Invention Application
- Patent Title: PAINT SPRAYER DISTRIBUTED CONTROL AND OUTPUT VOLUME MONITORING ARCHITECTURES
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Application No.: US17454448Application Date: 2021-11-10
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Publication No.: US20220066482A1Publication Date: 2022-03-03
- Inventor: Christopher M. Lange , Nicholas A. Pagano , Benjamin R. Godding , Mark T. Weinberger , Michael J. Mansheim , Nicholas H. Reath , Andrew J. Kopel , Daniel R. Johnson , Kevin C. Robb , Robert J. Gundersen
- Applicant: Graco Minnesota Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MN Minneapolis
- Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.
- Current Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MN Minneapolis
- Main IPC: G05D16/20
- IPC: G05D16/20 ; G05D23/19 ; G05B15/02 ; B05B7/04 ; B05B7/16 ; H04Q9/00 ; B05B12/00

Abstract:
A sprayer for spraying fluid includes a pump, a motor that drives the pump, a drive cycle indicator, a wireless module configured to send and receive information, and control circuitry. The drive cycle indicator outputs an indication of cycle status of the pump. The control circuitry is configured to receive the plurality of cycle status indications of the pump, determine a plurality of output values representing paint spray fluid output volume over a plurality of time windows based on the plurality of cycle status indications of the pump, store the plurality of output values in memory, and cause the wireless module to transmit one or more of the stored plurality of output values externally from the sprayer.
Public/Granted literature
- US11385662B2 Paint sprayer distributed control and output volume monitoring architectures Public/Granted day:2022-07-12
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