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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 11, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Carl R Kessel, St. Paul, MN (US);
William K Leonard, Troy Township, WI (US);
Assignee:
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05D / ; B05D / ; B05C / ; B05C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
427547 ; 427331 ; 427348 ; 427350 ; 427355 ; 427356 ; 427402 ; 427420 ; 427428 ; 118 63 ; 118123 ; 118126 ; 118410 ; 118411 ; 118324 ; 118D / ;
Abstract
A system for coating a substrate with ultra-thin layers in stripes includes moving the substrate through a coating station and forming a composite layer including coating fluids and a carrier fluid. The composite layer flows at a rate that is sufficiently high to form a continuous flowing fluid bridge of composite layer to the substrate surface and to contact the substrate with the flowing composite layer to interpose the coating layers between the substrate and the carrier fluid. The carrier fluid is removed while leaving the coating fluid deposited on the substrate as a coating layer.