Blade coating method and apparatus

摘要

A blade coating method using a blade for coating a surface of a flat substrate with a coating liquid to form a coating layer on a to-be-coated surface of the flat substrate, the method comprising: the attaching step as defined herein; and the moving step as defined herein, wherein the quantity of the coating liquid remaining in the liquid reservoir on the upstream side of the blade is set to be in a range of from two times to five times as much as a quantity of the coating liquid to be applied on one sheet of the flat substrate with a stroke of the blade.