Spin-coating device

• US 5,766,354 A
• Filed: 12/12/1996
• Issued: 06/16/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Display Products Corporation (Pioneer Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Electronic Corporation (Pioneer Corporation), Pioneer Video Corporation (Pioneer Corporation)
• Inventors: Kosaka, Hiroyuki, Nagata, Kazuhiko, Kuriyama, Kazumi, Kitta, Goroku, Ohmori, Kazunori
• Primary Examiner(s): Edwards, Laura
• Assistant Examiner(s): PADGETT, CALVIN F
• Application Number:
  US08/766,591
• Time in Patent Office: 551 Days
• Field of Search: 118/52, 118/319, 118/320, 134/902, 134/153, 269/21, 427/240, 438/782, 438/758, 15/302
• US Class Current: 118/319
• CPC Class Codes: B05C 11/08 Spreading liquid or other fluent material by manipulating the work, e.g. tilting
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/26 Apparatus or processes specially adapted for the manufacture of record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/261 Preparing a master, e.g. exposing photoresist, electroforming

Abstract

A spin-coating device comprises; a turntable for concentrically supporting a substrate; a spindle motor for rotating the turntable about a central axis thereof and connected via a rotating shaft thereto; a supply mechanism for feeding and dripping a fluid coating material onto the substrate; and a holding mechanism for maintaining that the central axis of rotation of the turntable carrying the substrate is placed to be inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to a gravitational direction while the fluid coating material is dripped onto the rotating substrate.

Claims

1. A spin-coating device comprising:

a turntable for concentrically supporting a substrate;

a spindle motor having a rotating shaft connected to the turntable at a center thereof for rotating the turntable about a central axis thereof;

a nozzle disposed above the turntable for feeding and dripping a fluid coating material onto the substrate at a portion adjacent to said central axis of the rotating substrate; and

an operation means onto which the spindle motor is securely attached, the operation means being configured to maintain an inclination of the central axis of rotation of the turntable carrying the substrate at a slant angle with respect to a gravitational direction while the fluid coating material is dripped onto the rotating substrate.

2. A spin-coating device according to claim 1, wherein said substrate does not have any central hole in a portion onto which the fluid coating material is dripped, and said spin-coating device further comprises a vacuum-absorption means for absorbing air through holes formed on the turntable to form a vacuum between the substrate and the turntable whereby said substrate is fixed to said turntable during the rotation.

3. A spin-coating device according to claim 2 wherein said operation means comprises an operation plate having a gear plate of a half circle which is engaged with a small gear having a radius smaller than that of the gear plate for adjusting the slant angle.

4. A spin-coating device according to claim wherein said operation means comprises an operation plate having a gear plate of a half circle which is engaged with a small gear having a radius smaller than that of the gear plate for adjusting the slant angle.