Patent ID: 8601977

Claim:
An electronic spraycoating control device for controlling a spraycoating operation of a spraycoating unit, the device comprising: a plurality of spray coating programs divided into a first group of programs and a second group of programs, each program from the first group of programs and from the second group of programs having a plurality of adjustable parameters of the spraycoating operation; a first program selecting element for selecting the first group of programs; at least one second program selecting element different from the first program selecting element and for selecting the second group of programs; manually driven parameter setting elements different from the first and the second program selecting elements and for setting parameter reference values for the adjustable parameters of the first and second groups of programs; optical display units associated with the first and the second groups of programs to automatically display the set parameter reference values; at least one program from the second group of programs being selectable, by activation of the at least one second program selecting element, and including at least one adjustable parameter of the first group of programs and at least one fixed parameter of the second group of programs, wherein the at least one fixed parameter from the second group of programs is one of the adjustable parameters from the first group of programs; two program switching elements configured such that each actuation of one of the two program switching elements activates another program from the first group of programs in an ascending sequence, and each actuation of the other program switching element activates yet another program from the first group of programs in a reverse sequence; and an optical display configured to display an identification of the currently activated program from the first group of programs, wherein the at least one adjustable parameter is selected from the group consisting of a rate of coating powder fed to a spray gun, an electrode spray current, and a rate of compressed air supplied to fluidize the coating powder in the supply container.