With Hood Or Offtake For Waste Material Patents (Class 118/326)
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Publication number: 20140326181Abstract: A deposition apparatus includes: a chamber; a stage disposed in the chamber and equipped with a substrate; a nozzle unit disposed to face the substrate and configured to spray a deposition material toward the substrate; and a collector unit surrounding the nozzle unit and configured to collect a residual deposition material not deposited on the substrate. The collector unit includes a collection surface for collecting the residual deposition material and a collection pipe for transferring the collected residual deposition material outside the chamber. Thus, a loss of the deposition material may be minimized during a deposition process.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2013Publication date: November 6, 2014Inventor: Sang-Hoon Kim
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Publication number: 20140311406Abstract: Spray booth (21) for applying paint on basically flat parts (22), said spray booth having a plenum (24) and comprising a conveying system (25) for conveying the flat parts (22) to be painted, at least a device (23) for applying paint on said moving parts, and at least a suction system, wherein the plenum (24) of the spray booth has a semi-cylindrical shape, having its axis perpendicular to the direction of the advancing part (22).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2014Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: CEFLA SOCIETA' COOPERATIVAInventors: RICCARDO BEDESCHI, ANDREA LUCA GUIDUZZI, STEFANO CHIARINI
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Patent number: 8844463Abstract: A pipe conditioning tool comprising a drive unit to move the tool along a pipe and a work head rotatable about an axis of the pipe to condition a surface of the pipe, the drive unit includes a frame extending to opposite sides of the pipe, the frame having legs extending radially beyond the work head to provide support for the tool upon removal from said pipe.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2012Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Automatic Coating LimitedInventor: Brad Bamford
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Patent number: 8826565Abstract: An automotive paint spray and drying booth having a plurality of walls which, together, define a housing with a chamber sufficient in size to contain an automotive vehicle. An air dispenser is positioned within the chamber and the air dispenser includes an outlet positioned to direct air along one or more of the housing walls. A regenerative blower is positioned outside the housing chamber. The blower is connected to an inlet open outside of the housing chamber and includes an outlet which is fluidly connected to the air nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2012Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Hahn Marketing LLCInventors: Paul Hahn, Richard J. Hahn
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Patent number: 8828182Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention generally provide plasma etch process chamber improvements. An improved gas injection nozzle is provided for use at a central location of the lid of the chamber. The gas injection nozzle may be used in an existing plasma etch chamber and is configured to provide a series of conic gas flows across the surface of a substrate positioned within the chamber. In one embodiment, an improved exhaust kit for use in the plasma etch chamber is provided. The exhaust kit includes apparatus that may be used in an existing plasma etch chamber and is configured to provide annular flow of exhaust gases from the processing region of the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2011Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Stanley Detmar, Brian T. West, Ronald Vern Schauer
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Patent number: 8813679Abstract: A paint mist collecting device for collecting a mist of paint particles produced when a paint is sprayed onto a workpiece within a paint booth includes a tubular duct having one end adapted to be connected to an outlet of the paint booth from which air containing the paint mist and a cleaning air are allowed to flow out, and a swirl-generating guide fin unit disposed inside the tubular duct and configured to force axial flows of the paint-mist-containing air and the cleaning liquid into a rotational movement to thereby generate a helical vortex as the paint-mist-containing air and the cleaning liquid flow downward along the tubular duct.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masanobu Imano, Takayuki Tahara
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Filter device, painting booth using filter device, and simplified painting booth using filter device
Patent number: 8801820Abstract: Distribution of a precoat agent is made uniform in a target gas directing to a filter. To this end, an intake opening of a filter device is formed as a slit-like or rectangular opening extending in a width direction. An accumulation recess is formed in an upper edge portion of the intake opening to have a profile that opens downward as viewed from a longitudinal direction of the intake opening. The accumulation recess is continuously formed in the longitudinal direction of the intake opening. A precoat agent nozzle is provided in a longitudinal predetermined position of the intake opening for ejecting the precoat agent and carrier gas toward an inner depth surface of the accumulation recess.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2010Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Taikisha Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Iwakiri -
