Design and Verification of Adaptive Adjustable Output Control on Micro Spray Gun

Abstract

The general spray gun is used for industrial large-area spraying, and there is less demand for different pressures and the accuracy of spraying pressure, so mechanical pressure regulators are mostly used. However, as the demand for artistic innovation continues to grow, it promotes the advent of the micro spray gun. The micro spray gun is currently commonly known as an airbrush. The micro spray gun is mainly used for fine drawing, so it must provide different pressures with high precision pressures, but the existing mechanical regulators cannot meet this requirement. For these unmet requirements, this study proposed a solution for PID (proportional-integral-derivative) control micro spray gun system. The results showed that the PID control could effectively provide various stable output pressures of the micro spray gun. The pressure-varying range of 30 kPa could rapidly return to the target value in 10 s (the usual spraying time). The proposed solution then presents better spraying effects.

Keywords

• micro air pump
• micro spray gun
• pressure control
• pulse width modulation