Patents Assigned to Trinity Industrial Corporation
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Patent number: 8006921Abstract: For providing a coating material cartridge capable of reliably discharging air and coating material stagnated in a hydraulic fluid chamber, a coating material cartridge has a cartridge main body, a partition body, a coating material transfer path and a plurality of hydraulic fluid transfer paths. The cartridge main body is detachably attached to a coating material filling device. The partition body partitions the inner region of the cartridge main body into a coating material chamber and a hydraulic fluid chamber. The coating material transfer path communicates the coating material chamber and the outer region of the cartridge main body, and each of the hydraulic fluid transfer paths communicates the hydraulic fluid chamber and a outer region of the cartridge main body. Each of the hydraulic fluid transfer paths has a plurality of openings that opens in the hydraulic fluid chamber and the distance for each of the openings from the connection end face is different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2007Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignees: Trinity Industrial Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Isamu Yamasaki, Takanobu Mori, Noriyuki Achiwa
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Patent number: 7959092Abstract: A coating machine enables the inside of a paint chamber to be washed clean with less amount of use of thinner by increasing washing efficiency and is capable of forming a coating with uniform coating thickness by always uniformly jetting a paint over 360° about a rotary atomizing head and the rotary atomizing head of the coating machine. The coating machine includes the rotary atomizing head in which the paint chamber is formed in the clearance between an outer bell fitted to the tip of a tubular rotating shaft and an inner bell fitted to the front side of the outer bell. Fins agitating, in the paint chamber, a washing fluid supplied from a thin tubular nozzle inserted into the tubular rotating shaft are radially formed on the rear surface side of the inner bell. An annular paint groove temporarily accumulating the paint is formed in the inner surface of the rim part of the outer bell on which the paint jetted from the paint jetting holes formed at the peripheral surface part of the paint chamber is extended.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2005Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Trinity Industrial CorporationInventors: Takao Nomura, Shigeyoshi Inada, Takashi Katsumata, Satoshi Takeda
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Patent number: 7954446Abstract: A hopper for cleaning a coating machine in which a rotary atomizing head extends through an opening in the upper surface of a hopper housing, a thinner for cleaning the rotary atomizing coating machine and a residual coating material are sprayed on the inside, an airstream control member for preventing flow from ascending from the inside of the housing to the outside of the housing through a gap between the coating machine and the opening by the rotation of the rotary atomizing head corresponding to the gap between the coating machine and the opening, and the control member is formed with an air vent hole for supplying air to a negative pressure zone formed just below the rotary atomizing head.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2005Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Trinity Industrial CorporationInventors: Shinichi Nakane, Takao Ueno, Koji Sakuraba
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Patent number: 7824525Abstract: A processing solution tank of forming an agitating flow by flowing and circulating a processing solution in directions opposite to each other between the side of a liquid surface and the side of a tank bottom, in which a guide plate substantially of an arcuate shape is formed to an end of the tank situated at least to the downstream on the side of the liquid surface or the downstream on the side of the tank bottom in the agitating flow for reversing the flow downward to the tank bottom or upward to the liquid surface, and a swirl chamber having a swirl generating portion of a substantially arcuate face for capturing dusts is provided at the bottom of the tank, whereby high quality surface treatment, for example, electrodeposition coating can be conducted by uniformly stirring the processing solution so as not to cause backflow or turbulence in the processing solution tank while dipping a work on a conveyor in the processing solution.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2007Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Trinity Industrial CorporationInventors: Hideaki Hara, Toshinori Watanabe
