Abstract: A hot air generation apparatus for performing heating processing concerning a dry gas in a coating drying oven, includes a heating chamber to which the dry gas is supplied, and an electric flow heater attached to a wall portion of the heating chamber The electric flow heater includes a heating unit provided with a heating element, an introduction portion provided outside the heating chamber to introduce a gas to pass through the heating unit, a discharge portion provided inside the heating chamber to discharge the gas that has passed through the heating unit, and an electric connection terminal provided outside the heating chamber and configured to supply power to the heating element.

Abstract: The paint apparatus includes a paint booth having an upper chamber in which a painting operation is performed and a lower chamber placed below the upper chamber; a receiving portion 2 that receives air discharged from the paint booth; a filter module 3 attachable to and detachable from the receiving portion 2 and including filter portions 31 and 32 that trap paint mist from air that passed through the receiving portion 2, a filter inlet portion 33 that receives an inflow of air from the receiving portion 2, and a filter outlet portion 34 that discharges air from which the paint mist was trapped by the filter portions 31 and 32; and rails 6 that guide the filter module 3 to an attached position at which the filter module 3 is attached to the receiving portion 2.

Abstract: A coating device for atomizing a paint having an electrical resistivity of 20 M?·cm or less using an action of an electric field, and includes a nozzle to which a voltage is applied, a flow passage along which the paint flows, a measuring unit that measures a supplied current, and a controller that controls the voltage applied to the nozzle, based on a measurement value of the measuring unit.

Abstract: A management apparatus manages driving of a plurality of automated guided vehicles that convey a conveyance target object in a production facility. The apparatus acquires remaining amount information of a battery provided in a selected vehicle selected from the plurality of automated guided vehicles, acquires a conveyance condition of a conveyance target object, the conveyance condition including a condition for specifying a conveyance destination, estimates, based on the remaining amount information and the conveyance condition, a remaining amount of the battery at the time of conveying the conveyance target object to the conveyance destination, and decides a driving mode of the selected vehicle based on an estimation result of the estimation unit.

Abstract: An air conditioner that can have a higher efficiency, a lower power consumption, and a smaller size is disclosed. The air conditioner is for supplying air to a paint booth for painting a paint target. The air conditioner includes a housing that has an inlet and an outlet for air that is to be supplied, a humidifying means for spraying humidifying mist into the air taken in through the inlet, and a vaporizing means for vaporizing unvaporized humidifying mist contained in the air into which the humidifying mist was sprayed by the humidifying means, by causing the unvaporized humidifying mist to come into contact with the air flowing through the vaporizing means. The air subjected to humidity adjustment by the humidifying means and the vaporizing means is supplied to the paint booth via the outlet.

Abstract: A quality control system for controlling quality of a paint target includes: an individual identification section associating a step control value and a quality control value with identification information for the paint target on the basis of the amount of movement; a state value computing section calculating a state value indicative of a paint state of the paint target on the basis of a history of a temporal change of the step control value; a learning section learning a correlation between the step control value, the state value, and the quality control value using sets of the step control value, the state value, and the quality control value; an input device receiving information on the amount of movement, the step control value, and the quality control value; and a storage device storing a set of the identification information, the step control value, the state value, and the quality control value.

Abstract: To provide a coating drier facility that has only a small heat loss and saves energy, a coating drier facility includes: a drier chamber configured to dry a coated object; a heater for heating air; an air supplier for supplying the air heated by the heater into the drier chamber; an air collector for collecting air from the drier chamber; and a treatment device for treating a volatile substance in the air that the air collector has collected, wherein the heater doubles as the treatment device.

Abstract: Provided is an automatic teaching system that is readily able to achieve automation, even when a small but varied number of processing objects are to undergo polishing or coating. The automatic teaching system includes a three-dimensional shape measurement apparatus, a reference marker, an image analysis apparatus, and a robot control device. The three-dimensional shape measurement apparatus acquires shape data of a processing target region on a processing object relative to the reference marker, and the image analysis apparatus divides the shape data of the processing target region into a plurality of continuous reference surfaces, in accordance with a predetermined algorithm, automatically generates a program of an operation path along which a polishing apparatus or coating apparatus of the robot is to be operated, for every reference surface, in accordance with a predetermined operation path generation rule, and transmits the program of the operation path to the robot control device.

Abstract: An airflow detection apparatus (1) includes an airflow detection apparatus (1) that detects an airflow in a painting booth, and includes a thread-like member (2) installed inside the painting booth, an image capture device (4) capable of generating image data obtained by capturing an image of the thread-like member (2), and a calculation device capable of performing calculation processing on the image data. The thread-like member (2) is installed in the painting booth in a mode in which at least a portion thereof is suspended. The calculation device specifies a portion corresponding to the thread-like member (2) in the image data, and detects an airflow based on a position of the portion.

Abstract: Provided are an inspection device and an inspection method capable of controlling the positional relationship between a device and a measurement object to achieve an attitude enabling an appropriate detection of the surface conditions. The inspection device includes: a detector including a transmitter configured to transmit a transmission wave to a measurement object and a receiver configured to receive a return wave generated as a result of the transmission wave hitting the measurement object; and at least one sucker configured to suck the measurement object to regulate respective positions of the measurement object and the detector relative to each other.

