US 11,904,349 B2
Spray application system and method for applying a spray treatment
Yu-Chin Jou, Bellevue, WA (US); Brian R. Conlan, Seattle, WA (US); Thi Q. Nguyen, Everett, WA (US); Jeffrey T. Tan, Everett, WA (US); Ryan Walter Throckmorton, Seattle, WA (US); Eli Samuel Horden, Seattle, WA (US); and Arturo Trejo, St. Louis, MO (US)
Assigned to The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US)
Filed by The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US)
Filed on Nov. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/054,902.
Application 18/054,902 is a division of application No. 16/902,043, filed on Jun. 15, 2020, granted, now 11,511,314.
Prior Publication US 2023/0075908 A1, Mar. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. B05D 1/02 (2006.01); B05B 13/02 (2006.01)
CPC B05D 1/02 (2013.01) [B05B 13/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of applying a spray treatment onto a surface of an airframe of an aircraft, the method using a set of multiple modular hood units, each modular hood unit of the set including one or more enclosure walls that partially defines a combined enclosure having a shared interior volume, the method comprising:
assembling the set of multiple modular hood units to define the combined enclosure by, for each modular hood unit of the set:
interfacing one or more surfaces of an interior of a fuselage of the airframe with at least two airframe-interfacing edges of the modular hood unit to define a portion of a spray treatment region of the airframe, and
interfacing at least one inter-unit-interfacing edge of the modular hood unit with at least another inter-unit-interfacing edge of a neighboring modular hood unit of the set to form at least a portion of the combined enclosure; and
spraying a treatment fluid onto a surface of the airframe within the spray treatment region bounded by the combined enclosure.