214results about "Photosensitive composition application" patented technology

A resist composition comprises a polymer comprising recurring units having formula (1) wherein R1, R4, R7, and R14 are H or methyl, R2, R3, R15, and R16 are H, alkyl or fluoroalkyl, R is F or H, R5 is alkylene, R6 is fluorinated alkyl, R8 is a single bond or alkylene, R10 and R11 are H, F, methyl or trifluoromethyl, R12 and R13 are a single bond, —O— or —CR18R19—, R9, R18, and R19 are H, F, methyl or trifluoromethyl, R17 is alkylene, X1, X2 and X3 are —C(═O)—O—, —O—, or —C(═O)—R20—C(═O)—O— wherein R20 is alkylene, 0≦(a-1)<1, 0≦(a-2)<1, 0≦(a-3)<1, 0<(a-1)+(a-2)+(a-3)<1, 0<b<1, and 0<(a-1)+(a-2)+(a-3)+b≦1.

Methods of forming structures including a photoresist underlayer and structures including the photoresist underlayer are disclosed. Exemplary methods include forming the photoresist underlayer using one or more of plasma-enhanced cyclic (e.g., atomic layer) deposition and plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. Surface properties of the photoresist underlayer can be manipulated using a treatment process.

To provide a photosensitive paste that permits pattern formation with a high aspect ratio and a high accuracy and to provide a plasma display including the photosensitive paste, by using a photosensitive paste that includes, as essential components, an inorganic particles and an organic component that contains a photosensitive compound with the difference between the average refractive index of the organic component and the average refractive index of the inorganic particles being 0.1 or less.

Disclosed herein is a multilayer silicone release surface comprising a backing, a support layer on the backing, and a silicone layer of the support layer. The various layers of the multilayer release surface are deposited substantially simultaneously, as for example by a dual die or using curtain coating techniques.

An apparatus and method for evaporating a coating solvent from a coating on a substrate and for minimizing the formation of mottle. The coating is heated with a first drying gas at no higher than a first heat transfer rate. The first heat transfer rate is created by a first heat transfer coefficient and a first temperature difference between the first coating temperature and the first drying gas temperature. The first heat transfer rate causes maximum evaporation of the coating solvent yet insignificant formation of mottle when the coating is at the first coating thickness and the first coating viscosity.

In a method and an apparatus for curtain coating of a moved substrate like a paper web substrate is moved below a liquid supply means providing a single or multilayer liquid coating in the form of a free-falling curtain impinging the substrate at a dynamic wetting line and a blade or air shield located upstream of the dynamic wetting line with respect to the moving direction of the substrate. The dynamic wetting line of the coating curtain on the substrate or web is oriented generally perpendicular to the moving direction of the substrate or web, providing substantially the same air pressure over an essential part of the coating curtain on its front and back side with respect to the moving direction of the substrate and providing a first supply air flow upstream to the wetting line. The supply air flows over a substantial length along the free-falling curtain and evacuates air from a location upstream of the supply air flow so that the air near the dynamic wetting line is moved against the moving direction of the substrate web and the boundary air layer entrained to the substrate. A second supply air is provided in proximity to the wetting line.

The present invention relates to an article comprising a substrate having thereon at least one antistatic layer, wherein said antistatic layer comprises at least one conductive material, and wherein said antistatic layer comprises areas of patterned coverage, and wherein said patterned coverage comprises a graphic design.

This invention relates to a method of coating multiple layers on a support comprising a) taking a support; b) simultaneously coating on said support a chill settable layer and a non-chill settable layer; c) lowering the temperature of the layers to immobilize said layers; and d) drying said layers. It further relates to imaging elements made by this process.

A resist curable resin material composed mainly of a curable prepolymer (for example, a photocurable resin material comprising a photosensitive prepolymer having an ethylenically unsaturated terminal group originating in an acrylic monomer (A), a compound having an ethylenically unsaturated group excluding the photosensitive prepolymer (B), and a photopolymerization initiator (C)) and a flame-retarding agent containing a hydrated metal compound and a brominated epoxy compound are mixed to produce a resist curable resin composition. Alternatively, the resist curable resin material described above and a hydrated metal compound surface-treated with a surface treating agent having an amphipathic property and a polarity are mixed to produce a resist curable resin composition.

An aspect of the present invention provides a method for drying a coating film that has been formed by applying a coating liquid to a traveling long support, by forming a tunnel-shaped drying zone so as to surround the support, and supplying drying air into the drying zone from a rectangular air-supplying nozzle which faces to the drying zone, wherein the air-supplying nozzle is designed so that among layer components of the drying air which is supplied from the air-supplying nozzle, a boundary layer component which has flowed in the vicinity of the inner wall surface of the air-supplying nozzle and is supplied from the nozzle cannot hit the surface of the coating film, while there are the boundary layer component and a central layer component which has flowed in a central part of the air-supplying nozzle and is supplied from the nozzle, in the layer components.

A curtain coating device for the coating of a moving substrate, comprising a nozzle device, for the generation of a curtain dropping onto the substrate, made up of at least one coating fluid and a curtain guide structure with a guide surface, which laterally guides the curtain, whereby the guide surface is convex to the curtain along a width exceeding the depth of the curtain when measured transversely. Additionally, a curtain coating method, whereby a curtain made up of at least one coating fluid is deposited on a moving substrate in free fall and guided on both sides by means of a convex guide surface transverse to the curtain.

A photosensitive material for forming a conductive film including a silver salt-containing emulsion layer, and a conductive layer containing conductive fibers, wherein the amount of the conductive fibers in the conductive layer is 0.005 g / m2 to 0.2 g / m2.