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Patent number: 7806074Abstract: A coating machine is capable of reducing VOC and CO2 by atomizing a paint to increase depositing efficiency without lowering production efficiency and the rotary atomizing head of the coating machine. The coating machine includes the rotary atomizing head in which a paint chamber receiving the supply of paint is formed on the rear side thereof. A plurality of rims formed in a roughly truncated conical shape for extending the paint flowing out of the paint chamber by a centrifugal force and atomizing the paint at the tip thereof are fitted in the rotary atomizing head overlappingly at specific clearances. The clearances are opened to the peripheral surface part of the paint chamber. Accordingly, VOC and CO2 can be reduced by reducing the total jetted amount of paint to enable the atomization of the paint at low rotating speeds so as the increase the deposit efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2005Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Trinity Industrial CorporationInventors: Takao Nomura, Shigeyoshi Inada, Takashi Katsumata
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Patent number: 7726586Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a rotary atomizing head that paint supplied to an inner peripheral surface is spread on the inner peripheral surface uniformly so as to improve the quality of coating and to lengthen the life of the rotary atomizing head. An inner peripheral surface 67 diametrically expanded from the center of the rotary atomizing head to a peripheral edge 61b is formed and centrifugal force generated by the rotation is applied on the paint supplied to the inner peripheral surface 67 so as to discharge the paint outside atomizingly. A step part 68 is formed at the middle portion of the inner peripheral surface 67 between paint supply holes 65d, supplying paint or solvent to the inner peripheral surface 67, and the peripheral edge 61b of the inner peripheral surface 67.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2005Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Trinity Industrial CorporationInventors: Masaru Murai, Makoto Ichimura
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Publication number: 20090314204Abstract: It is a subject to provide a coating material leakage detection device capable of finding contamination of a hydraulic fluid at an early stage and capable of preventing the degradation of a coating quality of a work. For this purpose, coating material leakage from a coating material chamber to a hydraulic fluid chamber in a coating material cartridge is detected by a coating material leakage detection device. The coating material cartridge is attached detachably to a coating material filling device, and the coating material chamber and the hydraulic fluid chamber are partitioned from each other by way of a deformable partition body. Further, the coating material leakage detection device has a contaminant detection means for detecting the contaminant in the hydraulic fluid attributable to the coating material leakage. Accordingly, contamination of the hydraulic fluid can be found at an early stage.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2007Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicants: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takanobu Mori, Noriyuki Achiwa
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Publication number: 20090277530Abstract: According to the present invention, even though the paint is filled or discharged repetitively to or from the paint bag (5), so that bursting of a coating bag (5) or lack of coating material during coating are not caused by accumulation of error between the filling amount and the using amount. That is, before a predetermined amount of the coating material is supplied to the coating material bag (5), the remaining coating material in the coating material bag (5) is extruded to empty it, since the coating material bag (5) is squashed by the pressure of fluid which was supplied to the hydraulic fluid chamber (6) outside of the bag.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2006Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicants: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takao Nomura, Shigeyoshi Inada, Noriyuki Achiwa, Takanobu Mori, Kengo Honma, Akira Kato, Yasushi Ogawa
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Publication number: 20090056621Abstract: For providing a coating material cartridge capable of reliably discharging air and coating material stagnated in a hydraulic fluid chamber, a coating material cartridge has a cartridge main body, a partition body, a coating material transfer path and a plurality of hydraulic fluid transfer paths. The cartridge main body is detachably attached to a coating material filling device. The partition body partitions the inner region of the cartridge main body into a coating material chamber and a hydraulic fluid chamber. The coating material transfer path communicates the coating material chamber and the outer region of the cartridge main body, and each of the hydraulic fluid transfer paths communicates the hydraulic fluid chamber and a outer region of the cartridge main body. Each of the hydraulic fluid transfer paths has a plurality of openings that opens in the hydraulic fluid chamber and the distance for each of the openings from the connection end face is different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2007Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicants: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Isamu Yamasaki, Takanobu Mori, Noriyuki Achiwa
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Publication number: 20090038660Abstract: Upward whirling of a coating material through a gap between a coating machine and an opening is prevented without using a shaping air upon cleaning a coating machine in a cleaning hopper by supplying a thinner to the coating machine and rotating a rotary atomizing head at a high speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2005Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Nakane, Takao Ueno, Koji Sakuraba
