Method and system for applying a coating material using a programmable robot
AssigneeDürr Systems AG
InventorsLothar Rademacher, Martin Wolf
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Abstract
In order to program the sealing membranes to be applied to attachment parts of vehicle bodies, for example to the edge-formed seam of vehicle doors using a robot, an attachment part may be removed from the body and, away from the latter, be mounted on a teach frame where all regions of the attachment part which need to be coated are highly visible to the programmer during programming.
Claims23
A method for applying a coating material onto components of work pieces to be processed in series using a programmable coating robot with several axes, comprising:
- programming at least one application path to be generated by the coating robot to generate the control program to be executed by it in the serial coating of the components, an application tool being moved along the application path on a sample component corresponding to the components to be coated in series, and
- coating the components mounted in the work pieces automatically, wherein the coating robot is controlled by the control program,
- wherein the sample component is removed from the associated work piece when the application tool is moved on the sample component during the programming.
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A coating system for applying a coating material onto components of work pieces to be processed in series using a programmable coating robot with several axes, wherein, to program at least one application path to be generated by the robot, an application tool is moved along the application path on a sample component corresponding to the components to be coated in series, and the components mounted in the work pieces are automatically coated by the robot during the serial coating,
- wherein the sample component is removed from the associated work piece when the application tool is moved on the sample component during the programming.
The coating system according to claim 13, wherein the programming framework includes quick release fasteners.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.