Coating system and method

US10589300B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Bernard Patrick Bewlay · Niskayuna, US
• Ambarish Jayant Kulkarni · Glenville, US
• Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr. · Loveland, US
• Krzysztof Lesnicki · Schenectady, US
• Hrishikesh Keshavan · Clifton Park, US
• Mehmet Dede · Kyles, US
• Larry Steven Rosenzweig · Clifton Park, US
• Jay Morgan · Niskayuna, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 16, 2017
• Grant date: Mar 17, 2020
• Expiry date: Aug 18, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F05D2300/611
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

An atomizing spray device includes a housing having plural inlets and one or more outlets fluidly coupled with each other by an interior chamber. The inlets include a first inlet shaped to receive a first fluid and a second inlet shaped to receive a slurry of ceramic particles and a second fluid. The interior chamber in the housing is shaped to mix the first fluid received via the first inlet with the slurry received via the second inlet inside the housing to form a mixture in a location between the inlets and the one or more outlets. The interior chamber in the housing also is shaped to direct the mixture formed inside the housing as droplets outside of the housing via the one or more outlets such that, based on a discharged amount of the first fluid in the droplets, the first fluid promotes evaporation of the second fluid as the droplets traverse from the housing toward a surface of a component.