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US 2014/0367481 A1Published application
High Viscosity Fluid Dispensing System
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsChin H. Toh, Trent Rob Logan, John Walter Pringle, IV, Rodney Stephen Wright
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for depositing a fluid over an interface. A nozzle may comprise a body having a first end and a second end, an input located at the first end of the body, an output located at the second end of the body, and a plurality of channels located within the body. The input may be configured to receive a fluid. The plurality of channels may have a configuration that causes the fluid received through the input to flow through the plurality of channels and exit the output to form a deposition having a desired shape over an interface.
Claims25
An apparatus comprising:
- a housing having a chamber configured to receive a fluid in which the chamber is configured to increase a tendency of the fluid to flow within the chamber;
- a dispensing device configured to move the fluid in the chamber towards an exit of the chamber such that the fluid is dispensed through the exit of the chamber;
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- a nozzle comprising:
- a body having a first end and a second end;
- an input located at the first end of the body and configured to receive the fluid from the exit of the chamber;
- an output located at the second end of the body;
- and
- a plurality of channels located within the body in which the plurality of channels has a configuration that causes the fluid received through the input to flow through the plurality of channels and exit the output to form a deposition having a desired shape over an interface.
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A fluid dispensing system comprising:
- a housing having a chamber configured to receive a fluid in which the chamber is configured to increase a tendency of the fluid to flow within the chamber;
- a dispensing device configured to move the fluid in the chamber towards an exit of the chamber such that the fluid is dispensed through the exit of the chamber;
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- a nozzle comprising:
- a body having a first end and a second end in which the body includes a first section that extends from the first end to a plane through the body and a second section that extends from the plane to the second end of the body;
- a plurality of channels located within the body and having a plurality of openings in which the plurality of channels has a configuration that includes a diameter profile and an arrangement;
- an input located at the first end of the body and configured to receive the fluid from the exit of the chamber;
- a cavity configured to receive the fluid from the input;
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- an output located at the second end of the body and formed by the plurality of openings of the plurality of channels in which the configuration of the plurality of channels causes the fluid flowing through the plurality of channels to exit the output with a desired velocity profile and a desired pressure profile to form a deposition having a desired shape over an interface in which the interface is selected from one of a seam interface, a cross-seam interface, a fastener interface, a corner interface, and a step interface.
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A nozzle comprising:
- a body having a first end and a second end;
- an input located at the first end of the body and configured to receive a fluid;
- an output located at the second end of the body;
- and
- a plurality of channels located within the body in which the plurality of channels has a configuration that causes the fluid received through the input to flow through the plurality of channels and exit the output to form a deposition having a desired shape over an interface.
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A method for depositing a fluid over an interface, the method comprising:
- moving, by a dispensing device, the fluid within a chamber in a housing towards an exit of the chamber such that the fluid is dispensed through the exit of the chamber;
- receiving the fluid from the exit of the chamber at an input of a nozzle located at a first end of a body of the nozzle;
- moving the fluid from the input through a plurality of channels located within the body such that the fluid exits the plurality of channels at an output of the nozzle located at a second end of the body;
- depositing the fluid that exits the output of the nozzle over the interface to form a deposition;
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- controlling a flow of the fluid through the plurality of channels by a configuration of the plurality of channels such that the deposition of the fluid over the interface has a desired shape.
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A method for depositing a fluid over an interface using a nozzle, the method comprising:
- positioning the nozzle relative to the interface in which the nozzle comprises a body having a first end and a second end in which the second end of the body has a selected shape that allows the second end to be positioned within a desired distance from the interface;
- moving, by a dispensing device, the fluid within a chamber in a housing of a fluid dispensing system towards an exit of the chamber such that the fluid is dispensed through the exit of the chamber;
- receiving the fluid within a cavity in a first section of the body from the exit of the chamber through an input of the nozzle;
- moving the fluid from the cavity in the first section to a plurality of channels in a second section of the body such that the fluid exits the plurality of channels at an output of the nozzle located at the second end of the body;
- depositing the fluid that exits the output of the nozzle over the interface to form a deposition in which the interface is selected from one of a seam interface, a cross-seam interface, a fastener interface, a corner interface, and a step interface;
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- controlling a flow of the fluid through the plurality of channels by a configuration of the plurality of channels such that the fluid exits the output of the nozzle with a desired velocity profile and a desired pressure profile to form the deposition having a desired shape.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.