Abstract: A method of producing a transmissive screen having a structure including light-absorption-material patterns formed on locations corresponding to locations of lens members, which are provided side by side on a light-transmissive substrate, and to locations of boundary portions between the corresponding lens members. In the method, lens compositions are discharged onto and are caused to land on the light transmissive substrate, and, by drops of the lens compositions, very small lens members or precursors thereof are formed. It is possible to provide a method of producing a transmissive screen, which makes it possible to realize at a low cost a bright transmissive screen which has high contrast ratio and which can display a high-quality image having no moiré and no speckles.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an organic EL element according to the present invention comprises the steps of forming pixel electrodes (801), (802), (803) on a transparent substrate (804) and forming on the pixel electrodes by patterning luminescent layers (806), (807), (808) made of an organic compound by means of an ink-jet method. According to this method, it is possible to carry out a high precise patterning easily and in a short time, thereby enabling to carry out optimization for a film design and luminescent characteristic easily as well as making it easy to adjust a luminous efficiency.

Abstract: A resin composition for producing a color filter by an ink jet system contains (A) a colorant, (B) a binder resin and (C) a solvent having a boiling point of 245° C. or more at normal pressure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system which shortens the scanning time with an ink jet head for forming a pattern of filter elements of a color filter, picture element pixels of an electroluminescence (EL) device, or the like. An apparatus for producing a color filter can include a plurality of filter elements arranged on a substrate. The apparatus can further include a plurality of heads each having a nozzle row having a plurality of nozzles arranged, an ink supply device for supplying a filter element material to the heads, a carriage supporting the heads arranged thereon, a main scanning driving device for moving the carriage by main scanning in the X direction, and a sub-scanning driving device for moving the carriage by sub-scanning in the Y direction. The carriage supports the plurality of heads each of which is inclined at an in-plane inclination angle &thgr;.

Abstract: A template (12) having a plurality of protrusions (13) in a predetermined arrangement is fabricated to facilitate the formation of ink filling concavities for forming a color pattern layer. An ink filling layer precursor (11) is attached to the template (12) and, after the ink filling layer precursor (11) has solidified to form an ink filling layer (14), the ink filling layer (14) having a plurality of ink filling concavities (15) is transfer-formed by separating the ink filling layer (14) from the template (12). Ink of previously determined colors are filled into these ink filling concavities (15) to form a color pattern layer (16).

Abstract: In order to provide a bright, colour, simple matrix-type electroluminescent element which can be manufactured by means of a simple process, banks 4 required for fabricating organic films head in an electroluminescent element by means of an ink-jet are formed such that they intersect orthogonally with anodes 6, and patterning of cathodes 1 is carried out using these banks. By means of this composition, cathode patterning becomes possible without increasing the number of processes. Therefore, it becomes possible to manufacture a full-colour simple matrix-type electroluminescent element, inexpensively.

Abstract: The invention makes uniform, in a plane, optical properties of optical members, such as the distribution properties of light transmission of a color filter, the color display properties of a liquid crystal device, and the light emission properties of an EL luminescent plane. During main scanning of color filter formation areas of a board in the X direction with an ink jet head having a nozzle row formed of a plurality of nozzles arranged in a row, a filter material is selectively discharged from the plurality of the nozzles to each of filer element areas arranged in a dot matrix to form filter elements, producing a color filter.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to improve patterning accuracy while maintaining low cost, high throughput and a high degree of freedom of an optical material in a matrix type display device and a manufacturing method thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for making a color filter having a plurality of filter elements aligned in a dot-matrix on a substrate. The method has a first-scanning step of moving the inkjet head having a nozzle line including a plurality of nozzles relative to the substrate while selectively discharging a filter material from the plurality of nozzles so as to form filter elements on filter element forming regions of the substrate and a second-scanning step of moving the inkjet head by a second-scanning distance &dgr; in a second-scanning direction. The plurality of nozzles are divided into a plurality of groups and the first-scanning step and the second-scanning step are repeated so that all the nozzle groups scan the same section of the substrate.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of an active matrix substrate which can prevent the complexity of manufacturing processes, widens the range of material choice and allows high manufacturing yield, and a manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display using such active matrix substrate. Conductive colored layers (606 to 608) functioning as pixel electrodes and color filters are formed by a process of discharging, by an ink jet method, a mixed ink of coloring material and conductive material to the formation area of a pixel electrode to be connected electrically to an active element (602).

Abstract: In order to provide a bright, color, simple matrix-type electroluminescent element which can be manufactured by means of a simple process, banks 4 required for fabricating organic films head in an electroluminescent element by means of an ink-jet are formed such that they intersect orthogonally with anodes 6, and patterning of cathodes 1 is carried out using these banks. By means of this composition, cathode patterning becomes possible without increasing the number of processes. Therefore, it becomes possible to manufacture a full-color simple matrix-type electroluminescent element, inexpensively.

