Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Takashi Wakimoto

Hiroki Matsunaga

Naoki Kishimoto

Masashi Takebe

Daisuke Nakazono

Takayuki Ueki

Masayuki Yamaguchi

Toshiyuki Kokubo

Masaki Shigekura

Kouichi Tanizaki

Satoshi Sakamoto

Yusuke Kawaguchi

A liquid-mixing apparatus used in a liquid-mixing method comprises a plurality of supply valves provided to a cylinder. The supply valves make it possible to individually supply a plurality of types of liquids into a retention chamber. Each of the supply valves is configured so as to be switchable between an open state, in which the interior of a supply channel via which a liquid is supplied and the interior of the retention chamber intercommunicate, and a closed state, in which communication between the supply channel and the retention chamber is blocked. A piston moves in the direction in which the volume of the retention chamber increases while at least one of the supply valves is in the open state, whereby a liquid is drawn into the storage chamber.

Liquid-mixing apparatus and liquid-mixing method

The invention provides an intermediate storage device of an electrostatic coating system that can clean efficiently, a method for cleaning the same, and a method for coating. An intermediate storage devicecomprises: a first holewhich is open to a cylinder chamberand is connected to a paint supply source; a second holewhich is open to the cylinder chamberand is connected to a coating gun; and a switch means which switches between a first cleaning which cleans the cylinder chamberby supplying cleaning fluid W from the first holeand discharging from the second holewaste fluid that has undergone cleaning and a second cleaning which cleans the cylinder chamberby supplying cleaning fluid W from the second holeand discharging from the first holewaste fluid that has undergone cleaning.

Intermediate storage device of electrostatic coating system , method for cleaning the same, and method for coating

When paint is supplied from a first cylinder device () to an application part () and the application part () performs an application, next applied paint is fed from a supply valve part () to a second cylinder device (). The first cylinder device () and the second cylinder device () are connected to each other after the application by the application part (), and the paint in the second cylinder device () is supplied to the first cylinder device ().

Paint supply system and paint supply method

An electrostatic painting method is disclosed in which air inside a paint feed channel is expelled when a color for painting is changed. An electrically conductive paint is channeled into a discharge channel of a fluid pathway, and the flow rate of the paint is measured. The fluid pathway is provided, via a paint valve, to a color changing valve mechanism, and communicates with a paint cartridge. The changing valve mechanism is provided in a distant position relative to a painting gun. Electrically conductive paint is channeled through a paint feed channel, which extends from the color changing valve mechanism to the painting gun, and air inside the paint feed channel is expelled. The paint feed channel is then filled with the electrically conductive paint according to the value measured for the flow rate.

Electrostatic painting method and apparatus

An electrostatic coating method in which a coating material cartridge is used. When a coating material feeding path () is cleaned by a liquid fed from a coating material feeding unit (), the liquid is fed from the coating material feeding unit to a storage part () and stored. The liquid in the storage part is then fed to a fluid chamber () inside a coating material cartridge () via a fluid circuit (A). The liquid in the fluid chamber pushes out the electrically conductive coating material inside a coating material chamber () via a free piston (), and the electrically conductive coating material is fed to a coating gun ().

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Tochigi, Japan

Takashi Wakimoto