EP1060795B1 - Steuerung für eine elektrostatische Sprühbeschichtungseinrichtung - Google Patents

Steuerung für eine elektrostatische Sprühbeschichtungseinrichtung Download PDF

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EP1060795B1
EP1060795B1 EP00110032A EP00110032A EP1060795B1 EP 1060795 B1 EP1060795 B1 EP 1060795B1 EP 00110032 A EP00110032 A EP 00110032A EP 00110032 A EP00110032 A EP 00110032A EP 1060795 B1 EP1060795 B1 EP 1060795B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B5/00—Electrostatic spraying apparatus; Spraying apparatus with means for charging the spray electrically; Apparatus for spraying liquids or other fluent materials by other electric means
    • B05B5/08—Plant for applying liquids or other fluent materials to objects
    • B05B5/10—Arrangements for supplying power, e.g. charging power

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  • the invention relates to a spray coating device according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • a spray coating device of this kind is known from EP 0 734 778 A2 known.
  • a spray coating device in which an operator can enter via a keyboard a desired voltage value and a desired current value, which should be kept constant by a control device.
  • a threshold value is provided for the distance between the spray device and the object to be coated. If the distance is greater than the threshold value, then the high voltage at the high voltage electrode of the spraying device is kept constant independently of the object distance, whereby the spraying current of the high voltage electrode increases with increasing object distance becomes smaller or with decreasing object distance. If the distance is less than the threshold, then the spray current is kept constant independent of changes in distance by counteracting a current increase by a corresponding voltage reduction. Immediately before the object touches the spray device, the high voltage breaks down completely (contact protection).
  • Spray current from the electrode to the object to be coated is indirectly measured by measuring the electric current flowing through a primary winding of a transformer to the secondary winding of which a high voltage cascade circuit with rectifiers and capacitors is connected, which generates the high voltage DC voltage for the electrode.
  • a spray coating device in which an increase in the spray flow when an object to be coated approaches the spray device is counteracted by a corresponding reduction of the high voltage in order to keep the spray flow constant.
  • the spray current is measured indirectly by measuring the current flowing in the secondary winding between the transformer and a high voltage cascade circuit.
  • a spray coating device is known, in which also the input voltage of a high voltage generator is changed inversely to the spraying current, wherein the spraying current is measured indirectly at an electrical resistance upstream of the high voltage electrode by measuring a voltage drop.
  • the invention enables the problem to be solved to avoid the dangers of excessive electrical voltage to the high voltage electrode at a large distance of an electrically conductive object or too high a current or short-circuit current in close proximity of an object to the high voltage electrode, wherein the object be coated object or an operator or other object, and at the same time form the spray coating device such that optimum coating results are achieved with minimal electrical energy expenditure.
  • the invention is particularly advantageous in connection with a counter electrode which is connected to a potential which has a high electrical voltage difference to the high voltage potential of the high voltage electrode, e.g. B. is connected to ground potential to dissipate free electric particles, in particular ions and electrons, which emanate from the Hochspannunselektrode, but freely herumavagundieren, instead of with the spray coating material from the sprayer to the flying object.
  • Counter electrodes are z. B. from the EP 0 756 899 A2 known.
  • the spray coating device shown schematically in Fig. 1 comprises a spraying device 2 for spraying coating material 4 in the form of liquid or preferably powder on an object to be coated 6. It is assumed that the objects to be coated consist of electrically conductive material and connected to ground potential 8 are.
  • the objects 6 are transported in the case of automatic systems through a conveying device, not shown, past the spraying device 2 and thereby reach the spray jet of the coating material 4 schematically represented by an arrow.
  • the spray device 2 is provided with at least one high voltage electrode 10 for electrostatically charging the coating material 4, which is supplied by a high voltage DC voltage source 12 in the range between 1 kV and 150 kV, preferably one therebetween lying value, is supplied.
