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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014
Filed:
May. 23, 2008
Isamu Yamasaki, Toyota, JP;
Atsuo Nabeshima, Toyota, JP;
Michio Mitsui, Yokohama, JP;
Toshio Hosoda, Yokohama, JP;
Isamu Yamasaki, Toyota, JP;
Atsuo Nabeshima, Toyota, JP;
Michio Mitsui, Yokohama, JP;
Toshio Hosoda, Yokohama, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Ransburg Industrial Finishing K.K., Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Abstract
A rotary atomizing head, which has an inner peripheral surfacewhose diameter increases from a bottomof the inner peripheral surface toward a tip thereof, and atomizes and releases paint by applying a centrifugal force generated by rotation to the paint supplied to the bottom of the inner peripheral surface, includes a paint supply nozzlefor supplying the paint and a cleaning solution to the bottom of the inner peripheral surface, and the paint supply nozzle has a nozzle holefor discharging the paint and the cleaning solution from a rotation center O portion of the rotary atomizing head in a direction substantially perpendicular to a rotation axis of the rotary atomizing head. The rotary atomizing headalso includes a dam portionthat is provided in an intermediate portion between the bottom and the tip of the inner peripheral surface and dams the paint and the cleaning solution supplied from the paint supply nozzle to the bottom and flow along the inner peripheral surface toward the tip.