Painting robot
AssigneeABB Schweiz AG
InventorKisumi Iida
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Abstract
A painting robot paints a painting area of a vehicle body, and comprises: includes a painting head having a plurality of nozzles for ejecting drops of paint supplied from an external supply path via an internal flow path; a robot arm which has the painting head mounted on a tip end thereof and causes the painting head to move to a desired position; and an arm control unit for controlling operation of the robot arm. The arm control unit controlling controls operation of the robot arm so that supply vibration for supplying the paint to the internal flow path is applied to the painting head before the painting area is painted.
Claims9
A painting robot for painting a painting area of a vehicle body, the painting robot comprising:
- a painting head having a plurality of nozzles for ejecting drops of paint supplied from an external supply path via an internal flow path;
- a robot arm which has the painting head mounted on a tip end thereof and causes the painting head to move to a desired position;
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- an arm control unit for controlling operation of the robot arm,
- wherein the arm control unit controls operation of the robot arm so that supply vibration for supplying the paint to the internal flow path is applied to the painting head before the painting area is painted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.