Publication number: 20140196661Abstract: A spray system sprays an object within an enclosure. A plurality of gutters affixed to sidewalls of the enclosure catch excess spray for reuse. The gutters are affixed to sidewalls and hold a garment such that a shield is formed that protects the areas under a platen from overspray.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Inventor: BRIAN WALKER
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Patent number: 8770143Abstract: The various embodiments of the invention provide for relative movement of the substrate and a process head to access the entire wafer in a minimal space to conduct combinatorial processing on various regions of the substrate. The heads enable site isolated processing within the chamber described and method of using the same are described.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2011Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Intermolecular, Inc.Inventors: Rick Endo, Kurt Weiner, Indranil De, James Tsung, Maosheng Zhao
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Patent number: 8757087Abstract: A device for coating an exterior of an elongate object includes a housing structure with an elongate chamber having first and second opposite ends. A port communicates with the first end for receiving the elongate object and an outlet is located at the second end. An air supply passage and a coating material supply passage communicate with the elongate chamber. Pressurized air and coating material are adapted to enter the elongate chamber through the air supply passage and the coating material supply passage, respectively, to form a mist in the elongate chamber moving toward the outlet while coating the exterior of the object. A method of coating an exterior surface of the elongate object with the coating material includes holding the elongate object lengthwise in the elongate chamber, mixing the pressurized air and the coating material to form a mist, and coating the exterior surface while directing the mist around the exterior surface and toward the outlet of the elongate chamber.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2011Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Nordson CorporationInventors: Andreas Doker, Thomas Wanka, Michael Wilczek
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Patent number: 8726832Abstract: A painting system having a painting robot with a stationary base mounted to a wall of a paint booth in cantilever fashion. A stand is mounted to the stationary base and is rotatable around a first axis that is disposed substantially horizontal. A first arm is rotatably mounted to the stand around a second axis, and a second arm is rotatably mounted to the first arm around a third axis. The second arm is operable to rotate around the third axis 180 degrees relative to the first arm. An end effector is connected between the second arm and a painting tool. The end effector is operable to orient the painting tool.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2008Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: ABB ASInventors: Arnulf Krogedal, Gisle Bryne
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Publication number: 20140134339Abstract: In order to provide a painting installation for painting workpieces, which is compact in configuration and allows a reliable separation of paint overspray from a raw gas flow, the painting installation includes the following: a painting booth, in which the workpieces are paintable with paint; a conveying device, by means of which the workpieces to be painted are conveyable in a conveying direction through the painting booth; a separation and/or filter system for cleaning a raw gas flow, which is leaving the painting booth and has absorbed paint overspray in the painting booth, wherein the separation and/or filter system includes at least one filter device for separating the paint overspray from the raw gas flow; and at least one clean gas line for a clean gas flow, which is obtainable by cleaning the raw gas flow by means of the at least one filter device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2014Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: Dürr Systems GmbHInventors: Sebastian Holler, Jan Scheerer, Jens Holzheimer, Dietmar Wieland, Michael Baitinger, Wolfgang Tobisch
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Patent number: 8714101Abstract: A powder spray for lengthy parts includes a booth wall structure comprised primarily of doors. A moveable roof may be raised and lowered to clean powder overspray from the interior surfaces of the booth. A cleaning process may be performed with a sideways extraction mode and a downward extraction mode. The mode change occurs when a bulkhead that travels with the moveable roof blocks the inlet duct to the recovery system. The recovery system may be a cyclone system for example. The doors of the booth are hinged so that they can be positioned for spraying operations and cleaning operations. Live hinge designs are provided and hose stress relief designs are also provided. The roof may carry accumulators for pressurized air that feed cleaning nozzles as the roof descends. In addition, exhaust air may be used to assist cleaning the interior surfaces as the roof descends. All of the energy provided for cleaning and color change may be provided by accumulators.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2012Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Nordson CorporationInventors: Jeffrey R. Shutic, Joseph G. Schroeder, Jeffrey E. Dailidas, Kenneth Kreeger
