CA2688154A1 - Coating material dispensing apparatus and method - Google Patents

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CA2688154A1
CA2688154A1 CA002688154A CA2688154A CA2688154A1 CA 2688154 A1 CA2688154 A1 CA 2688154A1 CA 002688154 A CA002688154 A CA 002688154A CA 2688154 A CA2688154 A CA 2688154A CA 2688154 A1 CA2688154 A1 CA 2688154A1
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05BSPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B5/00Electrostatic spraying apparatus; Spraying apparatus with means for charging the spray electrically; Apparatus for spraying liquids or other fluent materials by other electric means
    • B05B5/025Discharge apparatus, e.g. electrostatic spray guns
    • B05B5/04Discharge apparatus, e.g. electrostatic spray guns characterised by having rotary outlet or deflecting elements, i.e. spraying being also effected by centrifugal forces
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05BSPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B15/00Details of spraying plant or spraying apparatus not otherwise provided for; Accessories
    • B05B15/50Arrangements for cleaning; Arrangements for preventing deposits, drying-out or blockage; Arrangements for detecting improper discharge caused by the presence of foreign matter
    • B05B15/55Arrangements for cleaning; Arrangements for preventing deposits, drying-out or blockage; Arrangements for detecting improper discharge caused by the presence of foreign matter using cleaning fluids
    • B05B15/555Arrangements for cleaning; Arrangements for preventing deposits, drying-out or blockage; Arrangements for detecting improper discharge caused by the presence of foreign matter using cleaning fluids discharged by cleaning nozzles
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05BSPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B15/00Details of spraying plant or spraying apparatus not otherwise provided for; Accessories
    • B05B15/60Arrangements for mounting, supporting or holding spraying apparatus
    • B05B15/62Arrangements for supporting spraying apparatus, e.g. suction cups
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05BSPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B5/00Electrostatic spraying apparatus; Spraying apparatus with means for charging the spray electrically; Apparatus for spraying liquids or other fluent materials by other electric means
    • B05B5/025Discharge apparatus, e.g. electrostatic spray guns
    • B05B5/053Arrangements for supplying power, e.g. charging power
    • B05B5/0533Electrodes specially adapted therefor; Arrangements of electrodes
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05BSPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B5/00Electrostatic spraying apparatus; Spraying apparatus with means for charging the spray electrically; Apparatus for spraying liquids or other fluent materials by other electric means
    • B05B5/025Discharge apparatus, e.g. electrostatic spray guns
    • B05B5/04Discharge apparatus, e.g. electrostatic spray guns characterised by having rotary outlet or deflecting elements, i.e. spraying being also effected by centrifugal forces
    • B05B5/0403Discharge apparatus, e.g. electrostatic spray guns characterised by having rotary outlet or deflecting elements, i.e. spraying being also effected by centrifugal forces characterised by the rotating member
    • B05B5/0407Discharge apparatus, e.g. electrostatic spray guns characterised by having rotary outlet or deflecting elements, i.e. spraying being also effected by centrifugal forces characterised by the rotating member with a spraying edge, e.g. like a cup or a bell
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05BSPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B5/00Electrostatic spraying apparatus; Spraying apparatus with means for charging the spray electrically; Apparatus for spraying liquids or other fluent materials by other electric means
    • B05B5/16Arrangements for supplying liquids or other fluent material
    • B05B5/1608Arrangements for supplying liquids or other fluent material the liquid or other fluent material being electrically conductive

Abstract

A coating material atomizing and dispensing system (10) comprises an atomizer (10) and an assembly of electrodes (20,22). The electrode assembly is removably coupled to the atomizer to permit the assembly to be disassembled from the atomizer to permit entry of the atomizer through an opening smaller than the atomizer-electrode assembly can pass through. A device is provided for supporting the assembly when the assembly is disassembled from the atomizer.

