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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2020
Toyota Shatai Kabushiki Kaisha, Kariya, JP;
Toshiki Kuwayama, Kariya, JP;
Naohide Ishikawa, Kariya, JP;
TOYOTA SHATAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Kariya, JP;
Abstract
A coating apparatus includes a discharge unit, a moving unit, and a controller. The discharge unit includes a nozzle array with a plurality of nozzles, and is configured to discharge a coating material from each of the plurality of nozzles. The moving unit is configured to move a position of the discharge unit with respect to a to-be-coated surface along a plurality of paths. The controller is configured to determine, based on coating information, a width of a recoated portion on which the coating material is discharged in an overlapping manner between two adjacent paths among the plurality of paths, and determine a discharge amount from each of the plurality of nozzles so that a discharge amount from each of nozzles at an end portion of the nozzle array corresponding to the recoated portion is less than a discharge amount from each of other nozzles of the nozzle array.