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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2009
Hideyuki Kobori, Numazu, JP;
Shuji Hanai, Numazu, JP;
Tomohito Shimizu, Numazu, JP;
Nobuyuki Nagasawa, Numazu, JP;
Tetsuya Hara, Numazu, JP;
Hideyuki Kobori, Numazu, JP;
Shuji Hanai, Numazu, JP;
Tomohito Shimizu, Numazu, JP;
Nobuyuki Nagasawa, Numazu, JP;
Tetsuya Hara, Numazu, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To provide a curtain coating apparatus including: a slit from which at least one layer of a coating liquid is ejected; a curtain edge guide configured to guide the ejected coating liquid in the form of a curtain liquid film and make the coating liquid fall freely, while pouring an auxiliary liquid from the whole of a surface provided in contact with the coating liquid in the curtain edge guide, so as to apply the coating liquid onto a continuously running web; and a claw which supports the curtain liquid film at a bottom of the curtain edge guide, wherein when a residue of the liquid is left on the claw, the claw is configured to move.