US 12,103,033 B2
Modular adhesive dispensing device
Robert J. Woodlief, Duluth, GA (US); David R. Jeter, Duluth, GA (US); Brian R. Sosebee, Duluth, GA (US); Leonard J. Lanier, Duluth, GA (US); Enes Ramosevac, Duluth, GA (US); Peter W. Estelle, Duluth, GA (US); Jeffrey E. Owen, Duluth, GA (US); James R. Beal, Duluth, GA (US); Leslie J. Varga, Duluth, GA (US); John Daniels, Duluth, GA (US); Ronald M. Ramspeck, Duluth, GA (US); and John M. Riney, Duluth, GA (US)
Assigned to Nordson Corporation, Westlake, OH (US)
Appl. No. 17/761,798
Filed by Nordson Corporation, Westlake, OH (US)
PCT Filed Sep. 18, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/051398
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 18, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/055680, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 25, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/903,661, filed on Sep. 20, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0339662 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. B05C 5/02 (2006.01); B05C 11/10 (2006.01); B29B 13/02 (2006.01)
CPC B05C 11/1042 (2013.01) [B05C 5/02 (2013.01); B29B 13/022 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An adhesive dispensing device, comprising:
a melt module including a housing that defines a receiving space configured to receive an adhesive and a heater configured to heat the housing to melt the adhesive; and
a control module releasably connected to the melt module, wherein the control module includes a controller configured to automatically recognize a characteristic of the melt module selected from a plurality of characteristics of the melt module and operate the melt module using instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium of the controller that correspond to the selected characteristic of the melt module,
wherein the selected characteristic of the melt module is selected from the group consisting of (a) a volume of the receiving space selected from a plurality of volumes and (b) whether the melt module comprises either a manual fill mechanism or an automatic fill mechanism.