| CPC B05B 12/04 (2013.01) [B05B 12/004 (2013.01); B05D 1/02 (2013.01)] | 16 Claims |
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1. A coating installation for coating a component with a coating agent, having
a) an applicator for applying the coating agent,
b) a manipulator for moving the applicator over the component surface, and
c) a control system for controlling the manipulator and the applicator,
d) wherein the control system:
d1) defines a pattern on the component surface of the component to be coated, the pattern being a surface region which is bordered by a contour,
d2) areal coats the component surface within the contour,
d3) sharp-edge coats the component surface along at least part of the contour of the pattern, and
e) wherein the control system at least one of:
e1) determines the type of a manipulator for guiding an applicator,
e2) reads out a manipulator-specific parameter set from a memory, the manipulator-specific parameter set representing properties of the manipulator,
e3) defines a type of applicator,
e4) reads an applicator-specific parameter set from a memory, the applicator-specific parameter set representing properties of the applicator,
e5) defines a path program-specific parameter set, the path program-specific parameter set defining properties of a robot path, including at least one of the following:
coating path width,
curve radius of the robot path,
coating volume flow,
maximum path speed,
e6) reads the pattern from a memory,
e7) analyses the read out pattern to determine the contour,
e8) calculates a path program including at least one of the following:
approach paths,
departure paths,
switch-on points, and
switch-off points, and
e9) visualizes the path program.
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