Robot comprising a cleaning device and associated operating method

US8726830B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Dürr Systems AG · DE

Inventors

• Frank Herre · Oberriexingen, DE
• Rainer Melcher · Oberstenfeld, DE
• Manfred Michelfelder · Höpfigheim, DE
• Thomas Hezel · Asperg, DE
• Juergen Haas · Knittlingen, DE
• Bernd Leiensetter · Ilsfeld, DE
• Alexander Meiβner · Stuttgart, DE
• Marcus Frey · Weil der Stadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 6, 2008
• Grant date: May 20, 2014
• Expiry date: Jun 27, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S901/49
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

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.