Alternative e-coat dipping process
AssigneeFord Motor Company
InventorsThomas Norton, Kevin Ellwood
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Abstract
The present disclosure includes a method for coating a vehicle body-in-white (BIW) in a tank of processing fluid. In one form, the method includes lowering the vehicle BIW in a tank of processing fluid, rotating the vehicle BIW around its lateral axis until the vehicle BIW is completely submerged in the processing fluid, and simultaneously conveying the vehicle BIW along a longitudinal axis of the tank while rotating the vehicle BIW around its longitudinal axis in a “corkscrew” type movement.
Claims20
A method of coating a vehicle body-in-white (BIW) in a tank of processing fluid comprising:
- lowering the vehicle BIW head-first into the tank of processing fluid;
- rotating the vehicle BIW around a lateral axis until the vehicle BIW is completely submerged in the processing fluid;
- and
- simultaneously conveying the vehicle BIW along a longitudinal axis of the tank while rotating the vehicle BIW at a constant depth around a longitudinal axis of the vehicle BIW.
A method of coating a vehicle body-in-white (BIW) in a tank of processing fluid comprising:
- lowering the vehicle BIW into the tank of processing fluid until the vehicle BIW is completely submerged in the processing fluid;
- and
- simultaneously conveying the vehicle BIW along a longitudinal axis of the tank while rotating the vehicle BIW at a constant depth around a longitudinal axis of the vehicle BIW.
A method of coating a component in a tank of processing fluid comprising:
- lowering the component into the tank of processing fluid until the component is completely submerged in the processing fluid;
- and
- simultaneously conveying the component along a longitudinal axis of the tank while rotating the component at a constant depth around a longitudinal axis of the component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.