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Patent number: 8689458Abstract: A method of painting a five-sided container, which includes applying a water-based paint to the interior surfaces and the exterior surfaces of the container, and forcing heated air into the open side of the container to at least partially dry the paint on the interior surfaces and the exterior surfaces of the container.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2010Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Valspar Sourcing, IncInventor: William C. Nowack
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Patent number: 8689730Abstract: A robotic painting system includes an applicator, a first paint metering device in fluid communication with the applicator, a second paint metering device in fluid communication with the paint applicator, and a paint supply in fluid communication with each the paint metering devices to fill at least one of the paint metering devices with a desired amount of paint, wherein each of the paint metering devices is electrostatically isolated from the paint supply, and wherein a color change time and a paint waste are minimized and a cleaning operation of the system is optimized.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2010Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Fanuc Robotics America, Inc.Inventor: Scott J. Clifford
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Patent number: 8671876Abstract: A system and method for managing energy usage in a manufacturing facility includes harvesting the thermal properties of paint particulate wash for pre-conditioning air that is drawn into the building. The drawn-in air may be conditioned to a target temperature by an air makeup unit and then used in a painting operation wherein the air is subsequently passed through a water wash unit. Heat exchangers in thermal communication with the water inside the wash unit enable heat to either be transferred from the water to the air makeup unit, or vice versa. One or more ovens may have their energy usage managed in such a manner that they switch between using gas heat and electrical heat. Such management may take into account the daily variation in electrical rates, as well as the total amount of electrical usage currently being drawn by the electrical utility customer.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2010Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Thierica Equipment CorporationInventor: Louis F. McGough
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Patent number: 8667926Abstract: A painting robot includes a fixing unit fixed to a sidewall of a painting booth; a swivel unit provided to swivel with respect to the fixing unit; an arm provided to the swivel unit; and a painting gun provided in a tip end portion of the arm. The fixing unit includes a fixing surface fixed to the sidewall of the painting booth; and a cable lead-in portion provided on the fixing surface to lead a cable into the painting robot therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2011Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventor: Shingi Takahashi
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Patent number: 8656936Abstract: Apparatuses, and related methods, for processing a workpiece that include a particular barrier structure that can overlie and cover a workpiece. Apparatuses, and related methods, for processing a workpiece that include a particular movable member that can be positioned over and moved relative to a workpiece. Apparatuses, and related methods, for processing a workpiece that include a particular ceiling structure that can overlie a processing chamber. Nozzle devices, and related methods, that include a particular annular body. Nozzle devices, and related methods, that include a particular first, second, and third nozzle structure.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2008Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Tel FSI, Inc.Inventors: Jimmy D. Collins, Samuel A. Cooper, James M. Eppes, Alan D. Rose, Kader Mekias
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Patent number: 8657933Abstract: A powder cyclone separator for use in a powder coating system is formed in two separate and separable sections. An upper section is mounted on a first frame and remains stationary. A lower section is mounted on a second frame that is movable laterally away from the first frame so that an operator has more ready access to clean interior surfaces of the upper section. Optionally, actuators may be provided to raise and lower the cyclone lower section with respect to the cyclone upper section. Optional alignment means are presented for aligning the cyclone upper and lower sections. A control mechanism may be mounted on the second frame which includes a switch that is operable to raise and lower the lower section with respect to the upper section. This design allows an operator to see and verify that virtually all internal surfaces of the cyclone have been cleaned.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Nordson CorporationInventors: Larry C. Jancik, William C. Coomer, III, Greg Dawson, Michael Thomas, Francis Patrick Mohar
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Publication number: 20140041578Abstract: A modular tire spraying system includes a downdraft spray booth for receiving a tire, a fluid delivery system disposed in the spray booth, a robot for transporting the tire to the spray booth, and a platform on which each of the spray booth, the fluid delivery system, and the robot is disposed. The fluid delivery system includes at least one spray gun for delivering a coating to the tire.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Inventor: Todd E. Hendricks, SR.