Abstract: An ink jet printing device and a manufacturing method of a functional liquid applied substrate, which can equalize the discharge amount of the functional liquid with simple operations and structures. An ink jet printing device (100) comprises a plurality of nozzles (111) for discharging the functional liquid and the plurality of nozzles are divided into a plurality of groups, the number of the groups being less than the number of the nozzles, and the discharge amount of the functional liquid discharged from the nozzles is controlled in every group. A manner of grouping of the nozzles is performed such that a part of an ink jet head (1a), onto which the nozzles are located, is divided into a plurality of areas and those nozzles belonging to each area belong to one group.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an organic EL element according to the present invention comprises the steps of forming pixel electrodes (801), (802), (803) on a transparent substrate (804) and forming on the pixel electrodes by patterning luminescent layers (806), (807), (808) made of an organic compound by means of an ink-jet method. According to this method, it is possible to carry out a high precise patterning easily and in a short time, thereby enabling to carry out optimization for a film design and luminescent characteristic easily as well as making it easy to adjust a luminous efficiency.

Abstract: A display apparatus provides a reduction in the off current of a switching thin-film transistor and an increase in the on current of a current thin-film transistor in a current-drive thin-film transistor display apparatus. The switching thin-film transistor is formed as a transistor of LDD structure or offset structure while the current thin-film transistor is formed as a transistor of self-alignment structure. Alternatively, each of the switching thin-film transistor and the current thin-film transistor is formed as a transistor of LDD structure or offset structure, and the LDD length or offset length of the switching thin-film transistor is increased relative to that of the current thin-film transistor.

Abstract: A template (12) having a plurality of protrusions (13) in a predetermined arrangement is fabricated to facilitate the formation of ink filling concavities for forming a color pattern layer. An ink filling layer precursor (11) is attached to the template (12) and, after the ink filling layer precursor (11) has solidified to form an ink filling layer (14), the ink filling layer (14) having a plurality of ink filling concavities (15) is transfer-formed by separating the ink filling layer (14) from the template (12). Ink of previously determined colors are filled into these ink filling concavities (15) to form a color pattern layer (16).

Abstract: A template (12) having a plurality of protrusions (13) in a predetermined arrangement is fabricated to facilitate the formation of ink filling concavities for forming a color pattern layer. An ink filling layer precursor (11) is attached to the template (12) and, after the ink filling layer precursor (11) has solidified to form an ink filling layer (14), the ink filling layer (14) having a plurality of ink filling concavities (15) is transfer-formed by separating the ink filling layer (14) from the template (12). Ink of previously determined colors are filled into these ink filling concavities (15) to form a color pattern layer (16).

Abstract: A electromagnetic wave generating composite capable of attaining modification of water and activation of a living thing, being simply inexpensively manufactured irrespective of any form thereof, and being effectively directed to a variety of fields such as medical applications, agricultural applications and the like. The composite is constituted by a combination of a semiconductor and a magnet.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an organic EL element according to the present invention comprises the steps of forming pixel electrodes (801), (802), (803) on a transparent substrate (804) and forming on the pixel electrodes by patterning luminescent layers (806), (807), (808) made of an organic compound by means of an ink-jet method. According to this method, it is possible to carry out a high precise patterning easily and in a short time, thereby enabling to carry out optimization for a film design and luminescent characteristic easily as well as making it easy to adjust a luminous efficiency.

Abstract: An object is to effect high quality printing of images such as photographs, designs, and the like, without using special paper. A printing apparatus includes a mechanism for supplying a recording medium that includes a recording medium surface, a mechanism for coating a surface modifier on a surface modification area of the recording medium surface, and a mechanism for drying the surface modifier coated on the surface modification area. The printing information to be printed on the recording medium surfaces includes image information. The mechanism for coating the surface modifier determines an area of the recording medium corresponding to the image information as the surface modification area. An image can be printed on the surface modification area with high quality. The present printing apparatus and method makes possible high quality printing with regular paper, without using expensive special paper, as before.

Abstract: The object is to make a color filter smoothly. It includes a step of causing a discharge in a gas atmosphere including oxygen at atmospheric pressure and treating a substrate (10) by means of the activated species; and a step of injecting ink of predetermined color in ink filling concavities (29) in a predetermined layout formed on a template (13) to form a color pattern layer (14), next adhering the substrate (10) to the template (13) having the color pattern layer (14) formed thereon with a resin layer (15) interposed therebetween, and then separating the color pattern layer (14), resin layer (15), and substrate (10) as one from the template (13).