Description

2 PCT/US2008/067853 COATING MATERIAL DISPENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims the benefit of the filing date of UK provisional patent specification GB0625583.0 filed December 21, 2006. The disclosure of GB0625583.0 is hereby incorporated herein by reference.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

This invention relates to apparatus and methods for dispensing coating materials. It is disclosed in the context of an apparatus and method for dispensing electrically non-insulative coating material, and for indirectly charging the dispensed electrically non-insulative coating material. However, it is believed to be useful in other applications as well.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

As used in this application, materials described as "electrically conductive" and "electrically non-insulative" are characterized by conductivities in a broad range electrically more conductive than materials described as "electrically non-conductive" and "electrically insulative." Materials described as "electrically semiconductive" are characterized by conductivities in a broad range of conductivities between electrically conductive and electrically non-conductive.
Terms such as "front," "back," "up," "down," and the like, are used only to describe illustrative embodiments, and are not intended as limiting.

Numerous devices for the coating of articles with atomized, electrostatically charged coating material particles are known. Generally, there are two types of such devices, ones in which the coating material particles are charged by direct contact with surfaces maintained at some non-zero magnitude electrical potential, sometimes called "direct charging," and ones in which the coating material particles are charged after they are atomized, sometimes called "indirect charging."
Direct charging is typically used when the material being atomized is electrically non-conductive. The power supply which provides the charge to the direct charging apparatus will not be shorted to ground through the stream of coating material flowing to the atomizer. Indirect charging, on the other hand, typically is used in situations in which the material being atomized is electrically non-insulative, for example, when the material is waterborne, and would otherwise short the power supply which provides the charge to ground without the presence in the supply line between the coating material source and the atomizer of a so-called "voltage block."
Direct charging devices are illustrated and described in, for example, U. S. Patents: 3,536,514; 3,575,344; 3,608,823; 3,698,636; 3,843,054;
3,913,523;
3,964,683; 4,037,561; 4,114,564; 4,135,667; 4,216,915; 4,228,961; 4,381,079;
4,447,008; 4,450,785; Re. 31,867; 4,784,331; 4,788,933; 4,802,625; 4,811,898;
4,943,005; 5,353,995; 5,433,387; 5,582,347; 5,622,563; 5,633,306; 5,662,278;
5,720,436; 5,803,372; 5,853,126; 5,957,395; 6,012,657; 6,042,030; 6,076,751;
6,230,993; 6,328,224; 6,676,049; published U. S. patent applications: US
2004/0061007; US 2005/0035229; and WO 03/031075. There are also the devices illustrated and described in U. S. Patents: 2,759,763; 2,877,137; 2,955,565;
2,996,042; 3,589,607; 3,610,528; 3,684,174; 4,066,041; 4,171,100; 4,214,708;
4,215,818; 4,323,197; 4,350,304; 4,402,991; 4,422,577; Re. 31,590; 4,518,119;
4,726,521; 4,779,805; 4,785,995; 4,879,137; 4,890,190; 5,011,086; 5,058,812 and, 4,896,3 84; British Patent Specification 1,209,653; Japanese published patent applications: 62-140,660; 1-315,361; 3-169,361; 3-221,166; 60-151,554; 60-94,166;
63-116,776; PCT/JP2005/018045; and 58-124,560; and, French patent 1,274,814.
There are also the devices illustrated and described in "AerobellTM Powder Applicator ITW Automatic Division;" "AerobellTM & Aerobell PIusTM Rotary Atomizer, DeVilbiss Ransburg Industrial Liquid Systems;" and, "Wagner PEM-C3 Spare parts list."

Indirect charging devices are illustrated and described in, for example, U. S. Patents: 5,085,373; 4,955,960; 4,872,616; 4,852,810; 4,771,949;
4,760,965;
4,143,819; 4,114,810; 3,408,985; 3,952,951; 3,393,662; 2,960,273; and, 2,890,388.
Such devices typically provide an electric field through which atomized particles of the electrically non-insulative coating material pass between the atomizing device and the target to be coated by the atomized particles.

The disclosures of all of the cited references are hereby incorporated herein by reference. This listing is not intended to be a representation that a complete search of all relevant art has been made, or that no more pertinent art than that listed exists, or that the listed art is material to patentability. Nor should any such representation be inferred.

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION

According to an aspect of the invention, a coating material atomizing and dispensing system comprises an atomizer and an assembly of electrodes. The electrode assembly is removably coupled to the atomizer to permit the assembly to be disassembled from the atomizer. This permits entry of the atomizer through an opening smaller than the atomizer-electrode assembly can pass through.