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Patent number: 8646404Abstract: A modular tire spraying system includes a downdraft spray booth for receiving a tire, a fluid delivery system disposed in the spray booth, a robot for transporting the tire to the spray booth, and a platform on which each of the spray booth, the fluid delivery system, and the robot is disposed. The fluid delivery system includes at least one spray gun for delivering a coating to the tire.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2011Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Inventor: Todd E. Hendricks, Sr.
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Patent number: 8631758Abstract: A drum coating device for coating work-pieces includes a main body, a support element, a cleaning device, a spraying device, a rotary drum device, a heating device, and a drive device. The main body defines a receiving room. The support element is received in the receiving room and defines slots for receiving the work-pieces. The cleaning device cleans the work-pieces. The spraying device sprays coating materials to the work-pieces. The rotary drum device uniformly coats the coating materials on the work-pieces. The heating device heats the coating materials coated on the work-pieces. The drive device includes a rotating drive rotating the support element and a linear drive raising or lowering the support element in the receiving room.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2010Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shao-Kai Pei
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Patent number: 8627780Abstract: Exemplary painting devices for painting components, e.g., motor vehicle bodies or parts thereof, and associated exemplary methods are disclosed. An exemplary painting device may include a multi-axis painting robot positioning an atomizer, a robot controller for controlling the painting robot, and a controls enclosure comprising the robot controller. An exemplary controls enclosure may be a load-bearing column that mechanically supports the painting robot.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2009Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Durr Systems GmbHInventors: Frank Herre, Jürgen Haas, Thomas Hezel, Bernd Leiensetter
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Patent number: 8622019Abstract: A coating device includes an autoclave and a spray member. The autoclave includes an autoclave body and a cover sealing the autoclave body. The autoclave body defines a plurality of holding grooves in an inner surface thereof for holding substrates. The spray member is positioned on the cover and received in the autoclave body. The spray member defines openings in a side surface thereof. The spray member includes a container and an ultrasonic atomization unit. The container defines a cavity in communication with the openings. The ultrasonic atomization unit is received in the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2010Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shao-Kai Pei
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Patent number: 8607728Abstract: Air is continuously supplied into upper spaces via an air supply duct, during coating of an object to be coated in a paint booth, whereby the air is jetted through jetting holes and flows downwards along side walls. The air flowing downwards along the side walls is sucked into lower spaces, via clearances, and is discharged out of the paint booth via air exhaust ducts.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2011Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Nihon Parkerizing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Katsutoshi Kouzoe
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Patent number: 8584616Abstract: In order to separate an overspray of a liquid coating material from an air current flowing through the application region of a coating system, an overspray present in the air current may be charged with a particulate auxiliary material introduced in the air current. The new or fresh auxiliary material may be delivered from a feed container via a line arrangement into a container arrangement located in a region of the fluid flow outlet, e.g., beneath the application region.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2008Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Durr Systems GmbHInventors: Hans-Georg Fritz, Jens Holzheimer, Dietmar Wieland
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Patent number: 8585854Abstract: The present invention involves a cover for a moveable spraying device of a robot which is formed from a polymer with enhanced residue retention properties. The polymer may be processed to increase the surface energy of the polymer. For example, the polymer may be subjected to a corona treatment in order to increase its surface energy. The corona treatment process may be performed on the polymer as received, prior to cutting or otherwise manipulating the polymer. Also, the polymer may be embossed to provide the enhancement. To assemble the polymer into a robot cover, the polymer as received may be cut into individual sections for assembly. The sections may then be assembled to one another by heat sealing the sections together. The heat sealing provides a bond between the individual sections of polymer that secures the individual sections together to create the robot cover.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2007Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Butterworth Industries, Inc.Inventor: Frank L. Butterworth, III
