Patents Assigned to Dürr Systems GmbH
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Patent number: 7959722Abstract: A device for separating wet paint overspray from an exhaust air flow containing overspray particles is disclosed. The overspray particles pass into the exhaust air flow in an application region of a painting assembly and the device includes a separation device for separating the overspray from a part of the exhaust air flow, in which clogging of the separation device with wet paint overspray is substantially prevented during a cleaning operation and/or ingress of precoat material into the application region from the region of the separation device is substantially prevented during a precoating operation, the device includes at least one closing device, by means of which the flow path of the exhaust air flow from the application region to the separation device can be intermittently closed off at least partially, and at least one precoat feeding means discharges a precoat material into the exhaust air flow downstream of the closing device.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2008Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Dürr Systems GmbHInventors: Dietmar Wieland, Jens Holzheimer
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Publication number: 20100161141Abstract: An error logging method for a coating plant is disclosed. The error logging method generally includes capturing an error during running of process data records for the coating plant, wherein the individual process data records are ordered according to the given time of operation of the coating plant and each of which contain various process data of the coating plant. The method may further include storage of the captured process data records, detection of a possible error condition of the coating plant, and/or production of an error code when detection of an error condition of the coating plant occurs. The various examples may also relate to storage of the error code in chronological order with the stored process data records.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2007Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: Duerr Systems GmbHInventors: Frank Herre, Dietmar Wildermuth, Roland Wolf
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Publication number: 20100075058Abstract: An applicator is disclosed for applying a coating agent, such as a sealant, to a component, such as a flanged seam of a motor vehicle body component. The applicator includes a nozzle for delivering the coating agent on to the component and a carrier. The carrier may be guided by a multiple-axis robot in operation, with a joint located kinematically between the carrier and the nozzle, thereby permitting the nozzle to move to avoid contact with a component being coated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2008Publication date: March 25, 2010Applicant: DUERR SYSTEMS GMBHInventors: Lothar Rademacher, Almir Smajilovic
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Publication number: 20100021646Abstract: A deflecting air ring is disclosed having a plurality of deflecting air nozzles for discharging a deflecting air jet onto a spray jet of a vaporizer in order to shape the spray jet. The deflecting air nozzles are configured such that the deflecting air jet is substantially laminar within a close region, while the deflecting air nozzles also generate turbulence in a remote region situated downstream of the close region of the deflecting air jet.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2008Publication date: January 28, 2010Applicant: DÜRR SYSTEMS GMBHInventors: Hans-Juergen Nolte, Peter Marquardt, Harald Gummlich, Andreas Fischer, Harry Krumma, Jurgen Berkowitsch
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Publication number: 20090212122Abstract: The invention relates to an application element (1) for a rotary sprayer, in particular in the form of a bell-shaped plate or a rotary disc, with an overflow surface (8) which, during the coating operation, rotates together with the application element (1) and is overflowed by a coating agent to be applied, and with a surface layer which is located on the overflow surface (8) and on which a thin coating agent film forms with a certain film thickness during operation, wherein boundary surface friction acts between the coating agent film and the surface layer. It is proposed that the surface layer reduces the boundary surface friction between the coating agent film and the overflow surface (8). Furthermore, the invention comprises an associated operating method.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2007Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicant: DÜRR SYSTEMS GMBHInventors: Hans-Jurgen Nolte, Harald Gummlich
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Patent number: 7495575Abstract: A gear pump for the dosed conveyance of pigmented lacquers or paints and which is adapted for use with a painting robot. The gear pump comprises two toothed wheels meshing with one another and which are mounted within a pump housing in such a manner that they can be rotated by a driven drive shaft and a fixed bearing shaft. For this, the drive shaft is mounted by a bearing section at multiple points in a pump housing and a coupling section of the drive shaft projects out of the pump drive to connect to a drive. In order, on the one hand, to avoid wear due to high pressure forces and, on the other hand, to absorb a pronounced load from the outside, a supporting bearing for the radial and axial support of the drive shaft is formed on the drive shaft's coupling section projecting outside of the pump housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2005Date of Patent: February 24, 2009Assignees: Saurer GmbH & Co. KG, Dürr Systems GmbHInventors: Arkardiusz Tomzik, Florian Axmann, Michael Baumann
