Coating film production method, coating film production apparatus, coating film, nonaqueous secondary battery electrode plate, and mobile body

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10022743-B2
Application number	US-201514788789-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 1, 2015
Priority date	Sep 18, 2014
Publication date	Jul 17, 2018
Grant date	Jul 17, 2018

Abstract

When a coating material is rolled between rolls to generate a a coating film, and the coating film is transferred onto the coating object, at first, a residual coating material layer based on a residual coating material is formed on each of the surfaces of the rolls, and supply of the coating material and transfer of the coating film are carried out in a state where the residual coating material layer is retained on each of the surfaces of the rolls, thereby suppressing abrasions between the rolls and the coating material.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A coating film production method, comprising:
allowing a coating material to penetrate into a gap between a first roll and a second roll that rotates in an opposite direction to the first roll, to generate a coating film on a surface of the second roll; and
transferring the coating film generated on the surface of the second roll onto a running coating object,
wherein arithmetic mean roughnesses Ra of the surfaces of the first roll and the second roll satisfy 0.05×D 10 <Ra<50×D 90 ,
wherein D 10 is a particle diameter where a cumulative distribution rate of coating particles included in the coating material is 10%, and D 90 is a particle diameter where the cumulative distribution rate is 90%,
a portion of the coating material penetrated into the gap between the first roll and the second roll is transferred onto the second roll,
a portion of the coating film generated on the surface of the second roll is transferred onto the coating object,
a residual coating material excluding the portion of the coating material is generated on each of an entire circumferential surface of the first roll and the second roll as a residual coating material layer, and
a film thickness of the residual coating material layer is smaller than that of the coating film transferred onto the coating object.

2. The coating film production method according to claim 1 , the method comprising:
a first step of rolling, by a shearing force, the coating material penetrated into the gap between the first roll and the second roll, in a state where each of the entire circumferential surface of the first roll and the second roll are each covered with a residual coating material layer;
a second step of transferring the coating film onto a top of the residual coating material layer of the second roll while allowing the residual coating material layer to remain on the surface of the first roll;
a third step of transferring the coating material on the surface of the second roll onto the running coating object; and
causing the coating material that has not been transferred onto the coating object in the third step and remained on the second roll to be a residual coating material layer and rotating the second roll toward the gap.

3. The coating film production method according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the residual coating material layer is 1 to 10 times or less as large as a mean particle diameter of coating particles included in the coating material.

4. The coating film production method according to claim 1 , wherein the supplied coating material has a volume solvent content of 20 vol % or more to 62 vol % or less.

5. The coating film production method according to claim 1 , wherein the coating object is supplied by a third roll, the coating film is transferred onto the coating object between the second roll and the third roll, a ratio of a circumferential speed of the second roll/a circumferential speed of the first roll is adjusted to be larger than 1 to 30 or less, and a ratio of a circumferential speed of the third roll/the circumferential speed of the second roll is adjusted to 1 or more to 30 or less.

6. The coating film production method according to claim 5 , wherein θ(1)≥θ(2)>θ(3) where θ(1) is a surface contact angle between the first roll and a solvent for the coating material, θ(2) is a surface contact angle between the second roll and the solvent for the coating material, and θ(3) is a surface contact angle between the third roll and a solvent for the coating material in the form of the coating film that is transferred onto the coating object.

7. The coating film production method according to claim 6 , wherein 150° >θ(1) and θ(3)>3° .

8. A coating film production apparatus that transfers a coating material including coating particles onto a top of a coating object to coat the coating material thereon, the apparatus comprising:
a first roll and a second roll that roll the supplied coating material to generate the coating material in the form of a coating film;
and
a residual coating material layer that remains on each of an entire circumferential surface of the first roll and the second roll, wherein
arithmetic mean roughnesses Ra of the surfaces of the first roll and the second roll satisfy 0.05×D10<Ra<50×D90, in a case where D10 is a particle diameter where a cumulative distribution rate of the coating particles included in the coating material, which is measured by a particle size analyzer, is 10%, and D90 is a particle diameter where the cumulative distribution rate is 90%,
the coating material is supplied from a gap between the top of the residual coating material layer that has remained on the surface of the first roll and the top of the residual coating material layer that has remained on the surface of the second roll,
a portion of the coating material penetrated into a gap between the first roll and the second roll is transferred onto the second roll,
a portion of the coating material generated on the second roll is transferred onto the coating object,
a residual coating material excluding the portion of the coating material is generated on each of the entire circumferential surface of the first roll and the second roll as the residual coating material layer, and
a film thickness of the residual coating material layer is smaller than that of a coating film transferred onto the coating object.

9. The coating film production apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein a thickness of the residual coating material layer is 1 to 10 times or less as large as a mean particle diameter of the coating particles included in the coating material.

10. The coating film production apparatus according to claim 8 , further comprising:
a third roll that supplies the coating object,
wherein θ(1)≥θ(2)>θ(3) where θ(1) is a contact angle between the first roll and a solvent for the coating material, θ(2) is a contact angle between the second roll and the solvent for the coating material, and θ(3) is a contact angle between the third roll and a solvent for the coating material in the form of the coating film.

11. The coating film production apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein 150° >θ(1) and θ(3)>3° .

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Mikami Masateru
• Hamabe Masashi
• Kuromiya Takao

Classifications

• B05C1/083

  being passed between the coating roller and one or more backing rollers · CPC title

• B05D1/28

  performed by transfer from the surfaces of elements carrying the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. brushes, pads, rollers · CPC title

• B05C1/0804

  the material being applied without contact with the roller · CPC title

• B05C1/0834 Primary

  the coating roller co-operating with other rollers, e.g. dosing, transfer rollers · CPC title

• B05D1/26

  performed by applying the liquid or other fluent material from an outlet device in contact with, or almost in contact with, the surface · CPC title