Patent ID: 8627781

Claim:
A coating apparatus comprising multiple coating dies for coating a coating solution on an object to be coated, wherein each of the coating dies comprises: a main body comprising a discharge opening for discharging the coating solution upwardly; a recovery container for recovering the coating solution flowed down from the discharge opening; a flow passage formed integrally with the main body, guiding the coating solution to the recovery container; and an elevator device for moving the main body in an upper-lower direction so as to fine adjust a distance between the discharge opening of the main body and the object to be coated, wherein the flow passage comprises: a groove having a bottom, formed around the discharge opening, inclined toward a predetermined position; and a shoot having a bottom, formed continuously from the groove, discharging the coating solution guided along the groove to outside of the groove, and wherein the coating apparatus further comprises: a conveyor for conveying the object to be coated continuously with a surface thereof facing to the discharge openings of the coating dies; and a supporter for supporting the coating dies movable separately from each other in a direction perpendicular to the upper-lower direction within a state where each of the coating dies faces to the surface of the object to be coated and a state where each of the coating dies is separated from the object to be coated.