Nordson Corporation

Todd S Weston

Floriana Suriawidjaja

Alan Ray Lewis

Horatio Quinones

Alec J Babiarz

Erik A Fiske

Robert L Ciardella

Thomas L Ratledge

Christopher L Giusti

Kenneth S Espenschied

Joe Sherman

Ron Abernathy

Nicholas Anthony Barendt

James Everett Cooper, Jr

Patrick R Jenkins

Raymond Andrew Merritt

Naoya Ian Nagano

Jacques Mycke

Howard Acum

Robert Louis Hoffman

Robert H Hoffman

Erik Fiske

Thomas Ratledge

Robert Ciardella

Apparatus and methods of determining a position of a height sensor in a dispensing system. The dispensing system includes a dispenser, height sensor, camera, and a calibration device configured to receive a signal from the height sensor. The calibration device may include an optical sensor that generates an alignment signal in response to receiving light from the height sensor and/or a fiducial that causes the height sensor to generate the alignment signal in response to a detected height change. The alignment signal is used to automatically determine the position at which the height sensor is aligned with the calibration device. The position of the height sensor relative to a camera is determined by aligning the camera with the calibration device and recording its position. The recorded coordinates of the camera are compared to the coordinates of the height sensor when the height sensor is automatically aligned with the calibration device.

Automated position locator for a height sensor in a dispensing system

A viscous material noncontact jetting system has a jetting dispenser mounted for relative motion with respect to a surface. A control is operable to cause the jetting dispenser to jet a viscous material droplet that is applied to the surface as a viscous material dot. A device, such as a camera or weigh scale, is connected to the control and provides a feedback signal representing a size-related physical characteristic of the dot applied to the surface. The size-related physical characteristics of subsequently applied dots is controlled by heating and cooling, or adjusting a piston stroke in the jetting dispenser, in response to the size-related physical characteristic feedback. Dispensed material volume control and velocity offset compensation are also provided.

Viscous material noncontact jetting system

An applicator for dispensing a conformal coating material onto a substrate. The applicator has a body with a nozzle having a dispensing orifice at a distal end of the body, and assist air is supplied to a location adjacent the dispensing orifice. A seat is disposed in the nozzle around the dispensing orifice, and an end of a needle is movable into contact with and through the seat to terminate a flow of the coating material through the dispensing orifice and eliminate any coating material flow path downstream of the seat. A needle guide is used to laterally support the needle above the nozzle. The distal end of a nozzle is the distal end of the applicator and is exposed for cleaning.

Conformal coating applicator and method

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