Abb Schweiz Ag

Kisumi Iida

Takahiro Tawata

Norio Umezawa

A painting robot capable of reducing the influence of pressure fluctuations when paint is discharged or stopped. The painting robot includes a robot arm having a painting head unit attached to its tip, a paint supply mechanism provided between robot arm and painting head unit; and a control unit. The paint supply mechanism includes a paint circulation channel; paint transfer means and regulating valves provided in the middle of the paint circulation channel. The control unit is configured with a feedback control unit that calculates a pressure calculation value for executing feedback control.

Painting robot

According to the present disclosure, there is provided a coating determining device of a coating head that can prevent coating defect caused by clogging in multiple successive coatings. The coating determining device according to the present disclosure can determine a coating state of the coating head, wherein the coating head having a plurality of nozzles for ejecting paint, the plurality of nozzles being configured to eject the paint out of the nozzles so as to coat a workpiece with the ejected paint while moving in a direction, the coating determining device of the coating head being characterized by comprising: an image acquiring unit for acquiring an image of the coated workpiece; and a determination unit for determining, based on the image acquired by the image acquiring unit, whether coating the workpiece is implemented normally.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kisumi Iida