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Patent number: 8578877Abstract: The present invention provides a spin coater including a rotation table that rotatably holds the disc substrate, a spin-cup that surrounds the outer circumference of a disc substrate held on the rotation table, a dripping unit configured to drip an ultraviolet-curable resin composition onto the surface of the disc substrate, a rotating unit configured to rotate the disc substrate via the rotation table to spread the ultraviolet-curable resin composition over the surface of the disc substrate, a heating unit configured to heat the ultraviolet-curable resin composition on the disc substrate, and a temperature controlling unit configured to control a reaching temperature of the spin cup which is increased by the heating unit each time the ultraviolet-curable resin composition is spread, so as to be constant over multiple spin coating processes.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2008Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Yukitoshi Tajima
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Patent number: 8550030Abstract: An overspray reclaiming system is disclosed. The system may collect and reuse overspray produced when discharging material on an object to create a coating on the outer surface of the object. The system may generally include a housing in which an object may be sprayed, a holder for holding the object, a discharging device for discharging coating material onto an object, a vessel for collecting and/or treating overspray, and conduits and flow controllers for directing overspray to be reused. The discharging device and the holder object may be disposed within the housing. At least one porous material may be disposed between the discharging device and a wall of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2011Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Pei-Wei Chiang, Shi-Hsien Yeh
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Patent number: 8544409Abstract: A coating zone comprises a conveyor for transporting an application object. At least one guide rail extends through the coating zone adjacent the conveyor, arranged above the conveyor at a height at least at the level of the top of the object. At least one robot may move along the conveyor on the guide rail, the robot having a first axis for joint rotation of at least one moving member of the robot in relation to a main body guided along the guide rail. A load-bearing structure supports the at least one guide rail, the load-bearing structure including at least one load-bearing pillar extending substantially vertically downwards from the level of the guide rail. The guide rail and the main body of the robot are arranged in such a way that the first axis of the robot is inclined relative to a vertical plane parallel to the conveying direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2008Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Dürr Systems GmbHInventors: Frank Herre, Juergen Haas, Michael Baumann, Marcus Frey, Hans Vetters, Jan Grigoleit
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Patent number: 8539906Abstract: A substrate liquid processing apparatus of the present invention includes a guide rotary cup configured to guide a process-liquid scattering from a substrate rotating and being held by a substrate holding table and a guide cup configured to guide downward the process-liquid guided by the guide rotary cup. The guide cup includes a downward extension portion extending downward from an inner peripheral end portion of a guide cup body and an inner peripheral extension portion extending inward from the inner peripheral end portion more than the downward extension portion. The inner peripheral extension portion is configured to form a gas guide space together with the guide rotary cup and the downward extension portion so that a gas turning by the rotation of the guide rotary cup can be guided downward.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2011Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Nobuhiro Ogata, Shuichi Nagamine
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Patent number: 8535420Abstract: To provide a filter device for separating paint overspray from a raw gas flow containing overspray particles, including a casing, which delimits an interior of the filter device, in which at least one filter element is arranged, and at least one inlet channel, through which the raw gas flow enters the interior of the filter device, in which the raw gas flow is stabilized by the inlet channel even with high flow speeds in the constriction of the inlet channel, it is proposed that the filter device has an intake channel, which runs into the inlet channel upstream of an end of the inlet channel on the interior side and connects the inlet channel to the interior of the filter device.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2012Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Dürr Systems GmbHInventors: Sebastian Holler, Jens Holzheimer, Christof Knusel, Marius Winkler
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Patent number: 8499716Abstract: A portable overspray painting containment enclosure with an air curtain seal formed between the enclosure and a surface being painted that entrains overspray inside an air flow that is directed into the interior of the enclosure and through a filter system to prevent overspray from escaping into the atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2009Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Inventor: Richard James Norcross
