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Surface spattering device

  • US 9,844,792 B2
  • Filed: 09/20/2011
  • Issued: 12/19/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A handheld, dynamically movable surface spattering device, comprisinga plurality of nozzles, each nozzle of the plurality of nozzles configured to expel spattering material onto a target surface;

  • a nozzle control mechanism configured to control characteristics of expelling the spattering material from the plurality of nozzles;

    a plurality of spattering material supplies, each spattering material supply of the plurality of spattering material supplies corresponding with a respective nozzle of the plurality of nozzles and associated with a different color of spattering material;

    a storage with a digital representation of a predefined artwork or image to be applied to the target surface, wherein the predefined artwork or image comprises a multicolor pattern;

    a spatial referencing unit to spatially reference the spattering device in space; and

    a computational unit to control the expelling by the nozzle control mechanism according to information gained by the spatial referencing unit and according to the digital representation of the predefined artwork or image spattering data, wherein;

    wherein the computational unit is configured to cause the nozzle and/or the nozzle control mechanism to apply the predefined artwork or predefined image onto the target surface with the sputtering material;

    the computational unit is configured to cause each of the plurality of nozzles to expel spattering material as a spattering spot to the target surface, wherein the spattering spot is dependent ona spatial reference of the spattering device;

    a set of characteristics of the expelling of the nozzle; and

    a measured or calculated distance and inclination of the nozzle relative to the target surface;

    wherein the computational unit is further configured to adjust the spattering spot by changing the characteristics of expelling of each of the plurality of nozzles in such a way that the target surface is spattered according to the predefined artwork or image in a multicolor pattern by a plurality of colors or materials, wherein the colors or materials are mixed by dithering a dot-matrix of spots of spattering material of a basic set of different colors or materials from the spattering material supply.

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