Abstract: The disclosure concerns a mixing valve for mixing two coating agent components (e.g. master batch and hardener) to form a multi-component mixture, with two coating agent inlets for supplying the two coating agent components and with two coating agent valves for controlling the coating agent flow through the two coating agent inlets, as well as with a coating agent outlet for discharging the multi-component mixture in a specific outflow direction. The disclosure provides that at least one of the coating agent valves is formed as a rotary slide valve having two plane-parallel valve discs which are rotatable relative to each other about an axis of rotation.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an application device, preferably for alternately applying a 2C material, comprising a first component material and a second component material, on the one hand and the first component material on the other hand, in particular onto a motor vehicle component, comprising preferably an application head and a first line section leading to an application nozzle, wherein the first line section comprises a mixer and a first line for a first component material and a second line for a second component material, wherein the first line and the second line are connected to the mixer and the mixer mixes the first component material and the second component material with each other for forming a 2C material. The application device is characterized in particular in that it comprises a second line section for the first component material to form an application bead of alternately the 2C material from the first line section and the first component material from the second line section.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns an applicator for applying a coating agent (e.g. thick matter) to a component (e.g. motor vehicle body part) with a nozzle with a nozzle opening with a certain nozzle geometry, in particular for applying a thick matter bead to a component surface. The disclosure provides that the nozzle geometry of the nozzle opening can be adjusted without replacing the nozzle, in particular by a relative movement of two nozzle parts. Furthermore, the disclosure comprises an exchange part for such an applicator and an operating method therefor.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns a mixing valve for mixing two coating agent components (e.g. master batch and hardener) to form a multi-component mixture, with two coating agent inlets for supplying the two coating agent components and with two coating agent valves for controlling the coating agent flow through the two coating agent inlets, as well as with a coating agent outlet for discharging the multi-component mixture in a specific outflow direction. The disclosure provides that at least one of the coating agent valves is formed as a rotary slide valve having two plane-parallel valve discs which are rotatable relative to each other about an axis of rotation.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns an applicator for applying a coating agent (e.g. thick matter) to a component (e.g. motor vehicle body part) with a nozzle with a nozzle opening with a certain nozzle geometry, in particular for applying a thick matter bead to a component surface. The disclosure provides that the nozzle geometry of the nozzle opening can be adjusted without replacing the nozzle, in particular by a relative movement of two nozzle parts. Furthermore, the disclosure comprises an exchange part for such an applicator and an operating method therefor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a compensation cylinder unit that acts as a drive for the electrode arms of a welding device. The unit comprises a cylinder and at least two pressure chambers, which are sub-divided by a piston assembly and which can be alternately supplied with a pressurized medium by means of a valve assembly for controlling the drive displacement. According to the invention, the valve assembly comprises a proportional valve which can be controlled by a control unit, first in accordance with harmonized path signals that represent the position of the piston assembly and then by pressure signals that respectively represent the pressure in the pressure chambers, in such a way that the difference between the pressures that prevail in the pressure chambers in a predeterminable position of the piston assembly assumes a constant value that represents the weight compensation force of at least one electrode arm.

Abstract: A method for balancing an electrode arm (101) of a welding device (100) is provided. The welding device (100) includes a first electrode arm (101) and a second electrode arm (102) movable with respect to one another and coupled to a reference arm (30). The welding device (100) also includes a compensation actuator (106) coupled to the first electrode arm (101) and to the reference arm (30) to balance a weight of the first electrode arm (101) and including first and second fluid chambers. The method comprises a step of adjusting a differential pressure between the first and second fluid chambers of the compensation actuator (106). The method further comprises a step of determining a differential balance pressure required to balance the weight of the first electrode arm (101) when the first electrode arm (101) moves by more than a threshold amount.

Abstract: A pneumatic actuator system (200) is provided according to the invention. The system (200) comprises a pneumatic actuator (100) including an actuator component (108), with the pneumatic actuator (100) being configured to include a first actuation phase and a second actuation phase. The system (200) further comprises one or more feedback sensors configured to provide one or more actuation feedback values, an actuator valve (213) coupled to and providing a first pneumatic pressure and a second pneumatic pressure to the pneumatic actuator (100), and a controller (240) coupled to the one or more feedback sensors and the actuator valve (213). The controller (240) is configured to receive the one or more actuation feedback values from the one or more feedback sensors and control the actuator valve (213) in order to actuate the actuator component (108) according to an actuation profile and according to the one or more actuation feedback values.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes a system, method, and article for providing market insight. The system may generate a market profile based upon actual purchase data. The market profile may include one or more of the following: a pricing trend, a high price, a low price, an average price, a median price, a mean price, a modal price, a most frequently paid price, an optimal date to make a purchase, an optimal date to redeem a purchase, an optimal merchant from which to purchase, and an optimal location to make a purchase. The system may further transmit the market profile to a client.

Abstract: A device comprising: a sub-base having a first end, a second end, a top side (310), a left side, a right side and a width, a first (324), second (326), and third passageway (328) formed in the sub-base where the first, second, and third passageway run from the left side through to the right side; a first (446) and second opening (448) formed in the second end; a first, second, third, fourth and fifth slot (314, 316, 318, 320, 322) formed in a row in the top side of the sub-base where a long axis of the slots run from the right side towards the left side and where the first slot (314) couples to the first passageway (324), the third slot (318) couples to the second passageway (326), and the fifth slot (322) couples to the third passageway (328); a means for smoothly directing fluid flow from the second opening (448) to the second slot (316); a means for smoothly directing fluid flow from the first opening (446) to the fourth slot (320).

Abstract: A flow sensor (100) is disclosed provided with a body (102) with a first opening (128) and a second opening (130) and a flow pathway (103) coupling the first opening (128) to the second opening (130). At least one thermal sensor (140) is located in the flow pathway (103) between the first opening (128) and the second opening (130). A first turbulence inducer (114, 116, or 118) is located between the first opening (128) and the at least one thermal sensor (140). The turbulence inducer consists of a mesh of joined beams that define a plurality of voids.

Abstract: A pneumatic actuator system (200) is provided according to the invention. The system (200) comprises a pneumatic actuator (100) including an actuator component (108), with the pneumatic actuator (100) being configured to include a first actuation phase and a second actuation phase. The system (200) further comprises one or more feedback sensors configured to provide one or more actuation feedback values, an actuator valve (213) coupled to and providing a first pneumatic pressure and a second pneumatic pressure to the pneumatic actuator (100), and a controller (240) coupled to the one or more feedback sensors and the actuator valve (213). The controller (240) is configured to receive the one or more actuation feedback values from the one or more feedback sensors and control the actuator valve (213) in order to actuate the actuator component (108) according to an actuation profile and according to the one or more actuation feedback values.

Abstract: The invention relates to a compensation cylinder unit that acts as a drive for the electrode arms of a welding device. The unit comprises a cylinder and at least two pressure chambers, which are sub-divided by a piston assembly and which can be alternately supplied with a pressurized medium by means of a valve assembly for controlling the drive displacement. According to the invention, the valve assembly comprises a proportional valve which can be controlled by a control unit, first in accordance with harmonized path signals that represent the position of the piston assembly and then by pressure signals that respectively represent the pressure in the pressure chambers, in such a way that the difference between the pressures that prevail in the pressure chambers in a predeterminable position of the piston assembly assumes a constant value that represents the weight compensation force of at least one electrode arm.