US 12,623,248 B2 · Smart sealer management system and method

Abstract

A sealer management system processes a method for monitoring a sealer usage. The sealer management system includes: an application unit for applying a sealer to a vehicle body; a pump for supplying the sealer to the application unit; a first sensor for detecting absence of a sealer inside a sealer drum, and a second sensor for detecting whether the sealer drum has been replaced; a sealer application device including an application controller that recognizes when the sealer drum is replaced based on the detection information of the first sensor and the second sensor, and calculates the actual sealer usage by counting the number of times of the replacement of the sealer drum; and a management server that compares the actual sealer usage obtained from the sealer application device with a set standard sealer usage to determine whether a sealer usage failure event occurs.

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Dependent claims

A sealer management system comprising:

a sealer drum configured to store a sealer;
a sealer application device comprising an application unit configured to apply the sealer to a vehicle body;
a pump configured to supply the sealer in the sealer drum to the application unit;
a first sensor configured to detect absence of the sealer inside the sealer drum;
a second sensor configured to detect whether the sealer drum has been replaced;
and
a management server configured to communicate with the sealer application device,
wherein the sealer application device further comprises an application controller that is configured to:
determine a replacement event of the sealer drum based on detection information of the first sensor and the second sensor, and
calculate a sealer usage by counting a number of times of the replacement event of the sealer drum, and
wherein the management server is configured to:
compare the sealer usage obtained from the sealer application device to a set standard sealer usage, and
determine whether a sealer usage failure event occurs.

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A sealer management method of managing a sealer usage of one or more sealer application devices based on detection information of a first sensor and a second sensor, the sealer management method comprising:

lowering, by an application controller, an induction plate to an upper surface of a sealer disposed inside a sealer drum;
based on lowering the induction plate, switching the second sensor to an on-state for detecting a replacement event of the sealer drum;
further lowering, by the application controller, the induction plate based on the sealer usage of the sealer in the sealer drum;
based on the induction plate reaching a bottom of the sealer drum, detecting, by the application controller, absence of the sealer in response to the first sensor being switched on;
generating an alarm to notify the absence of the sealer in the sealer drum;
and
calculating, by the application controller, the sealer usage by counting a number of times of a replacement even of the sealer drum based on both of the first and second sensors being switched to an off-state while the induction plate being raised for replacing the sealer drum.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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