IP Library Granted Patent US 12,251,728
Granted Patent B2
US 12,251,728 · App. 17/769,959 · Granted Mar 18, 2025

Adhesive coating device, adhesive coating method, and rotor manufacturing method

Inventors: Yuji Ishikawa (Mie-gun, JP); Hiroyuki Sano (Mie-gun, JP); Yoshihiro Igarashi (Kawasaki, JP)
Assignees: Toshiba Industrial Products and Systems Corporation; Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
B05D7/24B05C5/0216B05C5/0225B05C7/02B05C11/1002B05C11/1021B05D1/26B05D5/10B05C5/027B05D7/225H02K1/27H02K15/02
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Patent No.
US 12,251,728
App. No.
17/769,959
Granted
Mar 18, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An adhesive coating device for coating an inner wall surface of a workpiece provided with holes with an adhesive. A control device automatically executes an operation of applying the adhesive, the operation including positioning of the workpiece, relative positioning of a nozzle that applies the adhesive in a non-contact manner with respect to the workpiece, and moving of the nozzle, in which the adhesive is ejected and applied in an oblique direction from the nozzle to the inner wall surface of the hole, and the angle of the oblique direction is such an angle that the adhesive linearly ejected from the nozzle located outside the hole can be applied to the inner wall surface of the hole with a desired depth without interfering with an opening part of the hole.

Claims (11)

1. An adhesive coating device for coating an inner wall surface of a hole of a workpiece provided with holes-with an adhesive, the device comprising:

a table that holds the workpiece;

a jet-type dispenser that applies the adhesive in a non-contact manner by forming microparticles from the adhesive in a liquid form and linearly and successively ejecting the microparticles from a nozzle;

a robot that causes a relative position of the nozzle of the dispenser to freely move with respect to the hole of the workpiece; and

a computer that controls the mechanism and causes the mechanism to automatically execute an operation of applying the adhesive, the operation including positioning of the workpiece, relative positioning of the nozzle with respect to the workpiece, and moving of the nozzle,

wherein two pieces of the dispenser are symmetrically provided in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the holes are extending, the two pieces of the dispenser are disposed in an inclined form with respect to the direction perpendicular to the direction in which the holes are extending, the adhesive is ejected and applied in an oblique direction from the nozzle to the inner wall surface of the hole, an angle of the oblique direction is such an angle that the adhesive linearly ejected from the nozzle located outside the hole is able to be applied to the inner wall surface of the hole with a desired depth without interfering with an opening part of the hole, and application of the adhesive is alternately performed by the two pieces of the dispenser.

2. The adhesive coating device according to claim 1 , wherein the computer causes the coating to be executed while causing the nozzle to move in parallel with the inner wall surface of the hole.

3. The adhesive coating device according to claim 1 , wherein the computer locates the nozzle above the workpiece and performs the operation of applying the adhesive from an upper side of the hole.

4. The adhesive coating device according to claim 1 , further comprising

an image sensor that images the inner wall surface of the hole,

wherein the computer checks whether or not the operation of applying the adhesive has appropriately been performed from an image captured by the image sensor after application of the adhesive.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded Jul 29, 2025
From: TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
To: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
Reel/Frame 072239/0263 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 18, 2022
From: ISHIKAWA, YUJI; SANO, HIROYUKI; IGARASHI, YOSHIHIRO
To: TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION; TOSHIBA INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 059626/0514 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-194403 · Oct 25, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220355337A1 · Nov 10, 2022
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