Method and system for applying a coating material using a programmable robot
AssigneeDürr Systems AG
InventorsLothar Rademacher, Martin Wolf
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Abstract
In order to program the sealing membranes to be applied to attachment parts of vehicle bodies, for example to the edge-formed seam of vehicle doors using a robot, an attachment part may be removed from the body and, away from the latter, be mounted on a teach frame where all regions of the attachment part which need to be coated are highly visible to the programmer during programming.
Claims20
A method for applying a coating material onto components of work pieces to be processed in series using a programmable coating robot with several axes, comprising:
- programming at least one application path to be taken by the coating robot to generate the control program to be executed by the coating robot in the serial coating of the components of the work piece, an application tool being moved along the application path on a sample component of the work piece as if the sample component were assembled with at least one other component to form the work piece, the sample component corresponding to the components to be coated in series when part of the work piece, and
- coating the components of the work piece automatically, wherein the coating robot is controlled by the control program,
- wherein the sample component is removed from the work piece and mounted on a programming framework prior to the programming so that the application tool is moved on the sample component without the work piece during the programming.
A coating system for applying a coating material onto components of work pieces to be processed in series using a programmable coating robot with several axes, the system comprising:
- an application tool configured to move along an application path on a sample component as if the sample component were assembled with at least one other component to form the work piece, the sample component corresponding to components to be automatically coated in series by the coating robot when part of the work piece;
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- wherein the sample component is removed from the work piece and mounted on a programming framework prior to programming the coating robot so that the application tool is moved on the sample component without the work piece during the programming.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.