161 |
DISCHARGE ELECTRODE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISCHARGE ELECTRODE, ION GENERATING APPARATUS, AND ELECTROSTATIC ATOMIZING APPARATUS |
US13819187 |
2011-09-06 |
US20130155567A1 |
2013-06-20 |
Takayuki Nakada; Takafumi Omori; Yusuke Yamada; Kazunobu Nakata; Toshihiro Ito; Takashi Kozai; Shinya Murase |
A discharge electrode includes a surface layer to which a surface treatment that enables solder bonding is applied. |
162 |
ELECTROSTATIC ATOMIZATION DEVICE |
US13819204 |
2011-08-31 |
US20130153690A1 |
2013-06-20 |
Takafumi Omori; Takayuki Nakada; Yusuke Yamada |
An electrostatic atomization device comprises: an electric discharge electrode having a front end section and a base end section; a cooling section for cooling the electric discharge electrode; a high-voltage application section for generating electrically charged water particles by atomizing condensed water, which is held by the electric discharge electrode, by causing the front end section of the electric discharge electrode to discharge electricity; and a heat capacity adjustment member provided to the vicinity of the base end section of the electric discharge electrode and capable of heat transfer with the electric discharge electrode through the condensed water held by the electric discharge electrode. |
163 |
Electrostatic coating apparatus with insulation enlarging portions |
US12672790 |
2008-08-07 |
US08430058B2 |
2013-04-30 |
Masahito Sakakibara; Hisanori Nakamura; Youichi Hanai; Hideki Saito; Michio Mitsui; Toshio Hosoda; Kiyoto Kobayashi; Takeshi Ichikawa; Yoshinori Aida |
Provided is an electrostatic coating apparatus capable of insulating an electric motor electrically from a member, to which an electrostatic high voltage is applied, and reducing the size and weight of the electrostatic coating apparatus. This electrostatic coating apparatus comprises a rotary atomizing head, to which high voltage is electrostatically applied, an electrostatically grounded AC servomotor, and a spindle and a fixed insulating member for insulating the AC servomotor electrically from the rotary atomizing head and a speed-increasing device to be set at the same potential as that of the former. The spindle and the fixed insulating member have insulation distance enlarging portions and of the mode, in which the creepage insulation distances from the speed-increasing device to the AC servomotor are enlarged. |
164 |
Oxidation and reduction fine particles generator |
US12745795 |
2008-12-24 |
US08418942B2 |
2013-04-16 |
Hiroshi Suda; Masaharu Machi; Yasunori Matsui; Takayuki Nakada |
An oxidation and reduction fine particles generator includes an atomization electrode, a water feeder for supplying water to the atomization electrode and a high voltage generator, and also includes a switch device and a controller. The switch device changes an operation mode to an oxidation mode or a reduction mode. The controller generates negatively charged fine water particles including radicals through electrostatic atomization by applying a high voltage to water supplied to the atomization electrode in the oxidation mode. The controller also inactivates and activates the water feeder and the high voltage generator, respectively to generate reduction fine particles from the atomization electrode by dry discharge in the reduction mode. |
165 |
Apparatuses and methods for applying one or more materials on one or more substrates |
US12404398 |
2009-03-16 |
US08342120B2 |
2013-01-01 |
Kyekyoon Kim; Hyungsoo Choi; Philip Edward Heil, III |
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an apparatus having a tube with an ingress opening to receive a liquid, and an egress opening to release the liquid, a conductor positioned in a conduit of the tube, the conductor and the conduit having dimensions to cause a surface tension of the liquid to prevent a constant flow of the liquid from the egress opening, and a power supply coupled to the conductor to apply a charge to the liquid to overcome the surface tension and form at the egress opening a single jet stream of the liquid applicable on a substrate to create a pattern. The single jet stream can be controllable in part by a viscosity of the liquid. Additional embodiments are disclosed. |
166 |
SPRAYING DEVICE AND METHOD |
US13266289 |
2010-04-22 |
US20120058264A1 |
2012-03-08 |
Gregory Filou; Denis Huze; Aline Thomas |
The present invention relates to a spraying nozzle, a spraying device including such a nozzle, and a spraying method implementing such a device. A nozzle for projecting powdery sold products for coating objects. The nozzle comprises a body having an essentially cylindrical shape and comprises at least two tunnels extending there through and insulated from each other. Each tunnel developing helically about a main axis of the nozzle. The tunnels are independently supplied with a fluid/powdery solid(s) mixture. The helical shape of the tunnels makes it possible to obtain a powerful jet with a conical shape capable of coating the inner surfaces of tubular objects. |