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Patent number: 8485124Abstract: Disclosed is a silver thin film spread apparatus by means of deposition of nano metallic silver, the apparatus comprising: a treatment booth formed at one side with an inlet for inputting a substrate, and formed at the other side with an outlet for discharging the substrate; a transfer device formed at a lower side of the treatment booth for transferring the substrate; a spray device formed at an upper side of the treatment booth for spraying silver solution on a surface of the substrate; a moving device for linearly reciprocating the spray device; and a rotation device formed at the lower side of the treatment booth for rotating the substrate, whereby reflectivity can be enhanced by increasing film compactness and coating uniformity of thin film, where the substrate is rotated at a predetermined constant speed to allow the spray guns to linearly reciprocate and to allow the nano silver thin film to be uniformly spread and deposited on the surface of the substrate at a predetermined constant frequency.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: NANO CMS Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shi Surk Kim, Seong Uk Lee, Si Doo Kim
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Patent number: 8479753Abstract: A liquid processing apparatus includes a substrate holding member configured to rotate along with a substrate held thereon in a horizontal state; an annular rotary cup configured to surround the substrate held on the substrate holding member and to rotate along with the substrate; a rotation mechanism configured to integrally rotate the rotary cup and the substrate holding member; and a liquid supply mechanism configured to supply a process liquid onto the substrate. The apparatus further includes an annular drain cup configured to receive the process liquid discharged from the rotary cup, and provided with a drain port; and a circular flow generation element configured to generate a circular flow within the drain cup when the rotary cup and the substrate holding member are rotated, such that the circular flow serves to lead the process liquid within the drain cup to the drain port.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2007Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Hiromitsu Nanba, Norihiro Ito
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Patent number: 8453597Abstract: The invention relates to a paint shop, especially for elongate components, such as e.g. motor vehicle bumpers, motor vehicle sillboards or for components of aircraft and windpower installations. Said paint shop comprises a transport path (4) for transporting components (2) to be painted through the paint shop, a painting robot (13, 16) for painting the components (2) and a travel path (12, 15) for positioning the painting robot (13, 16) along the travel path (12, 15). The invention is characterized in that the travel path (12, 15) of the painting robot (13, 16) extends at a right angle to the transport path (4) for the components (2) to be painted. The invention also relates to a corresponding method of operation.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2007Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Dürr Systems GmbHInventors: Helmut Ansorge, Olaf Eckardt, Stefan Esslinger, Jurgen Benkiser
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Publication number: 20130122188Abstract: In a paint plant which comprises at least one spray-painting device incorporating at least one application unit for painting workpieces and in particular motor vehicle bodies with a fluid paint, in order to enable the fluid paint overspray i.e. the paint particles which are not adhering to the workpieces that are to be painted and which are picked up and carried along in an air flow passing through the application area of the paint shop, to be re-separated from this air flow and also to enable the cleansed air flow to be returned to the application area in an air re-circulating system or else expelled into the environment of the plant, the paint shop comprises a device for separating fluid paint overspray from a stream of crude gas that contains overspray particles wherein this device comprises at least one filter element for separating the overspray from the stream of crude gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2012Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: DURR SYSTEMS GMBHInventor: Durr Systems GmbH
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Patent number: 8413601Abstract: A coating device includes a table, a number of coating housings, a carrier, a number of conveyors, and a number of turntables. The coating housings are separately mounted on the table, and each including a hatch formed thereon. The hatches of all the coating housings face towards a same direction. The carrier are used for carrying one or more products to be coated. The conveyors are distributed on the table around each of the coating housing, and respectively extend into the inside of the coating housing through the hatch for delivering the carrier into the coating housings in turn. The turntables are installed between every two adjacent conveyors for transporting the carrier from a preceding conveyor to a succeeding conveyor according to a predefined route, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shao-Kai Pei
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Publication number: 20130078385Abstract: A modular tire spraying system includes a downdraft spray booth for receiving a tire, a fluid delivery system disposed in the spray booth, a robot for transporting the tire to the spray booth, and a platform on which each of the spray booth, the fluid delivery system, and the robot is disposed. The fluid delivery system includes at least one spray gun for delivering a coating to the tire.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2011Publication date: March 28, 2013Inventor: Todd E. Hendricks, SR.
