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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Edwin E. Rice, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Assignee:
Cinetic Automation Corporation, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 1/000 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 1/000 ;
Abstract
A thermal spraying system includes thermal spray material, an electrical energy thermal spraying device atomizing and spraying the thermal spray material, a power supply supplying electrical power to the spraying device, a sensor monitoring a power characteristic of the supplied electrical power, and a feed rate control module adjusting a feed rate of the thermal spray material based on the monitored power characteristic.