Illustratively, one of the electrode assembly and the atomizer includes a surface providing a groove. The groove includes a first portion and a second portion. The other of the electrode assembly and the atomizer includes a protrusion.
Insertion of the protrusion into the first portion and subsequent relative manipulation of the atomizer and electrode assembly to move the protrusion into the second portion assembles the electrode assembly and the atomizer.

Illustratively, the atomizer includes the protrusion and the assembly includes the surface providing the groove.

Illustratively, the electrode assembly comprises a ring-shaped support and the electrodes extend generally in a common direction from a surface of the ring-shaped support.

Further illustratively, the apparatus includes a source of coating material to be atomized and dispensed, and a conduit for coupling the source of coating material to the atomizer.

Further illustratively, the apparatus includes a source of high magnitude potential and a conductor for coupling the source of high magnitude potential to the electrodes.

Further illustratively, the apparatus includes a device for supporting the assembly when the assembly is disassembled from the atomizer.

Further illustratively, the apparatus includes a device for supporting the assembly when the assembly is disassembled from the atomizer.

Illustratively, the device includes an interior into which at least a portion of the electrode assembly projects when the electrode assembly is disassembled from the atomizer. The interior includes at least one outlet for dispensing onto the at least a portion of the electrode assembly that projects into the interior an agent for removing coating material from the at least a portion of the electrode assembly that projects into the interior.

Illustratively, the device includes a mechanism actuable to attach the electrode assembly to the device to minimize the likelihood of accidental dislodgement of the electrode assembly from the device when the electrode assembly is disassembled from the atomizer.

BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS OF THE DRAWINGS

The invention may best be understood by referring to the following detailed descriptions and accompanying drawings. In the drawings:

Fig. 1 illustrates a perspective view of a prior art spray apparatus;
Fig. 2 illustrates a partly fragmentary elevational view of a spray apparatus according to the present invention;

Fig. 3 illustrates a fragmentary perspective view of a detail of the spray apparatus illustrated in Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 illustrates a partly sectional elevational view of the spray apparatus illustrated in Fig. 2 in a docking station.

DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF ILLUSTRATIVE EMBODIMENTS

Referring to Fig. 1, a known rotary atomizer 10 includes a housing 12 with an opening 14 through which a bell cup 16 dispenses atomized coating material.

The cup 16 typically is mounted on the shaft (not shown) of a motor (not shown) such as, for example, a compressed air-driven turbine. In use, liquid coating material is supplied through a conduit 18 to the bell cup 16 and is atomized from a front edge of the bell cup 16 in accordance with known principles.

The housing 12 is mounted from a flange 20, which also supports an arrangement of electrodes 22. The electrodes 22 illustratively are equally angularly spaced around the rotational axis of the bell 16, here about 60 apart. A high magnitude potential is supplied to the electrode 22 array by a power supply such as, for example, one of the type illustrated and described in U. S. Patents:
6,562,137;
6,537,378; 6,423,142; 6,144,570; 5,978,244; 5,159,544; 4,745,520; 4,485,427;
4,481,557; 4,324,812; 4,187,527; 4,075,677; 3,894,272; 3,875,892; and, 3,851,618, so as to generate a corona adjacent the atomizer 10, such that the atomized coating material droplets leaving the edge of the bell 16 pass through the corona and thereby become electrostatically charged. The configuration of the electrodes 22 is exemplary only, and a variety of shapes, numbers and spacings of electrodes can be used to generate the discharge through which the droplets of coating material pass and are charged. The electrodes 22 are incorporated into an assembly 24 constructed from electrical insulating material. A high voltage is required to generate the corona, and the components supporting the electrodes 22 are designed and constructed to permit the dispensing of electrically non-insulative, for example, water-based coating materials.

In some coating installations, automotive vehicle coating plants being typical, atomizers 10 are typically mounted on the ends of robot arms. Such a robot arm is programmed to manipulate the atomizer 10 so as to spray coating material onto vehicles moving through the plant on a production line. The vehicle bodies typically are grounded or maintained at a low magnitude potential compared to the electrodes 22. The electrostatic force of attraction between the charged particles of coating material and the grounded or nearly grounded vehicle results in higher transfer efficiency of atomized coating material onto the vehicle.

