the device further comprises, for each of the plurality of sleeves, a respective spring element that (a) preloads the respective sleeve and (b) is situated between the base plate and a radially outwardly oriented step of the respective sleeve;
- (ii) each of the anodes has a respective central pin that, when the frontal end of the component is braced against the annular contact face of the respective sleeve, projects into the component;
- (iii) each of the sleeves is preloaded in a first direction and is arranged so that the frontal end of the component can be braced on the annular contact face with the frontal end facing the annular contact face in a second direction opposite to the first direction;
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- (iv) the annular contact face is formed by a first side of an annular rim of the respective sleeve, and each respective one of the individual anodes is arranged so that (a) at least a portion of the respective anode is arranged at a second side of the annular rim of a respective one of the sleeves and (b) when the frontal end of the component is braced against the annular contact face of the respective sleeve, the respective individual anode is arranged in front of the frontal end of the component to be coated;
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- (III) the placement of the component in the device is in such a way that an outer edge of the component rests on one of the annular contact faces of the device in order to cover the outer edge of the component so as to avoid coating of the outer edge of the component;
- exerting a preloading force such that the component to be coated rests in a preloaded manner on the respective annular contact face;
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- coating a first end face of the component in such a way that the coating has a maximum that lies on an outer half of the component and no coating is present on an outer lateral surface of the component.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.