167 |
ELECTROSTATIC COATING APPARATUS |
US12672790 |
2008-08-07 |
US20120031329A1 |
2012-02-09 |
Masahito Sakakibara; Hisanori Nakamura; Youichi Hanai; Hideki Saito; Michio Mitsui; Toshio Hosoda; Kiyoto Kobayashi; Takeshi Ichikawa; Yoshinori Aida |
Provided is an electrostatic coating apparatus capable of insulating an electric motor electrically from a member, to which an electrostatic high voltage is applied, and reducing the size and weight of the electrostatic coating apparatus. This electrostatic coating apparatus comprises a rotary atomizing head, to which high voltage is electrostatically applied, an electrostatically grounded AC servomotor, and a spindle and a fixed insulating member for insulating the AC servomotor electrically from the rotary atomizing head and a speed-increasing device to be set at the same potential as that of the former. The spindle and the fixed insulating member have insulation distance enlarging portions of the mode, in which the creepage insulation distances from the speed-increasing device to the AC servomotor are enlarged. |
168 |
Imparted charge in situ pipelining device |
US13178574 |
2011-07-08 |
US08109231B1 |
2012-02-07 |
Kent Weisenberg; Dudley Primeaux, II |
The invention pertains to a lining device that can be pulled through a pipe having an approximate diameter between 1 and 36 inches. The device sprays an electrically charged lining mixture 360° onto the inside pipe surface. The lining mixture is electro-statically charged to facilitate full encapsulation and adhesion to all pipe wall surfaces in a circumferentially uniform thickness. The lining device can be contained in a multipart housing having flexible rod-like components that hold the device in the center of the longitudinal axis of the pipe. The lining mixture is conveyed to the device through heated non expanding hose. The non expanding properties facilitate the delivery of the lining under pressure to the device. The device also incorporates a dwell cone having a knurled edge that atomizes the lining mixture as it is centrifugally thrown onto the pipe wall. The device may further incorporate nitrogen in mixing the lining material. |
169 |
VAPORIZING OR ATOMIZING OF ELECTRICALLY CHARGED DROPLETS |
US13094637 |
2011-04-26 |
US20110262650A1 |
2011-10-27 |
Sang In LEE |
A vaporizing apparatus includes a chamber, a nozzle for dispersing a liquid into droplets, an electrode electrically isolated from the nozzle, and a heater for generating a vapor by applying heat to the droplets. The voltage source applies charges to the droplets by applying a voltage between the nozzle and the electrode. The vaporizing apparatus may be used to devices that deposit organic or inorganic thin films by chemical vapor deposition and/or atomic layer deposition processes, devices for supplying precursor materials that are deposited to form a thin film in organic light emitting diodes, devices that supply organic or inorganic precursor materials for encapsulation, and devices for supplying organic or inorganic polymer. |
170 |
Imparted charge in situ pipelining device |
US12963312 |
2010-12-08 |
US07992514B1 |
2011-08-09 |
Kent Weisenberg; Dudley Primeaux, II |
The invention pertains to a lining device that can be pulled through a pipe having an approximate diameter between 1 and 36 inches. The device sprays an electrically charged lining mixture 360° onto the inside pipe surface. The lining mixture is electro-statically charged to facilitate full encapsulation and adhesion to all pipe wall surfaces in a circumferentially uniform thickness. The lining device can be contained in a multipart housing having flexible rod-like components that hold the device in the center of the longitudinal axis of the pipe. The lining mixture is conveyed to the device through heated non expanding hose. The non expanding properties facilitate the delivery of the lining under pressure to the device. The device also incorporates a dwell cone having a knurled edge that atomizes the lining mixture as it is centrifugally thrown onto the pipe wall. The device may further incorporate nitrogen in mixing the lining material. |
171 |
Electrostatically atomizing device |
US12301599 |
2007-05-22 |
US07983016B2 |
2011-07-19 |
Shousuke Akisada; Kenji Obata |