As can be seen, the array of electrodes 22 adds considerably to the bulk, the physical envelope, of the apparatus 10, making it unwieldy, especially for use in confined spaces. In addition, manipulation by a robot of the atomizer 10 may cause soiling of the electrode surfaces by coating material. Accumulated coating material can adversely affect the ability of the electrodes 22 to generate the corona.
For a robot-manipulated atomizer 10, soiling of the electrodes 22 by, for example, coating material, presents challenges.

Referring to Fig. 2, an atomizer 110 is similar to the atomizer 10 of Fig. 1, and equivalent features have similar reference numbers. Instead of a single flange 20, the housing 112 is mounted to a bulkhead 126, while the electrodes are incorporated into an assembly 124. Detachment means 128 are provided for mounting the assembly 124 to the bulkhead 126. An illustrative "locate-and-twist"
detachment means 128 is illustrated in Fig. 3.

The atomizer 110 is of a known design and includes a bell cup 116 which is driven to rotate by a motor housed in the housing 112. Separate lines supply coating material from a source 111 and compressed air from a source 113 to the atomizer 110 through the robot arm 115 and passages in the bulkhead 126.
In use, the coating material is supplied to the bell cup 116. The bell cup 116 is driven by the motor to rotate at speeds sufficient to generate suitably sized droplets of the atomized coating material as described above for the apparatus of Fig. 1.

A high magnitude potential supply 117, illustratively of one of the types previously mentioned, is coupled through appropriate electrical connections to the electrodes 122 to generate a corona adjacent the atomizer 110 through which the atomized particles of coating material pass and are electrostatically charged.

Referring to Fig. 3, an example of a locate-and-twist mechanism includes a groove 132 formed on a surface 133 of assembly 124. The groove 132 includes a first portion 134, which opens into a surface 135 of assembly 124.
A
second portion 136 of the groove 132 extends across the surface 133. The bulkhead 126 is provided with a tongue 138 which is complementarily sized to fit into the groove 132. To attach the assembly 124 to the bulkhead 126, the bulkhead 126 is moved to a position to locate the tongue 138 adjacent the first portion 134 of the groove 132. The bulkhead 126 is then moved until the tongue 138 has been pushed to the junction of the first 134 and second 136 portions of the groove 132, in this case, axially with respect to the atomizer 110. The bulkhead 126 is then rotated so that the tongue 138 is moved along the second portion 136 of the groove 132 to complete the mounting of the assembly 124 to the bulkhead 126. Detachment is accomplished by the reverse procedure.

Fig. 3 illustrates assembly 124 and bulkhead 126 only fragmentarily, showing only a single tongue 138 and groove 132. It will be appreciated that the atomizer 110 of Fig. 2 may include any suitable number, for example, two, three, four or six, of such locate-and-twist connections distributed in any suitable manner, for example, uniformly spaced or non-uniformly spaced, around the assembly 124 and the bulkhead 126.

In use, when it is required to use the atomizer 110 in a confined location such as, for example, to spray the interior or underside of a vehicle, the assembly 124 can be detached by disengagement of the assembly 124 from the bulkhead 126. By providing (a) simple detachment mechanism(s), such as the locate-and-twist mechanism illustrated in Fig. 3, the detachment operation can be easily automated by programming simple movement instructions (a twist movement, followed by an axial movement of bulkhead 126) into a robot arm controller to which the atomizer 110 is mounted.

As an alternative to the locate-and-twist mechanism, a remotely actuable mechanism may be provided. For example, one of the assembly 124 and bulkhead 126 can be provided with (a) suitably shaped recess(es), while the other of the assembly 124 and bulkhead 126 is provided with (a) complementarily shaped member(s) which is (are) adapted to be moved to engage in the recess(es). The movement may be provided, for example, by way of (an) electromechanical actuator(s), such as (a) relay(s) and plunger(s), electromagnet(s) that can be switched on to secure the assembly 124 to the bulkhead 126, and off to detach assembly from bulkhead 126, and so on. Such switching may be under the control of a process controller 127 through, for example, a Controller Area Network bus (CANbus) which can address the electromechanical actuator(s) to engage and disengage the assembly 124 to and from the bulkhead 126.
7 Referring to Fig. 4, a docking station 150 has a top surface 152 with an opening 154 into which the atomizer 110 can be inserted so that the outer dimensions of the assembly 124 rests on a ledge 156, while the housing 112 and the electrodes 122 extend through the opening into the interior 158 of station 150. A
locking mechanism such as, for example, complementary remotely activated sliding pin(s) 160 and aligned hole(s) 162, is actuable to lock assembly 124 to station 150.
Sliding pin(s) 160 may be remotely activated by means of, for example, process controller 127 through the CANbus 129. The pin(s) 160 may be activated by means of (a) solenoid(s) or similar device(s) 163.

