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US 8,601,977 B2Granted
Spray coating control device
AssigneeITW Gema AG
InventorsFelix Mauchle, Christian Marxer
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Abstract
An electronic spraycoating control device for implementing spraycoating methods includes at least one manually driven program selecting element for selecting programs from two different groups of programs. The electronic spraycoating control device further includes a plurality of manually driven parameter setting elements and display units to automatically display the adjusted parameter references values.
Claims14
An electronic spraycoating control device for controlling a spraycoating operation of a spraycoating unit, the device comprising:
- a plurality of spray coating programs divided into a first group of programs and a second group of programs, each program from the first group of programs and from the second group of programs having a plurality of adjustable parameters of the spraycoating operation;
- a first program selecting element for selecting the first group of programs;
- at least one second program selecting element different from the first program selecting element and for selecting the second group of programs;
- manually driven parameter setting elements different from the first and the second program selecting elements and for setting parameter reference values for the adjustable parameters of the first and second groups of programs;
- optical display units associated with the first and the second groups of programs to automatically display the set parameter reference values;
- at least one program from the second group of programs being selectable, by activation of the at least one second program selecting element, and including at least one adjustable parameter of the first group of programs and at least one fixed parameter of the second group of programs, wherein the at least one fixed parameter from the second group of programs is one of the adjustable parameters from the first group of programs;
- two program switching elements configured such that each actuation of one of the two program switching elements activates another program from the first group of programs in an ascending sequence, and each actuation of the other program switching element activates yet another program from the first group of programs in a reverse sequence;
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- an optical display configured to display an identification of the currently activated program from the first group of programs,
- wherein the at least one adjustable parameter is selected from the group consisting of a rate of coating powder fed to a spray gun, an electrode spray current, and a rate of compressed air supplied to fluidize the coating powder in the supply container.
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An electronic spraycoating control device for controlling a spraycoating operation of a spraycoating unit, the device comprising:
- a plurality of spray coating programs all sharing a same set of parameters of the spraycoating operation;
- different said programs having different sets of preset values for said parameters;
- said plurality of spray coating programs being divided into a first group of programs and a second group of programs;
- the preset values of the parameters of each program from the first group of programs being adjustable;
- at least one of the preset values of the parameters of each program from the second group of programs being fixed and not adjustable;
- a first program selecting element for selecting the first group of programs;
- multiple second program selecting elements different from the first program selecting element;
- manually driven parameter setting elements different from the program selecting elements and for adjusting the adjustable preset values of the parameters of a currently selected program;
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- multiple optical display units each for displaying the preset or adjusted value of one of the parameters of the currently selected program,
- wherein the at least one adjustable parameter is selected from the group consisting of a rate of coating powder fed to a spray gun, an electrode spray current, and a rate of compressed air supplied to fluidize the coating powder in the supply container.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.