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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2021
3m Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Ann M. Gilman, Bayport, MN (US);
Kevin T. Reddy, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Shawn C. Dodds, St. Paul, MN (US);
Matthew R. D. Smith, Woodbury, MN (US);
Clinton J. Cook, Woodbury, MN (US);
Mikhail L. Pekurovsky, Bloomington, MN (US);
Matthew S. Stay, Bloomington, MN (US);
3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for screen or stencil printing a pattern on a substrate are provided. The substrate () has its major surface in contact with a first major surface () of a stencil shell () having apertures (). A coating material is disposed onto the second major surface () of the stencil shell () to flow through the apertures () to contact the substrate (), where the coating material is at least partially cured. The substrate () is separated (C) from the first major surface () of the stencil shell () after the curing () and a pattern () of the at-least-partially-cured coating material is formed on the substrate ().