Abstract: A boom structure deployed by inflating the structure to a desired shape and rigidizing the structure via an external influence. The structure frame has a series of frame members which are made of a fibrous material and a resin material. This frame is encased in between a pair of membrane layers, an inner membrane inflatable to move the frame into its desired shape and an outer membrane that allows for folding the structure. Following inflation of the inner layer, an external influence acts on the resin material to solidify it, and render the structure rigid. The external influence may also act on the resin material to soften it when it is already rigid, to allow for collapsing and folding of the structure.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a substrate useful as a color filter for LCD and having window-shaped coating films and a frame-shaped, functional coating film at the regions not occupied with the window-shaped coating films, which comprises the steps of:(a) forming a functional coating film on a transparent substrate having electrically conductive circuits on a surface thereof,(b) superposing a photomask having a predetermined pattern on the surface of the coating film formed in step (a), and exposing the thus masked coating film to light,(c) subjecting the intermediate product to developing to leave a frame-shaped coating film, and(d) subjecting the resulting substrate formed through steps (a) to (c) to electro-deposition to form electro-deposition coating films on the electrically conductive circuits, enables production of coating films of fine pattern with improved precision.