US 11,904,336 B2
Atomizer, installation including such an atomizer and related method
Camilien Beaudoin, Paris (FR); Michel Colrat, Paris (FR); Didier Faure, Paris (FR); Guillaume Foubert, Paris (FR); and Philippe Provenaz, Paris (FR)
Assigned to EXEL INDUSTRIES, Epernay (FR)
Filed by EXEL INDUSTRIES, Epernay (FR)
Filed on Mar. 7, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/194,304.
Claims priority of application No. 2002419 (FR), filed on Mar. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0283638 A1, Sep. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. B05B 12/00 (2018.01); B05B 13/04 (2006.01); B05B 5/04 (2006.01); B05B 12/12 (2006.01); B05B 5/043 (2006.01); B05B 12/10 (2006.01); B05B 13/02 (2006.01); B05B 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC B05B 12/126 (2013.01) [B05B 5/043 (2013.01); B05B 5/0407 (2013.01); B05B 5/0415 (2013.01); B05B 12/004 (2013.01); B05B 12/10 (2013.01); B05B 13/0278 (2013.01); B05B 13/0431 (2013.01); B05B 5/005 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An atomizer comprising:
an atomizer head configured:
to atomize a first fluid, and
to be brought to a first electrical potential value when the atomizer is at rest and to a second electrical potential value when the atomizer head atomizes the first fluid, the second value being strictly higher than the first value;
a base for attachment to a robot configured to move the atomizer, the base comprising:
at least one duct for supplying said atomizer head with the first fluid or with a second fluid; and
a connecting face to which said atomizer head is attached, the base and said atomizer head being aligned along an axis, the at least one supply duct opening onto the connecting face, and the connecting face comprising at least one valve configured to close the at least one supply duct;
a measurement module comprising:
a ring surrounding the connecting face in a plane perpendicular to the axis;
at least one sensor configured to measure the values of at least one parameter of the atomizer;
an electronic control module configured to receive the measured values;
a power supply configured to electrically supply said control module with a power supply voltage; and
a common reference point of electrical potentials of the measurement module, the reference point being a point from which an electrical potential of each of said at least one sensor, said power supply and said electronic control module are defined, the reference point being electrically connected to said atomizer head, the reference point of the measurement module having the same electrical potential as said atomizer head, the reference point having the second electrical potential value when said atomizer head atomizes the first fluid.