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Publication number: 20080245296Abstract: A coating machine is capable of reducing VOC and CO2 by atomizing a paint to increase depositing efficiency without lowering production efficiency and the rotary atomizing head of the coating machine. The coating machine includes the rotary atomizing head in which a paint chamber receiving the supply of paint is formed on the rear side thereof. A plurality of rims formed in a roughly truncated conical shape for extending the paint flowing out of the paint chamber by a centrifugal force and atomizing the paint at the tip thereof are fitted in the rotary atomizing head overlappingly at specific clearances. The clearances are opened to the peripheral surface part of the paint chamber. Accordingly, VOC and CO2 can be reduced by reducing the total jetted amount of paint to enable the atomization of the paint at low rotating speeds so as the increase the deposit efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2005Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventors: Takao Nomura, Shigeyoshi Inada, Takashi Katsumata
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Publication number: 20080234985Abstract: Appropriate performance design of various mechanisms, e.g. a mist removing filter, employed in post-paint treatment of various mechanisms, e.g. a deodorizer, employed in post-dry treatment is realized. Paint weight calculation is executed. Firstly, the amount of dry adhered paint is calculated by multiplying the work area by a coating thickness distribution value and stored, and the weight of dry adhering paint is calculated by multiplying the amount of dry adhering paint by the specific gravity of the dry paint and stored. Meanwhile, the weight of dry paint or the weight of dry paint sprayed from a paint machine is calculated by multiplying the weight of sprayed paint by a paint NV and stored, the weight of dry non-adhered paint is calculated by subtracting the weight of dry adhering paint from the weight of dry sprayed paint and stored, and then capacities of various mechanisms are designed using it.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2005Publication date: September 25, 2008Applicant: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Kuwashima, Shinichi Nakane, Anhui Cai
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Patent number: 7377451Abstract: A jet dispersing device includes a high pressure region having a flow inlet and a low pressure region having a flow outlet. A partition wall is positioned within the high pressure region such that the high pressure region is partitioned from the low pressure region. Additionally, the partition wall may be provided with at least one nozzle hole configured to jet a liquid from the high pressure region to the low pressure region such that the liquid is dispersed as fine particles. The partitioning wall may also have a cleaning fluid communication port having an opening area which is larger than an opening area of the at least one nozzle. Additionally, a valve mechanism configured to open and close the cleaning fluid communication port may also be provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2004Date of Patent: May 27, 2008Assignee: Trinity Industrial CorporationInventors: Takao Nomura, Katsuhiro Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20070240645Abstract: A coating machine enables the inside of a paint chamber to be washed clean with less amount of use of thinner by increasing washing efficiency and is capable of forming a coating with uniform coating thickness by always uniformly jetting a paint over 360° about a rotary atomizing head and the rotary atomizing head of the coating machine. The coating machine includes the rotary atomizing head in which the paint chamber is formed in the clearance between an outer bell fitted to the tip of a tubular rotating shaft and an inner bell fitted to the front side of the outer bell. Fins agitating, in the paint chamber, a washing fluid supplied from a thin tubular nozzle inserted into the tubular rotating shaft are radially formed on the rear surface side of the inner bell. An annular paint groove temporarily accumulating the paint is formed in the inner surface of the rim part of the outer bell on which the paint jetted from the paint jetting holes formed at the peripheral surface part of the paint chamber is extended.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2005Publication date: October 18, 2007Applicant: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventors: Takao Nomura, Shigeyoshi Inada, Takashi Katsumata, Satoshi Takeda
