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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2014
Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno, 's-Gravenhage, NL;
Ike Gerke De Vries, 's-Gravenhage, NL;
Maarten van Lent, 's-Gravenhage, NL;
Jeroen Anthonius Smeltink, 's-Gravenhage, NL;
Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO, 's-Gravenhage, NL;
Abstract
A slot-die coating apparatus for manufacturing a patterned coating layer () on a substrate () comprises a substrate carrier (), a coating device, a sensor facility () and a controller (). The substrate carrier () is arranged on a support for providing the substrate (). The coating device comprises a head-side unit and a support-side unit (resp.) that are mutually movable with respect to each other by a motor (). The head-side unit comprises a translator part () and a slot-die coating head (). The support-side unit () comprises a stator part () of the motor. The controller () controls the motor () to position the slot-die coating head at a desired distance (Ds). The support-side unit () has a mass that is at least equal to the mass of the head-side unit (), and the support-side unit () is flexibly coupled to the support ().