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Publication number: 20130061802Abstract: A paint mist collecting device for collecting a mist of paint particles produced when a paint is sprayed onto a workpiece within a paint booth includes a tubular duct having one end adapted to be connected to an outlet of the paint booth from which air containing the paint mist and a cleaning air are allowed to flow out, and a swirl-generating guide fin unit disposed inside the tubular duct and configured to force axial flows of the paint-mist-containing air and the cleaning liquid into a rotational movement to thereby generate a helical vortex as the paint-mist-containing air and the cleaning liquid flow downward along the tubular duct.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2012Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masanobu IMANO, Takayuki TAHARA
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Patent number: 8393292Abstract: A painting system includes a conveyor, a first travel guide rail, a second travel guide rail, a painting robot, and an opener robot. The conveyor is configured to convey in a paint booth an article to be painted. The first travel guide rail is provided at a side of the conveyor to extend along the conveyor. The second travel guide rail is provided at a side of the conveyor to extend along the conveyor above the first travel guide rail. The painting robot is mounted on the first travel guide rail to be movable along the first travel guide rail. The opener robot is mounted on the second travel guide rail to be movable along the second travel guide rail. The painting robot and the opener robot are movable along the first travel guide rail and the second travel guide rail respectively without interfering with each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2009Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhiko Yoshino, Shingi Takahashi
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Patent number: 8377177Abstract: In order to provide a method for supplying fresh auxiliary material, which is added to a stream (120) of crude gas laden with wet paint overspray before the stream of crude gas passes through at least one filter element (172) for separating the overspray from the steam of crude gas, to at least one filter device (132) which comprises at least one receptacle (176) for auxiliary material, which is in its operating position, while the stream of crude gas is passing through the filter element, which method enables better action of the auxiliary material on the stream of crude gas and makes a particularly efficient supply of fresh auxiliary material to the at least one filter device possible, it is suggested that the fresh auxiliary material be supplied directly into the receptacle for auxiliary material while the receptacle for auxiliary material is in the operating position.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2010Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Durr Systems GmbHInventors: Jens Holzheimer, Dietmar Wieland
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Patent number: 8375887Abstract: The invention includes a lower guide unit which obliquely extends downward to an outside from a position closely opposed to a peripheral edge portion of a rear surface of the substrate held on the substrate holding unit, and is formed in an annular shape in a circumferential direction of the substrate; and an upper guide unit which has an upper end surface located at a substantially same height as a front surface of the substrate held on the substrate holding unit, forms a lower annular flow path between the upper guide unit and the lower guide unit for guiding downward together with a gas flow a treatment solution scattering from the substrate, is formed in an annular shape opposed to the lower guide unit to surround an outside lower region of the substrate, and has an inner peripheral surface having a longitudinal-sectional shape curved to bulge outward and extending downward.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2010Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Koji Takayanagi, Naofumi Kishita
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Patent number: 8371242Abstract: In a powder spraycoating cabin or substructure for same, a cabin bottom contains bottom flaps configured near outer longitudinal walls and a walk-on bottom part situated between the bottom flaps. The bottom flaps are rotatable about an axis of rotation running in the lengthwise cabin direction, as a result of which the width of lengthwise bottom gaps situated bilaterally about the flaps can be varied. A suction duct is situated underneath. The walk-on bottom part is fitted with compressed-air outlets to blow compressed air toward/into the lengthwise bottom gaps.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2005Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: ITW Gema GmbHInventor: Silvano Gelain
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Patent number: 8359997Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement of fixedly mounted painting robots in a painting booth, wherein the painting booth is subdivided by an imaginary vertical plane into a first spatial region and a second spatial region and wherein at least two painting robots with overlapping working areas are arranged in at least one of the two regions. A respective reference point of a painting robot is a point of intersection of a first axis of rotation with a painting robot base of the painting robot concerned. Each reference point is arranged above an imaginary horizontal plane which is determined by the vertically highest point of a predetermined object to be painted in the painting position, and the reference points are offset with respect to one another in the vertical direction and/or horizontally, transversely in relation to the vertical plane.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2008Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: ABB AGInventor: Frederik Vandepitte
