Patent ID: 7536954
Filing Date: 2009-05-26
Classification: B41F,B41P

Abstract:
1. A patterning method comprising: moving a printing nozzle to the inside of a chamber through a first inlet, and supplying a pattern material to a blanket adhered to a printing roller by the printing nozzle; moving the printing roller to the outside of the chamber through a second inlet; rotating the printing roller on a cliché plate that has a projection so as to transfer some pattern material onto the projection of the cliché plate, and so as to leave the remaining part of the pattern material as a predetermined form on the printing roller; rotating the printing roller on a substrate, to transfer the predetermined form of the pattern material to the substrate; moving the printing roller to the inside of the chamber, and drying the blanket of the printing roller; wherein the process for drying the blanket is performed in the cylinder; and controlling a pressure inside the chamber after drying the blanket of the printing roller.