US 12,290,828 B2
Coating system and coating method
Katsuhiko Yoshino, Kitakyushu (JP); Naoyuki Ohtsubo, Kitakyushu (JP); Yasuhiro Kataoka, Kitakyushu (JP); and Kenichiro Shigeyoshi, Kitakyushu (JP)
Assigned to KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI, Kitakyushu (JP)
Filed by KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI, Kitakyushu (JP)
Filed on Sep. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/941,023.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-158911 (JP), filed on Sep. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0097222 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. B05B 13/04 (2006.01); B05B 13/02 (2006.01); B05D 7/14 (2006.01); B25J 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC B05B 13/0431 (2013.01) [B05B 13/0221 (2013.01); B05B 13/0452 (2013.01); B05D 7/14 (2013.01); B25J 11/0075 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A coating system comprising:
a conveyor configured to convey a vehicle body in a first direction;
a first robot configured to open an opening/closing portion of the vehicle body and having a first base via which the first robot is mounted to a structure forming a coating space;
a second robot configured to coat an interior of the vehicle body through the opening/closing portion opened by the first robot and having a second base via which the second robot is mounted, the second base being mounted lower than the first base in a vertical direction;
a moving device configured to move the second robot in the first direction and in a second direction intersecting the first direction, the moving device comprising:
a traveling device comprising a slider movable in the first direction; and
a turning arm connected to the slider rotatable around a turning axis which is along the vertical direction, the second base of the second robot being mounted on the turning arm; and
a control circuitry configured to move the slider and rotate the turning arm according to a position of a coating area in the interior of the vehicle body so that the second robot coats the coating area.