公开(公告)号：US20180001336A1

公开(公告)日：2018-01-04

申请号：US15199180

申请日：2016-06-30

Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Inventor： Pei-Hsin KUO ,  Weston Blaine GRIFFIN ,  Venkat Subramaniam VENKATARAMANI ,  Hrishikesh KESHAVAN

IPC: B05C11/04 ,  B22F5/00

CPC classification number: B05C11/045 ,  B05C5/027 ,  B05C11/023 ,  B05C11/04 ,  B05C17/002 ,  B22F5/009 ,  B22F7/08

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a squeegee apparatus which includes a main housing including an inlet end and an outlet end, the outlet end including an extrusion face and a protruding lip member, the inlet end including an inlet opening and the extrusion face including at least one outlet opening, wherein the inlet opening and the at least one outlet opening are in fluid communication with each other within the main housing. The present invention is also directed to a method for repairing a thermal barrier coating with a squeegee apparatus including supplying a repair composition into the inlet opening of the squeegee apparatus and depositing the repair composition from the at least one outlet opening onto the damaged region and concurrently traversing the squeegee apparatus over the damaged region while contacting a thermal barrier coating adjacent to the damaged region with the lip member.