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US 2026/0070190 A1Published application
Aircraft paint removing apparatus and method
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
InventorsJun Fujita, Masayuki Yamajo
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Abstract
Provided in an aircraft paint removing apparatus and method are: a movable traveling carrier; a blaster head mounted on the traveling carrier and configured to spray blasting material; a lifting unit configured to move the blaster head in a vertical direction; and a moving unit configured to move the blaster head in a horizontal direction.
Claims11
An aircraft paint removing apparatus comprising:
- a movable traveling carrier;
- a blaster head mounted on the traveling carrier and configured to spray blasting material;
- a lifting unit configured to move the blaster head in a vertical direction;
- and
- a moving unit configured to move the blaster head in a horizontal direction.
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An aircraft paint removing method comprising the steps of:
- moving a blaster head closer to a fuselage of an aircraft by moving a traveling carrier, and spraying blasting material onto an upper surface of a horizontal wing of the aircraft,
- performing an operation of moving the blaster head closer to the fuselage of the aircraft and an operation of moving the blaster head in a horizontal direction, alternatingly;
- and
- moving the blaster head in the vertical direction depending on a height of the upper surface of the horizontal wing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.