US 12,246,335 B2
Paint mist collection device
Motoya Kobayashi, Toyota (JP); Kei Ito, Nagakute (JP); Daiyu Kato, Nagoya (JP); and Suzuka Onoda, Miyoshi (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Jul. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/811,399.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-129988 (JP), filed on Aug. 6, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0038492 A1, Feb. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. B05B 14/43 (2018.01); B01D 46/00 (2022.01); B05B 16/60 (2018.01)
CPC B05B 14/43 (2018.02) [B01D 46/0005 (2013.01); B05B 16/60 (2018.02)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A paint mist collection device comprising:
a housing configured such that an air flow containing paint mist discharged from a painting chamber flows into the housing;
a collection filter disposed in the housing to collect the paint mist and configured to be taken out of the housing to be replaced; and
a spacer member, wherein
the spacer member is held in a clearance between an in-flow opening portion of the collection filter configured such that the air flow flows into the in-flow opening portion and an inner surface of the housing,
the in-flow opening portion of the collection filter opens upward; and
the spacer member is a member with an L-shaped cross section that includes a vertical portion that abuts against an outer surface of an opening edge of the in-flow opening portion of the collection filter and a horizontal portion that abuts against a distal end of the opening edge.