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Patent number: 7488518Abstract: In order to provide a process for curing a coating, in particular a radiation-curable coating, on a work piece, which allows coatings even on difficult to access regions of a three-dimensional work piece to be cured in a simple manner, it is proposed that the work piece is disposed in a plasma generation area, and that in the plasma generation area a plasma is generated, by means of which the coating is at least partially cured.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2003Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: Duerr Systems GmbHInventors: Konrad Ortlieb, Dietmar Wieland, Wolfgang Tobisch, Dietmar Roth, Karl-Heinz Dittrich
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Patent number: 7182298Abstract: In order to provide a track-guided transport system, and in particular a suspended monorail system, comprising a track network incorporating at least one node at which at least two track sections of the track network adjoin one another and also comprising a plurality of vehicles travelling along the track network and each of which comprises a control unit wherein the control of the movements of these vehicles can be effected in a simple and reliable manner even when there are a large number of vehicles, it is proposed that at least one successor or the information that the vehicle does not have a successor and/or at least one forerunner or the information that the vehicle does not have a forerunner be associated with each vehicle, wherein the information relating to the successor or the forerunner is stored in the control unit of the vehicle and is updated when the vehicle passes a node of the track network.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2006Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Assignee: Duerr Systems GmbHInventor: Werner Fischer
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Publication number: 20060259211Abstract: To provide a track-guided transport system, in particular a suspended monorail system, comprising a data transmission line arranged along a track and at least one vehicle, which can be run along the track and comprises at least one mobile data handling unit to receive signals from the data transmission line and/or to transmit signals to the data transmission line, in which it is possible to have relevant data passed to the vehicle at its current position in a simple manner or to have the vehicle at its current position transmit relevant data to its surrounding area, it is proposed that the transport system comprises at least one local stationary data handling unit, which comprises a signal transmitter, which transmits a signal, which is received by the mobile data handling unit of the vehicle, and/or a signal receiver, which receives a signal, which is transmitted from the mobile data handling unit of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2006Publication date: November 16, 2006Applicant: Duerr Systems GmbHInventors: Werner Fischer, Dirk Kansy, Michael Zorn
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Publication number: 20060131294Abstract: In order to provide a transport system comprising a conductor system, which comprises at least one supply conductor, which is connected to an energy source, at least one transport carriage movable along a travel path relative to the conductor system and at least one means for the non-contact transmission of energy from the conductor system to the transport carriage, in which transport system the stationary conductor loop has an inductance that is as low as possible and in which ohmic losses are kept as low as possible, it is proposed that the transport system comprises at least one induction conductor, which at least in sections is arranged so closely adjacent to the supply conductor that an electric current flowing in the supply conductor generates an induction current in the induction conductor, wherein the induction conductor has at least two end regions, which are short-circuited to one another, and/or wherein the induction conductor is closed in a ring shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2005Publication date: June 22, 2006Applicant: Duerr Systems GmbHInventor: Erik Lindig
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Publication number: 20060124434Abstract: The invention relates to an air conveyor in a conveying assembly with two symmetrical conveyors for transporting car bodies resting on sleds individually suspended to traction carrier cables (60) through four independent pendle arms. The cables are synchronously driven to travel along parallel respective paths following a closed loop circuit in a vertical plane. The arms are affixed to the cables through articulated assembly devices enabling them to travel a complete revolution in the vertical plane. When they return empty, from the sled discharging station to the loading station, they are tilted along the cable until they rest on a support member integral therewith. A ramp is also provided for retaining the distal end of each arm which guides its tilting about an idler wheel when approaching the loading station.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2003Publication date: June 15, 2006Applicant: Duerr Systems GmbHInventor: Claude Fage