Once locked by the locking mechanism, the housing 112 and the bulkhead 126 can be detached from the assembly 124 by actuation of the detachment means 128. The housing 112 and the bulkhead 126 can then be maneuvered away from the docking station 150, leaving the assembly 124 docked. The housing 112 can then be maneuvered into more confined spaces to continue dispensing of coating material without the bulkier envelope engendered by the assembly 124.

Cleaning nozzles 157 are provided in the interior 158 of the docking station 150, so that the entire assembly 110, 124 can be subjected to cleaning when it is in the orientation illustrated in Fig. 4 and/or so that assembly 124 can be subjected to cleaning while assembly 124 is in the docked position after housing 112 and bulkhead 126 have been maneuvered away from the docking station 150, leaving the assembly 124 docked.

An illustrative coating application process utilizing indirect charge technology with a coating robot utilizing an automatically detachable assembly and an in-process applicator cleaner 150 includes the following process steps:

1. Spray (an) exterior surface(s) of an automotive vehicle with the assembly 110, 124 with an indirect charge process, running the electrode-to-target potential at, for example, 70 KV, electrode(s) 122 negative with respect to target vehicle;

2. Switch the high voltage, such that the electrode 122-to-target potential assumes, for example, 0 KV, and manipulate the coating robot 115 such that the atomizer 110 is presented at the docking station 150 for removal of the assembly
8 124. Manipulate the robot 115 and operate the controller 127 such that the assembly 124 is unlocked from the bulkhead 126 and supported on the docking station 150;

3. Move the coating robot 115 into position to resume coating the interior and cut-in areas of the target vehicle at 0 KV using the atomizer 110 with assembly 124 disassembled therefrom and left at the docking station 150;

4. Move the atomizer 110 to a separate cleaning station (not shown) and clean it, or move it back to the docking station 150, insert it through the assembly 124 into the interior of the docking station 150, and clean the atomizer 110 and reattach the assembly 124;

5. Move the coating robot 115 into position to resume coating the exterior of the next vehicle to be conveyed through the coating application space, switch the high voltage supply 117 to the assembly 124 back on, switch on the supplies 111, 113 of compressed air (where compressed air is used in atomization and dispensing of coating material) and of the next coating material to be dispensed on, and resume coating.
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1. A coating material atomizing and dispensing apparatus comprising an atomizer, an assembly of electrodes, the electrode assembly being removably coupled to the atomizer to permit the assembly to be disassembled from the atomizer to permit entry of the atomizer through an opening smaller than the atomizer-electrode assembly can pass through.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein one of the assembly and the atomizer includes a surface providing a groove, the groove including a first portion and a second portion, and the other of the assembly and the atomizer includes a protrusion, insertion of the protrusion into the first portion and subsequent relative manipulation of the atomizer and assembly to move the protrusion into the second portion assembling the assembly and the atomizer.
3. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the atomizer includes the protrusion and the assembly includes the surface providing the groove.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the electrode assembly comprises a ring-shaped support, with the electrodes extending generally in a common direction from a surface thereof.
5. The apparatus of claim 1 further including a source of coating material to be atomized and dispensed, and a conduit for coupling the source of coating material to the atomizer.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 further including a source of high magnitude potential and a conductor for coupling the source of high magnitude potential to the electrodes.
7. The apparatus of claim 1 further including a device for supporting the assembly when the assembly is disassembled from the atomizer.
8. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the device includes an interior into which at least a portion of the assembly including the electrodes projects when the assembly is disassembled from the atomizer, the interior including at least one outlet for dispensing onto the at least a portion of the assembly that projects into the interior an agent for removing coating material from the at least a portion of the assembly that projects into the interior.
9. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein the device includes a mechanism actuable to attach the assembly to the device to minimize the likelihood of accidental dislodgement of the assembly from the device when the assembly is disassembled from the atomizer.
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