Abstract: In order to provide a drier module for a drier for a coating plant, in particular for a coating plant for vehicle bodies, wherein the drier comprises a drier working space for receiving the objects to be dried, which space is bounded by a drier floor, a drier ceiling and lateral boundary walls, which reduces the transport costs for transporting the drier components from the production site to the erection site, it is proposed that the drier module comprise at least one section of a lateral boundary wall of the drier working space and one section of the drier floor and/or one section of the drier ceiling, wherein the drier floor section and/or the drier ceiling section are/is connected to the boundary wall section so as to be pivotable relative to the boundary wall section.

Abstract: Exemplary robots and corresponding exemplary operating methods for a painting system are disclosed. In one example, the robot is a handling robot for opening and closing doors or bonnets of motor vehicle bodies. A robot element of a handling robot that is susceptible to dirt retention, e.g., a handling tool, may be arranged away from the spray jet of a paint during the painting operation and is applied to the component that is to be painted. The robot may include a cleaning device for cleaning or for keeping the robot element of the handling robot that is susceptible to dirt retention clean from paint that is applied with spray jet in the painting operation.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: In order to provide a filter installation, including a filter device for cleaning a raw gas flow loaded with paint overspray, the filter device including a filter element, on which paint overspray from the raw gas flow loaded with paint overspray is configured to be deposited together with the auxiliary filter material fed to the raw gas flow, a receiving container for receiving a system of paint overspray and auxiliary filter material and a removal device for removing at least a part of the system of paint overspray and auxiliary filter material from the receiving container, by means of which filter installation a material-saving, efficient filtering operation is configured to be carried out, it is proposed that the filter installation includes a processing device for processing the system of paint overspray and auxiliary filter material.

Abstract: Exemplary painting devices for painting components, e.g., motor vehicle bodies or parts thereof 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.

Abstract: Apparatus and systems related to conveyors having a rotatable section are disclosed. Another example apparatus includes first and second conveyors transporting objects in order, and a rotatable transfer section to which the objects are provided from the first conveyor in a first direction. The objects are to be rotated about an axis of rotation and placed onto the second conveyor from the rotatable transfer section in a second direction different from the first direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cleaning device (1) for an atomizer (2) having a specified outer contour, in particular for cleaning a rotary atomizer (2), comprising at least one cleaning brush (5) for cleaning the atomizer (2), wherein the cleaning brush (5) has a specified brush contour. According to the invention, the brush contour of the cleaning brush (5) is adapted to the outer contour of the atomizer (2) so that the cleaning brush (5) nestles up against the atomizer (2). The invention further relates to a corresponding cleaning brush (5) and to a suitable cleaning method.

Abstract: A device for separating overspray of a liquid coating material from a gas flow flowing through an application region of a system for coating workpieces comprises a separating device comprising several regenerable surface filters which are arranged on two mutually opposite vertical sidewalls of a flow chamber, are spaced apart from one another in a workpiece conveying direction and protrude with filter elements into a lower portion of the flow chamber, the overspray which has passed into said gas flow in the application region being charged in said separating device with at least one auxiliary agent introduced into the gas flow. A barrier layer is thereby formed to reduce filter surface clogging. A fluid which reacts chemically with the overspray is provided at least in part as the auxiliary agent for bonding the overspray.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for controlling a robot or a first robot (LR1) and at least one further second robot (LR2), wherein the robot or the first robot (LR1) and the at least one further second robot (LR2) is provided to run through a plurality of positioning ranges (SB11, SB22) during operation. Preferably, a dynamic behavior and/or a load characteristic value of the robot in at least one first positioning range is adapted to a dynamic behavior and/or a load characteristic value in at least one second positioning range of the robot and/or a dynamic behavior and/or a load characteristic value of the first robot (LR1) in at least one first positioning range (SB11) is adapted to a dynamic behavior and/or a load characteristic value of the second robot (LR2) in at least one second positioning range (SB22). The invention further concerns a corresponding control system, a corresponding computer program resp. computer-readable medium and a corresponding robot.

Abstract: An application apparatus is configured for application of a coating agent onto a component part, for example, for application of a sealing agent onto a body component. The application apparatus may include an elongated part, that is rotatable about its longitudinal axis and has a nozzle head with at least one nozzle to discharge the coating agent, and one valve unit to control the supply of the coating agent to the at least one nozzle. In a disclosed embodiment, the valve unit is formed outside the nozzle head and arranged at least in sections along the elongated part in a direction of the nozzle head.

Abstract: The invention relates to a robot transmission (1) for a multi-axis robot, in particular for a painting robot or a hand-held robot of a painting system for painting motor vehicle body components. Said transmission comprises a transmission housing (6) which is filled, when in operation, at least partially with a lubricant according to an operationally-dependent lubricant pressure, in order to lubricate the robot transmission (1), and has a construction-defined maximum pressure for the lubrication pressure. The transmission housing (6) is not air-tight if the lubrication pressure in the transmission housing (6) exceeds the maximum pressure. According to the invention, the robot transmission also comprises a pressure compensation device (7) which compensates the pressure in the transmission housing (6) and thus prevents the lubrication pressure in the transmission housing (6) from exceeding the maximum pressure.

Abstract: A deflecting air ring includes 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 first region, while the deflecting air nozzles also generate turbulence in a second region situated downstream of the first region of the deflecting air jet.

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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A predetermined robot path includes a plurality of path points defined by spatial coordinates. Spatial coordinates of the individual path points are converted in accordance with inverse robot kinematics into corresponding axis coordinates, the axis coordinates representing the position of the individual robot axes at respective path points. Axis-related controllers are actuated for individual robot axes in accordance with converted axis coordinates. Axis-related drive motors in individual robot axes are actuated by at least associated axis-related controllers. Path correction values are determined for individual path points on the robot path in accordance with a dynamic robot model, the path correction values taking account of the elasticity, friction, and/or inertia of the robot. Corrected axis coordinates are determined for the individual path points from uncorrected axis coordinates of individual path points and path correction values.