Voltage assisted painting system
AssigneeNissan North America, Inc.
InventorsSandeep Patil, Cenk Gumeci
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Abstract
A voltage assisted painting system includes a housing, at least one nozzle, and at least one electrode. The housing has a conduit for receiving paint from an external source into the housing. The at least one nozzle is disposed in the housing. The at least one nozzle has an inlet that is fluidly connected to the conduit to receive paint from the conduit. The at least one nozzle has an outlet that dispenses paint. The at least one electrode is provided at the housing at a location downstream of the inlet with respect to the conduit. The at least one electrode is configured to generate a magnetic field in the vicinity of the outlet.
Claims18
An voltage assisted painting system comprising:
- a housing having a conduit for receiving paint from an external source into the housing;
- at least one nozzle disposed in the housing, the at least one nozzle having an inlet that is fluidly connected to the conduit to receive paint from the conduit, the at least one nozzle having an outlet that dispenses paint, the nozzle inlet being larger than the nozzle outlet, the inlet and the outlet being continuously connected by a sidewall of the nozzle tapering from the nozzle inlet to the nozzle outlet;
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- at least one first electrode provided at the housing at a location downstream of the inlet with respect to the conduit, the at least one first electrode being provided on the at least one nozzle or the at least one nozzle defining the at least one first electrode, the at least one first electrode being configured to generate a magnetic field in the vicinity of the outlet to induce droplet formation in the paint dispensed from the nozzle outlet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.