An electrostatically atomizing device comprises an emitter electrode, an opposed electrode, cooling means for condensing water on the emitter electrode, and a high voltage source; and high voltage is applied to the condensed water so that minute water particles are discharged from a discharge end at a tip of the emitter electrode. The device comprises a controller for causing the charged minute water particles to be discharged stably. The controller has an initial control mode and a normal control mode. In the initial mode, the cooling means is controlled so as to cool the emitter electrode at a predetermined cooling rate. Once discharge current reaches into a predetermined target discharge current range, the cooling means is controlled by feedback control, on the basis of the value of the discharge current, in such a manner that the discharge current is kept within the target discharge current range. |
172 |
Electrostatically atomizing device |
US12091637 |
2006-10-30 |
US07854403B2 |
2010-12-21 |
Takeshi Yano; Toshihisa Hirai; Sumio Wada; Akihide Sugawa; Tatsuhiko Matsumoto; Shousuke Akisada |
An electrostatically atomizing device includes a housing and an electrostatically atomizing unit disposed within the housing. The atomizing unit includes an emitter electrode and an heat exchanger. The heat exchanger cools the emitter electrode to develop condensed water. A high voltage is applied to the emitter electrode in order to electrostatically atomizing the condensed water and generate a mist of charged minute water particles. The housing accommodates a fan generating an air flow accelerating a heat radiation of the heat exchanger, and a high voltage source generating the high voltage applied to the emitter electrode. The heat exchanger has its heat radiator section exposed to a flow passage of the air flow. The atomizing unit is formed with an air inlet for introducing the air flow which carries the mist of the charged minute water particles and release the mist. The atomizing unit and the high voltage source are arranged on opposite sides of the flow passage. A first air intake port for feeding the forced air flow from the fan and a second air intake port for feeding the air flow into the high voltage source are positioned upstream of a second air intake port which introduce the forced air flow into the flow passage. |
173 |
Rotary atomizing-head type coating machine |
US11814090 |
2006-03-09 |
US07703700B2 |
2010-04-27 |
Shinichi Yasuda |
A rotary atomizing-head type coating machine, wherein a paint passage for flowing a paint to a rotary atomizing-head, a turbine air passage flowing a turbine air to the turbine of an air motor, a discharge air passage for flowing the turbine air after driving the turbine to the outside in the form of a discharge air, and a heat insulating air discharge passage of a heat insulated air passage axially extending while surrounding the discharge air passage and allowing hot heat insulated air to flow therein are formed in the bottom part of a housing body forming a housing. Thus, even if the turbine air expanded in a heat insulated state and reduced in temperature flows in the discharge air passage, the housing can be prevented from being cooled by the discharge air by flowing a heat insulated air with a temperature higher than that of the discharge air in the heat insulated air discharge passage. |
174 |
ELECTROSTATICALLY ATOMIZING DEVICE |
US12091637 |
2006-10-30 |
US20100044476A1 |
2010-02-25 |
Takeshi Yano; Toshihisa Hirai; Kishiko Hirai; Sumio Wada; Akihide Sugawa; Tatsuhiko Matsumoto; Shousuke Akisada |
An electrostatically atomizing device includes a housing and an electrostatically atomizing unit disposed within the housing. The atomizing unit includes an emitter electrode and an heat exchanger. The heat exchanger cools the emitter electrode to develop condensed water. A high voltage is applied to the emitter electrode in order to electrostatically atomizing the condensed water and generate a mist of charged minute water particles. The housing accommodates a fan generating an air flow accelerating a heat radiation of the heat exchanger, and a high voltage source generating the high voltage applied to the emitter electrode. The heat exchanger has its heat radiator section exposed to a flow passage of the air flow. The atomizing unit is formed with an air inlet for introducing the air flow which carries the mist of the charged minute water particles and release the mist. The atomizing unit and the high voltage source are arranged on opposite sides of the flow passage. A first air intake port for feeding the forced air flow from the fan and a second air intake port for feeding the air flow into the high voltage source are positioned upstream of a second air intake port which introduce the forced air flow into the flow passage. |
175 |
Electrostatic Atomizer |
US11988687 |
2006-07-14 |
US20090206185A1 |
2009-08-20 |
Shousuke Akisada; Toshihisa Hirai; Kishiko Hirai; Sumio Wada; Tatsuhiko Matsumoto |