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Patent number: 6991087Abstract: The invention relates to a conveyor device which is used to transport work-pieces, especially the work-pieces of motor vehicle bodies, through a processing area for surface treatment of said work-pieces, comprising a conveyor which brings the work-pieces which are respectively maintained by a holder into the processing area; transports them through said area and removes them therefrom. The inventive conveyor device requires less maintenance in comparison with known conveyor devices. The holders respectively comprise a base part which moves in a translatory movement along a conveyor device and a rotating part on which the work-piece is arranged and which is held in such a way that it is rotatable on the base part. The conveyor comprises at least one drive device enabling at least one directly driven respective holder to be driven directly in a movement along the conveyor device.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2003Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignees: Duerr Systems GmbH, Duerr Automotion GmbHInventors: Edmund Krannich, Gerhard Mogck, Konrad Ortlieb, Andreas Schmohl, Heinrich Weeber, Juergen Weschke, Guenter Zerweck
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Publication number: 20050061616Abstract: The invention relates to a conveyor device which is used to transport work-pieces, especially the work-pieces of motor vehicle bodies, through a processing area for surface treatment of said work-pieces, comprising a conveyor which brings the work-pieces which are respectively maintained by a holder into the processing area; transports them through said area and removes them therefrom. The inventive conveyor device requires less maintenance in comparison with known conveyor devices. The holders respectively comprise a base part which moves in a translatory movement along a conveyor device and a rotating part on which the work-piece is arranged and which is held in such a way that it is rotatable on the base part. The conveyor comprises at least one drive device enabling at least one directly driven respective holder to be driven directly in a movement along the conveyor device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2003Publication date: March 24, 2005Applicants: Duerr Systems GmbH, Duerr Automotion GmbHInventors: Edmund Krannich, Gerhard Mogck, Konrad Ortlieb, Andreas Schmohl, Heinrich Weeber, Juergen Weschke, Guenter Zerweck
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Publication number: 20040101635Abstract: In order to provide a process for curing a coating, in particular a radiation-curable coating, on a work piece, which allows coatings even on difficult to access regions of a three-dimensional work piece to be cured in a simple manner, it is proposed that the work piece is disposed in a plasma generation area, and that in the plasma generation area a plasma is generated, by means of which the coating is at least partially cured.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2003Publication date: May 27, 2004Applicant: Duerr Systems GmbHInventors: Konrad Ortlieb, Dietmar Wieland, Wolfgang Tobisch, Dietmar Roth, Karl-Heinz Dittrich
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Patent number: D636842Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2010Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Duerr Systems GmbHInventors: Hans-Jürgen Nolte, Andreas Fischer, Peter Marquardt, Jurgen Berkowitsch, Joachim Schneider
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Patent number: D636843Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2010Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Duerr Systems GmbHInventors: Hans-Jürgen Nolte, Andreas Fischer, Peter Marquardt, Jürgen Berkowitsch, Joachim Schneider
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Patent number: D636844Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2010Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Duerr Systems GmbHInventors: Frank Herre, Joachim Hering, Rainer Melcher, Thomas Buck, Michael Baumann, Bernhard Seiz, Manfred Michelfelder
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Patent number: D638518Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2010Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Duerr Systems GmbHInventors: Frank Herre, Joachim Hering, Rainer Melcher, Thomas Buck, Michael Baumann, Bernhard Seiz, Manfred Michelfelder
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Patent number: D643510Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2010Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Duerr Systems GmbHInventors: Hans-Jürgen Nolte, Andreas Fischer, Peter Marquardt, Jürgen Berkowitsch, Joachim Schneider
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Patent number: D657014Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2010Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Duerr Systems GmbHInventor: Bernhard Seiz