Abstract: The paint apparatus includes a paint booth having an upper chamber in which a painting operation is performed and a lower chamber placed below the upper chamber; a receiving portion 2 that receives air discharged from the paint booth; a filter module 3 attachable to and detachable from the receiving portion 2 and including filter portions 31 and 32 that trap paint mist from air that passed through the receiving portion 2, a filter inlet portion 33 that receives an inflow of air from the receiving portion 2, and a filter outlet portion 34 that discharges air from which the paint mist was trapped by the filter portions 31 and 32; and rails 6 that guide the filter module 3 to an attached position at which the filter module 3 is attached to the receiving portion 2.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shape measuring instrument is provided for measuring a three-dimensional shape of the polishing subject face. A polishing controller is provided for controlling a polishing robot alone or with a polishing tool, based on three-dimensional shape data of the polishing subject face obtained by the shape measurement by the three-dimensional shape measuring instrument. The polishing tool provides a polishing action on the respective part of the polishing subject face through controlling of the polishing robot alone or with the polishing tool by the polishing controller. By controlling a measuring robot and the three-dimensional shape measuring instrument by the polishing controller, the three-dimensional shape measuring instrument moves to a predetermined measuring position relative to the polishing subject face to measure the three-dimensional shape of the polishing subject face.

Abstract: A painting facility 1 includes a painting chamber 3 in which a spray painting operation is effected on a painting object W, an air supplying chamber 2 configured to supply air into the painting chamber 3 via an air supplying section 4a, 4b provided in a ceiling portion 30 of the painting chamber 3, and an air discharging chamber 5 configured to suction air and uncoated paint mist present in the painting chamber 3 via a floor discharging section of the painting chamber 3, two air supplying sections 4a, 4b are disposed in left-right symmetry relative to a position of the painting object W in a width direction of the painting chamber 3 as the center therebetween. Air is released in a radial form from an outlet portion 40 of each one of the two air supplying sections 4a, 4b.

Abstract: In an automatic polishing system configured such that under control of a polishing robot and/or a polishing tool by a polishing controller, the polishing tool provides a polishing action on a polishing subject face, a color intensity measurement instrument is provided for measuring an intensity of a specified color in the polishing subject face. Based on the intensity of the specified color measured by this color intensity measurement instrument, the polishing controller controls the polishing robot and/or the polishing tool, so that an amount of polishing work by the polishing tool onto the polishing subject face is adjusted according to the intensity of the specified color.

Abstract: A painting method for painting a painting subject area whose edge shape is delimited by at least one demarcation line. The method includes a center portion painting step of painting a center portion of the painting subject area which is away from the demarcation line using an air atomizing nozzle disposed within 5 cm or less from a painting subject surface, and a frame portion painting step of painting a frame portion of the painting subject area which is adjacent the demarcation line using a jet nozzle.

Abstract: The amount of wash water to be consumed in an electrodeposition coating facility and the amount of used wash water to be discharged that requires post-treatment are reduced. To achieve this object, an electrodeposition coating facility that includes a degreasing process section A, a post-degreasing rinse section B, a chemical conversion process section C, a post-chemical-conversion rinse section D, an electrodeposition coating section E, and a post-electrodeposition rinse section F is provided with a filtration process apparatus 4 and a wash water recycling line 5. The filtration process apparatus 4 performs a filtration process on wash water W after being used to wash an object to be coated 1 in the post-electrodeposition rinse section F.

Abstract: The facility includes a first connection mechanism connecting a filter unit to a floor discharging section to establish communication between an opening portion of the floor discharging section and an upper face opening portion of the filter unit and a second connection mechanism connecting the filter unit to an exhausting chamber to establish communication between an opening portion of the exhausting chamber and a side face opening portion of the filter unit. The first connection mechanism includes a seal portion that comes into contact with an entire circumference of an outer face of an upper end portion of the filter unit, thus preventing leakage of exhaust gas. The seal portion includes an introducing portion for introducing the upper end portion of the filter unit to the seal portion from a horizontal direction.

Abstract: A paint drying device where leakage of air between a drying chamber and a driving section accommodating chamber is prevented reliably. In the paint drying device in which the drying chamber and the driving section accommodating chamber communicate with each other via a through hole through which a power transmission tool extends, there are provided an air feeding passage for feeding air present outside the drying chamber to the driving section accommodating chamber by an air feeding fan and an exhaust passage for discharging air in the driving section accommodating chamber to the outside of the drying chamber by an exhaust fan. An air amount adjustment device is provided for adjusting a ratio between an amount of air to be fed to the driving section accommodating chamber via the air feeding passage and an amount of air to be discharged from the driving section accommodating chamber via the exhaust passage.

Abstract: Provided is surface treatment system for a large object having high versatility. In a surface treatment system for a large object configured to cause a treatment machine for treating a surface of the object to be held by a leading end portion of a work arm of a work robot and to move the treatment machine relative to the surface of the object by a movement of the work robot thus treating the surface of the object by the treatment machine, there is provided a trackless type work machine mounting the work robot on a self-propelled cart. The work machine mounts a robot moving device for moving the work robot relative to the self-propelled cart at least in a height direction and mounts also a battery capable of supplying traveling power for the self-propelled cart.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an automatic drawing system capable of drawing a figure having a smooth and clear contour, in which a control apparatus, based on figure data of a planned drawing figure, by operation of a cartesian coordinate robot, moves a paint discharging apparatus parallel to a contour line of the planned drawing figure to be drawn at a planned drawing location, and along with this movement, the control apparatus executes contour parallel drawing control that causes the paint discharging apparatus to continuously perform a paint discharging operation, thereby drawing a contour portion of the planned drawing figure.