Coating system and coating method
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
InventorKatsuhiko YOSHINO
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Abstract
A coating system includes a coating robot and an operation robot. The coating robot has a height and is mounted in a coating booth to coat a workpiece while the workpiece is conveyed in the coating booth in a conveyance direction substantially perpendicular to a height direction along the height. The workpiece including a body and a movable part movable with respect to the body. The operation robot is disposed in the coating booth below the coating robot in the height direction. The operation robot is movable in the coating booth in the conveyance direction and is configured to move the movable part of the workpiece.
Claims22
A coating system comprising:
- a coating robot having a height and mounted in a coating booth to coat a workpiece while the workpiece is conveyed in the coating booth in a conveyance direction substantially perpendicular to a height direction along the height, the workpiece including a body and a movable part movable with respect to the body;
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- an operation robot disposed in the coating booth below the coating robot in the height direction, the operation robot being movable in the coating booth in the conveyance direction and being configured to move the movable part of the workpiece.
A coating method comprising:
- controlling an operation robot provided in a coating booth to move a movable part of a workpiece with respect to a body of the workpiece while the workpiece is conveyed in the coating booth in a conveyance direction;
- controlling the operation robot to follow the workpiece while the workpiece is conveyed in a state where the movable part is moved with respect to the body;
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- controlling a coating robot to coat the workpiece exposed through the movable part while the workpiece is conveyed in a state where the coating robot is mounted in the coating booth such that the operation robot is below the coating robot in a height direction along a height of the coating robot, the height direction being substantially perpendicular to the conveyance direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.