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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2004
Takuya Miyakawa, Nagano-ken, JP;
Shinya Momose, Nagano-ken, JP;
Takayuki Suzuki, Saitama-ken, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To provide a coating apparatus, which can surely prevent a coating solution from spreading, to simplify a manufacturing process and reduce the manufacturing cost and provide a coating method using the same. The coating apparatus includes a holding table holding a plate having a through hole penetrating in a thickness direction; and a coating head including a slit-shaped nozzle orifice which discharges a coating solution, the nozzle orifice being opposed to a coating surface opposite to a holding surface held on the holding table. The coating apparatus applies the coating solution to the coating surface of the plate by moving the plate and the coating head relative to each other in an in-plane direction of the coating surface. In addition, the coating apparatus includes coating preventing means, which prevents the coating solution from entering the through hole of the plate.