Patent ID: 9534311
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: C25D

Claim:
1. A system for pretreatment and primer electrodeposition of an assembly, the assembly being one of a vehicle body, a vehicle panel and a vehicle frame, the system comprising: a tank configured to receive the assembly in a vertical orientation, a longest dimension of the assembly disposed in the vertical orientation; and a robot having an arm with three axes of rotation and a distal end, the robot having a stationary base to which the arm is connected, the base fixedly mounted at a location spaced apart from and adjacent to the tank, the distal end being configured to attach and hold the assembly in the vertical orientation, the longest dimension of the assembly disposed in the vertical orientation, the robot being configured to move the distal end over the tank, to vertically lower the assembly into the tank and to vertically raise the assembly out of the tank by rotation of the arm about the three axes of rotation while maintaining the vertical orientation.