An electrostatic atomizer comprising a discharge electrode, a counter electrode, a cooling source, a high voltage power supply and a voltage detector. The cooling source cools the discharge electrode to form thereon dew as water. The power supply applies high voltage for discharge across the electrodes. The detector detects voltage between the electrodes. The power supply includes a control device and a voltage stabilizing device that are opposite to each other in temperature characteristic. The control device operates to pick up the voltage detected with the detector via the voltage stabilizing device, and to adjust the high voltage applied across the electrodes through feedback control so that the voltage corresponds to specified discharge voltage. |
176 |
ELECTROSPRAYING METHOD FOR FABRICATION OF PARTICLES AND COATINGS AND TREATMENT METHODS THEREOF |
US11832257 |
2007-08-01 |
US20090035381A1 |
2009-02-05 |
John J. Stankus; Shubhayu Basu |
Electrospray systems and modified electrospray systems for the fabrication of core-shell particles for controlled-release and/or sustained-release treatment and delivery are herein disclosed. The electrospray system may include between one and a plurality of co-axially situated tubes. Each tube may be electrically connected to a power supply wherein a voltage may be applied thereto. Core-shell particles may be collected on a collection target, which may be a wet or dry collector, and electrically connected to the power supply. Core-shell particles and methods of manufacture are also disclosed. The precursors of the core-shell particles may be polymer- or biomacromolecule-based solutions and may include at least one treatment agent incorporated therein. The number of “core” particle(s) within the “shell” may vary and may provide different treatment agent release profiles depending on the material and/or chemical characteristics of the polymer and/or biomacromolecule used. Methods of treating a condition are also disclosed. A treatment may include delivery of a plurality of core-shell particles which include a treatment agent to a treatment site. Delivery may be performed by a surgical procedure or by a non-invasive procedure such as catheter delivery. |
177 |
Exhaust duct for a rotary sprayer having a pneumatic turbine |
US10576323 |
2004-10-19 |
US07325751B2 |
2008-02-05 |
Caryl Thome; Patrick Ballu |
The invention relates to a sprayer (1), comprising a pneumatic turbine (5), capable of rotating a bowl (6), the turbine being connected to a pressurized gas supply line (11), for driving said turbine and to a drive gas exhaust line (12). The exhaust line (12) is equipped with an inner sleeve (13) which defines the exhaust gas flow volume (V13), an annular gap (E) with a non-zero thickness being provided between the outer surface of the sleeve (13) and the inner surface of the line (12). The structure is compatible with a temperature gradient between the optionally low-temperature exhaust gas flow volume (V13) and the material (2) which forms the exhaust line (12), the risk of condensation being thus limited. |
178 |
Coding of Painting Spindle |
US11596347 |
2005-05-18 |
US20080022929A1 |
2008-01-31 |
Bjorn Lind |
Arrangement for coating of a surface with particles, comprising a spindle shaft (4) driven by an electric motor and provided with a means (8) which delivers the particles during rotation of the spindle shaft, wherein the motor control (34) integrated in the arragement (2) contains an identifying code, which can be read by the power supply of the electric motor. |
179 |
ATOMIZER AND ASSOCIATED OPERATING METHOD |
US11740400 |
2007-04-26 |
US20070262170A1 |
2007-11-15 |
Hans-Jurgen Nolte; Frank Herre; Andreas Fischer; Peter Marquardt |
The invention relates to an atomizer and method of operation for an atomizer having an application element for applying a spray of coating medium on a component to be coated and at least one integrated shroud air nozzle for delivering conditioned shroud air which at least partially surrounds the spray of the coating medium. |
180 |
Method And Cleaning Device For Cleaning A Spraying Device |
US11551671 |
2006-10-20 |
US20070089762A1 |
2007-04-26 |
Michael Baumann; Georg Sommer |
To clean an atomizer used for automatic series-production coating of work pieces in a cleaning device provided for this purpose, the outer housing of the atomizer is sprayed by nozzles of the cleaning device, while simultaneously painting and rinsing agents sprayed by the spray head of the atomizer in a short rinsing process are captured and discharged through a pipe section in the interior of the cleaning device. In electrostatic atomizers, voltage equalization between the atomizer and the cleaning device is performed beforehand. Through additional measures, the atomizer can be moved by the handling machine provided for this purpose only from one proper direction towards the cleaning device. |