Patent ID: 7501160
Filing Date: 2009-03-10
Classification: B05C,B28B

Abstract:
1. A method for coating an outer peripheral surface of a pillar structure using a coating apparatus, the method comprising: holding the pillar structure by a holding means of the coating apparatus, the holding means configured to hold the pillar structure in a nearly vertical direction and to rotate together with the held pillar structure on an axis of a substantially vertical direction as a common rotating axis; supplying and coating the outer peripheral surface of the pillar structure with a coating material from a supplying and coating means of the coating apparatus disposed at a given position with respect to the outer peripheral surface of the pillar structure, wherein: smoothing with a smoothing means of the coating apparatus a coating surface of the supplied and coated coating material between an upper side and a lower side of the outer peripheral surface and a longer side end portion of the smoothing means, the smoothing means having a length in a longer direction that is not shorter than the length between the upper and lower ends of the pillar structure and is disposed in a substantially vertical direction in a position to keep a given distance from the outer peripheral surface or from contacting the outer peripheral surface; wherein a uniform coating surface is formed on a whole outer peripheral surface of the pillar structure.