Disclosed is a positive or negative lithographic printing plate precursor which can form an image at high sensitivity by heating or heat developed by light-heat conversion, requires no development processing after image writing, has good sensitivity and excellent printing durability, is significantly improved in scumming resistance, and can directly make a plate by operating an infrared laser based on a digital signal, the precursor comprising a polymer compound having a functional group changeable in hydrophilicity by heat, acid or radiation and an under layer with which the polymer compound combined, wherein the polymer compound is a straight-chain polymer compound directly combined at an end of a polymer chain thereof with a surface of the under layer by chemical bonding, or comprises (i) a polymer backbone chemically combined with a surface of the under layer and (ii) a straight-chain polymer compound combined at an and of a polymer chain thereof with the polymer backbone and having a functional group changeable in hydrophilicity.

A method for producing a functional film having the steps of: (a) forming a coated layer with a coating solution onto a substrate, and (b) drying the coated layer while the substrate is conveyed in a floating state by blowing a gas to an uncoated surface of the substrate from a plurality of blowing outlets arranged along the direction of the conveyance of the substrate, wherein the conveyance apparatus features alternately squared notches and raised portions having the blowing outlets, and in a plurality of the adjacent raised portion and the squared notch, the gas is blown from the blowing outlets to make a difference of back pressure between the raised portion and the uncoated surface of the substrate and the back pressure between the squared notch adjacent to the raised portion and the uncoated surface of the substrate to be between 10-1,000 Pa.

A curtain coating apparatus for applying a coating solution to a continuously moving web, which comprises an air jet injector for injecting air in the upstream direction of a web, provided at a position upstream of a contact point of a curtain film with the web and a shielding member shutting off entrained air generated by movement of the web, provided between the contact point and the air jet injector, thereby diminating an influence of turbulent air flow and preventing the curtain film from suction toward the air jet injector, or which further comprises a control member connected to the shielding member, the control member being provided at a position near and in parallel to the web, or which further comprises a control member and a partition wall member, both being integrated with the shielding member to form a closed space, the air jet injector and an air suction means being provided in the closed space, thereby making the closed space a subatmospheric pressure zone, can produce coated products of good quality by eliminating entrained air around a web at a high speed coating to stabilize the curtain film.

Coating liquids are supplied to a coating hopper, and are extruded onto a slide surface of the coating hopper through slits. A pair of guide members are provided at both sides of the slide surface. Side faces of the guide members are positioned at both ends of a desired width of the coating liquids flowing of the slide surface to be applied on a traveling web. Consequently, the coating liquids that flow over the whole width of the slits are divided into the inside and the outside of the desired width by the guide members, and the divided coating liquids are extruded onto the slide surface. The coating liquids within the desired width flow down between the guide members and coat the web, whereas the coating liquids outside the desired width are collected through channels, which are formed in the guide members.

It is possible to give ultrathin and uniform coating on a flexible web in scraping-off type coating. The distribution of pressure in a web width direction is adjusted by a pressure distribution adjusting device when an excess of coating liquid excessively applied is scraped off by a doctor blade by giving relative pressure to a coating surface of a web and the doctor blade after applying the coating liquid that is more excessive than the desired quantity of the coating liquid on the web by a precoating apparatus while making the web continuously travel.

A radio communication receiver which includes an antenna array having at least two antennas to provide antenna diversity. The receiver is for receiving signals containing orthogonally coded data sub-streams derived from a source data stream. The receiver also has receiver circuitry, coupled to the antenna array, having a detection stage to detect the data sub-streams and a combiner stage for combining the detected data sub-streams to recover the source data stream. Each antenna has an electrically insulative core of solid material having a dielectric constant greater than 5. Each antenna also has a three-dimensional antenna element structure disposed on or adjacent the outer surface of the core.

The present invention provides a coating method for coating one or more layers on a surface of a continuously moving belt-like substrate. The method includes a cleaning step of maintaining a cleanliness level of class 1000 or less near the substrate before a coating step. According to the present invention, any adhesion of extraneous material, dirt, dust and the like to a continuously moving web or coating layer surface can be prevented to reduce coating defects such as streak development.

A coating apparatus includes support for supporting a mother substrate including unit substrates, a coater for coating the unit substrate with photosensitive materials, a detector for detecting foreign matters, a remover for removing the foreign matters from the unit substrate, and a controller for controlling the coater, detector, and remover. The coater includes a body containing the photosensitive materials, and inlet and outlet portions for inputting and outputting the photosensitive materials to / from the body. A width of the outlet portion is the same as that of the unit substrate. The detector is positioned at front of the coater to detect the foreign matters before the coating process. The remover removes the foreign matters. The coater discharges the photosensitive material only onto the unit substrate. Discharging of the photosensitive material is interrupted when the foreign matters are found. The coating apparatus requires less photosensitive material, and can be more efficient

A negative photosensitive resin composition comprising an alkali-soluble photosensitive resin (A) having acidic groups and having at least three ethylenic double bonds per molecule, an ink repellent (B) made of a polymer having polymerized units (b1) having a C20 or lower alkyl group in which at least one of its hydrogen atoms is substituted by a fluorine atom (provided that the alkyl group may contain etheric oxygen), and polymerized units (b2) having an ethylenic double bond, and a photopolymerization initiator (C), wherein the fluorine content in the ink repellent (B) is from 5 to 25 mass %, and the proportion of the ink repellent (B) is from 0.01 to 20 mass %, based on the total solid content of the negative photosensitive resin composition. The negative photosensitive resin composition of the present invention is excellent in adhesion to a substrate, ink repellency and durability thereof and further excellent in alkali solubility and developability.