Method and apparatus for rubbing alignment films
AssigneeAu Optronics Corporation
InventorChiao Huang
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Abstract
A method for rubbing alignment films and an apparatus for processing the same are introduced. The method includes a step of providing a glass substrate coated by an alignment film and further having a visible region and an invisible region, a step of moving the glass substrate along a predetermined direction, and a step of rubbing the alignment film by an inversed roller with cloth on a surface thereof along an in-stream direction the same as the predetermined direction while the glass substrate is moving. By reverse rolling upon the alignment film, chips rubbed off the alignment film can be made not to hard contact with the alignment film on the visible region which has been rubbed by the cloth.
Claims6
A method for rubbing alignment films, comprising the steps of:
- providing a glass substrate having a visible region and an invisible region;
- coating at least one alignment film onto the glass substrate in a thickness of about 500 angstroms to about 1000 angstroms;
- conveying the glass substrate along a predetermined direction;
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- applying an inversed roller with cloth on a surface thereof to rub the at least one alignment film at an in-stream direction the same as the predetermined direction so as to make chips rubbed off the alignment film not to contact with the alignment film on the visible region which has been rubbed by the cloth.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.