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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2013
Enki Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Brenor L. Brophy, San Jose, CA (US);
Sina Maghsoodi, San Jose, CA (US);
Patrick J. Neyman, San Jose, CA (US);
Peter R. Gonsalves, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jeffrey G. Hirsch, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yu S. Yang, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Enki Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are coating apparatus including flow coating and roll-coating that may be used for uniform sol-gel coating of substrates such as glass, solar panels, windows or part of an electronic display. Also disclosed are methods for substrate preparation, flow coating and roll coating. Lastly systems and methods for skin curing sol-gel coatings deposited onto the surface of glass substrates using a high temperature air-knife are disclosed.