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Patent number: 8354141Abstract: A liquid treatment apparatus treating a surface of a substrate held generally horizontally on a stage in a housing by supplying a treating liquid to said surface from a supply nozzle. The liquid treatment apparatus includes a cup body provided so as to surround the substrate held in the substrate holding part laterally, the cup body being mounted detachably to a base inside the housing from an upward direction thereof; a cup body holding part holding the cup body detachably; and an elevating mechanism moving the cup body holding part up and down between a first position at which the cup body is mounted upon the base body and a second position located above the first position.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2011Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Tsunenaga Nakashima, Gouichi Iwao, Naofumi Kishita, Nobuhiro Ogata
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Publication number: 20120308731Abstract: An adhesive applicator includes a base portion and an adhesive distributing portion. The base portion includes a first passageway extending from the exterior of the base portion to and through an integral cylindrical portion of the base portion. The adhesive distributing portion includes a plurality of passageways therethrough in communication with the first passageway of the base portion. The plurality of passageways of the adhesive distributing portion extend to the exterior of the adhesive distributing portion. An adhesive pump forces adhesive to and through the first passageway of the base portion and into and through the plurality of passageways of the adhesive distributing portion to the exterior of the adhesive distributing portion. Adhesive emanates from the exterior of the adhesive distributing portion under the force of the adhesive pump and coats the threads of an internally threaded device. Another example coats the threads of an externally threaded device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2011Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: FAIRFIELD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC.Inventor: ROYCE ALLEN SIMPSON
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Patent number: 8316794Abstract: The present invention concerns a system and device for self-tanning of the type comprising a booth (2) in which two lateral walls (5) have one or more lamps (52) protected by gratings (51) arranged to warm the area inside the booth and to radiate the skin of a person in the booth. The booth is provided with a spraying device (11) for nebulizing a tanning substance. The device comprises a Second control panel (6) connected to a means of management envisaged for activating and governing the diverse functions of the device under the control of an operator or of a user. The system comprises a series of operative phases which envisage, for a person who undergoes a self-tanning session: entering the booth; pressing start on the control panel; the lamps switching on for a preset time and switching off; a tanning solution being sprayed, followed by the lamps being switched on a second time to dry the tanning solution; the lamps being switched off; the person leaving the booth.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2007Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Inventor: Luciano Pinotti
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Patent number: 8316791Abstract: A coating device includes a main body defining a first and a second receiving rooms, a base received in the first receiving room for supporting work-pieces, a cleaning device opposing the first receiving room, a spraying device positioned on the top of the first receiving room for spraying coating materials to the work-pieces, a rotary drum device received in the first receiving room for uniformly coating the coating materials on the work-pieces, a heating device opposing the first receiving room for heating the coating materials to form a first film, a drive device for rotating, raising and lowering the base, a transportation device positioned in the second receiving room for transporting the base from the first receiving room to the second receiving room, a vacuum coating device opposing the second receiving room for coating a second film on the work-pieces after completing coating the first film on the work-pieces.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2010Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shao-Kai Pei
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Patent number: 8312835Abstract: A powder spray for lengthy parts includes a booth wall structure comprised primarily of doors. A moveable roof may be raised and lowered to clean powder overspray from the interior surfaces of the booth. A cleaning process may be performed with a sideways extraction mode and a downward extraction mode. The mode change occurs when a bulkhead that travels with the moveable roof blocks the inlet duct to the recovery system. The recovery system may be a cyclone system for example. The doors of the booth are hinged so that they can be positioned for spraying operations and cleaning operations. Live hinge designs are provided and hose stress relief designs are also provided. The roof may carry accumulators for pressurized air that feed cleaning nozzles as the roof descends. In addition, exhaust air may be used to assist cleaning the interior surfaces as the roof descends. All of the energy provided for cleaning and color change may be provided by accumulators.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2010Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Nordson CorporationInventors: Jeffrey R. Shutic, Joseph G. Schroeder, Jeffery E. Dailidas, Kenneth Kreeger