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.
Claims7
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.
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.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.