  • the high voltage generator may include, in a known manner, a transformer for stepping up a low AC voltage to a higher AC voltage and a cascade circuit which in a known manner contains a plurality of rectifiers and capacitors and converts the AC voltage to the DC high voltage.
  • the low alternating voltage is generated by an oscillator 14 in response to a control voltage U-ST, which is a manipulated variable for the high voltage of the high voltage electrode 10.
  • the oscillator 14 may be a part of the high voltage generator 12 and be integrated as such in the spray device 2, or according to FIG. 1 integrated into a control unit, which forms a total of a control device 16.
  • the control device 16 includes an operating parameter memory 18, which via a data transfer path 19 from a data input station, such as a higher-level computer or manually, z. B. via a keyboard, variably adjustable at least one high-voltage limiting value HV-BG and at least one Sprühstrombegrenzungswert I-BG each for the maximum achievable value at the high voltage electrode can be entered and stored therein.
  • a data input station such as a higher-level computer or manually, z. B. via a keyboard
  • variably adjustable at least one high-voltage limiting value HV-BG and at least one Sprühstrombegrenzungswert I-BG each for the maximum achievable value at the high voltage electrode can be entered and stored therein.
  • a plurality of such values can be stored for different operating situations, in particular for different objects to be coated and different spray coating materials.
  • the stored values may be non-settable fixed values in another embodiment.
  • the high voltage limit value HV-BG is input from the operating parameter memory 18 into a high voltage limiting circuit 20.
  • the spray current limit value I-BG is input from the operating parameter memory 18 to a spray current controller 22.
  • the spraying current of the high-voltage electrode 10 flowing from an object 6 to be coated to earth is measured by a spray current circuit 24 on the side of the objects 6 connected to ground 8 and also input into the spray current regulator as the actual spray current value I-S.
  • the spray current controller 22 compares the actual spray current value 1-S- with the spray current limit value I-BG and, in response thereto, generates a high-voltage regulator quantity U-RG which is given by the spray current regulator 22 to the high voltage limit circuit 20.
  • the spray current controller 22 is preferably a P-I controller (proportional-integral controller).
  • the high voltage limiting circuit 20 generates depending on the Hochgêtsbegrenzungswert HV-BG and the high-voltage regulator size U-RG the control voltage U-ST, which is supplied to the oscillator 14 in the form of a DC input voltage and the manipulated variable for the high voltage of the high voltage electrode 10.
  • FIG. 2 shows the spray current in ⁇ A on the horizontal axis and the corresponding high voltage in kV on the vertical axis.
  • the top characteristic 26 with filled squares is a standard characteristic. It shows how in known devices with decreasing distance between the high voltage electrode 10 and an object to be coated 6, the spray current of the high voltage electrode 10 increases and at the same time the high voltage drops.
  • the high voltage has its maximum value at the greatest possible distance or infinitely large distance of the object 6 to be coated or another electrically conductive object from the high-voltage electrode 10.
  • the middle curve 27 with the non-filled squares relates to an embodiment in which the maximum DC high voltage of the high voltage electrode 10 is limited to a maximum value HV-BG of 80 kV, but no current limiting I-BG was made.
  • the spraying device 2 is shown in somewhat more detail. It shows that one or more high voltage electrodes 10 may be disposed outside or within a coating material channel 30. He is coating material, for. As coating powder, via a line 31, z. B. a hose supplied.
  • the spray device 2 with a reference potential, z. Ground potential, connected counterelectrodes 32 (arrester electrodes) may be provided, which absorb free electric charges (ions, electrons), which are discharged from the electrodes 10, and divert them to earth potential. It has been found that substantially less free electrical particles are formed by the invention, in particular free ions, and thus also a lower power loss.
  • the oscillator 14 is connected via an electrical cable 36 to the high voltage generator 12, which is integrated into the spray device 2, but also separated from it, z. B. in the control device 16 could be arranged.

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  • Application Of Or Painting With Fluid Materials (AREA)
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  • Encapsulation Of And Coatings For Semiconductor Or Solid State Devices (AREA)
  • Formation And Processing Of Food Products (AREA)
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