Fanuc America Corporation

Fanuc Robotics North America, Inc.

Fanuc Robotics America Corporation

Michael G Beem

Stan Henry McClosky

Scott J Clifford

Marcin Gora

Matthew Ray Sikowski

James Bryon Gerds, Ii

Andrzej Grzegorz Bania

David Michael Moore

Stan H Mcclosky

Brad O Niederquell

Matthew Zimmerer

Donald S Bartlett

Paul D Copioli

Robert C Foti

Brad Niederquell

James M Kowalski

Roy A Jerue

Matt Zimmerer

W Daniel Mantz

Eric D Buchanan

W Mantz

A robotic apparatus for painting a workpiece includes a redundant axis robot for use in a robotic painting system. The redundant axis of rotation provides the robot arm additional flexibility in avoiding obstacles and reaching an interior of the workpiece to apply paint thereto. The robotic apparatus could be a seven-axis robot arm or a five-axis parallel link panel opener robot arm for opening and/or closing the panel. The robot arms are mounted on at least one vertically oriented column adjacent a path of travel of the workpiece through a painting booth and the robot arms can be mounted on a common base.

Robotic apparatus for painting

A painting robot outer arm includes a non-conductive housing mounting a color changer on the outside and a paint canister on the inside connected by an isolating paint transfer line. The paint canister is releasably attached to a piston ram and drive motor by a quick disconnect coupling. The paint supply is isolated from the applied high voltage by cleaning and drying the transfer line. The rate of filling of the canister can be controlled in response to sensed torque applied by a drive motor moving a piston in the paint canister.

Robotic apparatus with non-conductive wrist for painting

A cleaning system and method for a bell atomizer spray head provides an air/solvent mixture to an exterior surface of a bell cup through shaping air passages and outlets during a color change or bell cleaning operation. In the alternative, cleaning passages can be provided for the air/solvent mixture to exit adjacent the bell cup exterior.

Method and apparatus for cleaning a bell atomizer spray head

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Michael G Beem