Coating apparatus

Abstract

A coating apparatus including: a first gripping unit configured to grip a leading end of a film; a first moving unit configured to be capable of moving the first gripping unit in a first direction in which the film is conveyed above a work to be coated and a second direction opposite to the first direction; and a displacement unit configured to displace the first gripping unit and the work to be coated relative to each other such that the film comes into contact with the work to be coated, wherein after the film and the work to be coated start to come into contact, before full contact is made, the first gripping unit moves in the second direction.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.