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Publication number: 20070176018Abstract: In a case of disposing a jet dispersing device for jetting, spraying and mixing a main agent and a curing agent by passing them through fine nozzle holes in a coating material flow channel in an in-line arrangement, it is adapted such that a cleaning fluid can be caused to flow about at a flow rate capable of cleaning the coating material flow channel rapidly and reliably.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2004Publication date: August 2, 2007Applicant: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventors: Takao Nomura, Katsuhiro Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20070163886Abstract: A processing solution tank of forming an agitating flow by flowing and circulating a processing solution in directions opposite to each other between the side of a liquid surface and the side of a tank bottom, in which a guide plate substantially of an arcuate shape is formed to an end of the tank situated at least to the downstream on the side of the liquid surface or the downstream on the side of the tank bottom in the agitating flow for reversing the flow downward to the tank bottom or upward to the liquid surface, and a swirl chamber having a swirl generating portion of a substantially arcuate face for capturing dusts is provided at the bottom of the tank, whereby high quality surface treatment, for example, electrodeposition coating can be conducted by uniformly stirring the processing solution so as not to cause backflow or turbulence in the processing solution tank while dipping a work on a conveyor in the processing solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2007Publication date: July 19, 2007Applicant: TRINITY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventors: Hideaki HARA, Toshinori WATANABE
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Patent number: 7229541Abstract: A processing solution tank of forming an agitating flow by flowing and circulating a processing solution in directions opposite to each other between the side of a liquid surface and the side of a tank bottom, in which a guide plate substantially of an arcuate shape is formed to an end of the tank situated at least to the downstream on the side of the liquid surface or the downstream on the side of the tank bottom in the agitating flow for reversing the flow downward to the tank bottom or upward to the liquid surface, and a swirl chamber having a swirl generating portion of a substantially arcuate face for capturing dusts is provided at the bottom of the tank, whereby high quality surface treatment, for example, electrodeposition coating can be conducted by uniformly stirring the processing solution so as not to cause backflow or turbulence in the processing solution tank while dipping a work on a conveyor in the processing solution.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2004Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: Trinity Industrial CorporationInventors: Hideaki Hara, Toshinori Watanabe
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Patent number: 7156045Abstract: A coating machine having a coating material discharging mechanism for discharging a previously filled coating material under pressure to an atomizing mechanism wherein a coating material bag for filling a coating material is housed in a coating material discharging chamber of a predetermined volume and an inlet/exit port of an operating fluid is disposed for exerting a pressure from the outside of the coating material bag thereby discharging the coating material under pressure, while crushing the coating material bag, whereby paint or other coating material can be discharged under pressure reliably by a small driving force.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Trinity Industrial CorporationInventors: Takao Ueno, Takao Nomura
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Publication number: 20060162583Abstract: A liquid pressure transfer printing apparatus in which a work to be applied with transfer printing is urged onto a film for applying liquid pressure transfer printing supplied to the surface of a liquid in a tank for liquid pressure transfer printing to submerge the film into the liquid comprises a pair of gates each having a suction mechanism for sucking residues not transferred to the submerged work but remained on the surface of the liquid in the tank from the inlet side and the exit side of the tank while the work W is submerged in the liquid, thereby capable of preventing the residues of the film remained on the surface of the liquid in the tank not transferred to the surface of the work from depositing to the surface of the work and forming seeds.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2005Publication date: July 27, 2006Applicant: Trinity Industrial CorporationInventors: Masato Yamamori, Shinya Tsujimoto
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Publication number: 20060060291Abstract: A hydraulic decalcomania transferring apparatus having residue discharging mechanism in which a vacuum chamber for sucking residues of a decalcomania transferring film floating on the water surface in a decalcomania transferring tank through a pipe from a sucking port is disposed to the outside of the tank, and the vacuum chamber has a discharge port for discharging the residues and water sucked in the chamber, and a drain valve for opening and closing the discharge port, whereby the residues of the decalcomania transferring film can be discharged rapidly in a short time to the outside of the tank and deposition of the residues to the surface of a work to possibly cause seediness can be prevented reliably.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2005Publication date: March 23, 2006Applicant: Trinity Industrial CorporationInventors: Masato Yamamori, Tatsuki Ochiai