Abstract: A pattern forming system including a feeding reel for feeding a tape form substrate that is wound up, a winding reel for winding up the tape form substrate that is fed up, and a droplet discharge apparatus for discharging a droplet onto the tape form substrate, between the feeding reel and the winding reel, to form a pattern, wherein the droplet discharge apparatus includes a table that can move while sucking the tape form substrate, with a slack mechanism for the tape form substrate being placed on the both ends of the table in the longitudinal direction of the tape form substrate.

Abstract: A functional film fabrication method for fabricating a functional film on a base having a flat surface includes an installation step and an application step. In the installation step, a base is installed so that the flat surface is on top, and a droplet discharge head with a plurality of nozzles aligned in a first direction is arranged above the flat surface. In the application step, a functional film is fabricated on the flat surface by repeating a discharge step and a nozzle movement step. In the discharge step, droplets of a functional liquid are discharged from the nozzles onto the base. In the nozzle movement step, the nozzles are moved relative to the base in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction over a distance shorter than the distance between the nozzles in the first direction.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display device enables decreasing the fraction defective of a liquid crystal panel upon manufacturing the liquid crystal display device using the liquid crystal dropping model in a large-sized board. The manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display device includes a preliminary liquid crystal coating process, a film thickness measurement process, a liquid crystal discharge condition calculation process, and a liquid crystal coating process. The preliminary liquid crystal coating process scans a plurality of the cell forming areas of the sample board with a droplet discharge head in a predetermined scanning direction, and coats the liquid crystal with a predetermined discharge condition. The film thickness measurement process respectively measures the film thickness of the liquid crystal coated onto the plurality of the cell forming areas.

Abstract: In a method of forming a wiring pattern, a plurality of electrical wirings deposited to be multilayered are conductively connected to one another through a conducting post. The method has forming the electrical wiring by discharging a first droplet including a material for forming the electrical wiring, and forming the conducting post by discharging a second droplet including a material for forming the conducting post, wherein a volume of the second droplet is greater than a volume of the first droplet.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention provide a manufacturing method enabling a fine layer pattern to form it precisely and stably. An exemplary method for manufacturing a layer pattern can include a step (a) of forming a region defined by a first layer and a second layer on a substrate and a step (b) of ejecting a liquid like material to the region from an ejecting part of an ejecting device. Here, the first layer can be formed on the substrate and the second layer can be located on the first layer. A lyophobicity of the first layer to the liquid like material is lower than the lyophobicity of the second layer to the liquid like material.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wiring board includes steps of: providing a substrate; forming a first wiring layer on the substrate by photolithography; forming a first insulating layer by ink jetting so as to cover a part of the first wiring layer and expose an exposed section of the first wiring layer; and forming a second wiring layer by ink jetting partly over the first wiring layer, with the first insulating layer being between the part of the first wiring layer and a part of the second wiring layer. A wider variety of conductive material and insulating material can be used for forming the wiring layers and the insulating layers on the substrate by ink jetting, while the wiring board has a first wiring layer having high density.

Abstract: To provide a thin-film forming device and a thin-film forming method, a liquid crystal display and a device and method for manufacturing the same, and a thin-film structure and a device and method for manufacturing the same, in which material losses are reduced by using a droplet ejection head, and in addition, the thickness of the entire film can be made uniform. The invention can include a thin-film forming device that is a device for forming a thin film by applying a coating solution onto a substrate, the coating solution containing a solvent and a film-forming material dissolved or dispersed therein. Also an ejection mechanism having a droplet ejection head for ejecting the coating solution onto the substrate, a moving mechanism capable of relatively moving the positions of the droplet ejection head and the substrate, and a control unit for controlling at least one of the ejection mechanism and the moving mechanism can be provided for the thin-film forming device.

Abstract: A wiring pattern formation method in which a wiring pattern is formed by arranging, in a region which is demarcated by a partition wall, liquid material which includes an electrically conductive material, including: arranging a resin material around the periphery of a region upon which the wiring pattern is to be formed; imparting liquid affinity to a demarcated region which has been demarcated by the resin material; narrowing down the demarcated region by flowing out the resin material towards and into the demarcated region; and forming the partition wall by curing the resin material.

Abstract: An applicator including a liquid discharge head for discharging a treatment liquid in droplet form, and a discharge control device for controlling the discharge of droplets from the liquid discharge head. The discharge control device divides a surface of a member into a plurality of regions according to the shape of the surface, and controls the application quantity for each region.

Abstract: In a manufacturing method of a color filter for display devices having a plurality of pixels on a substrate, each pixel comprises a reflective layer and a color layer, the method of manufacture comprises a step of forming partitions which separate each pixel area from the other pixel areas to comprise the pixel in each pixel area; a step of forming the reflective layer by discharging a first liquid material into each of the pixel areas by means of a droplet discharge method; and a step of forming the color layer within each of the pixel areas. By this method, color filters can be manufactured without requiring photolithography or other complicated processes, in a short time, using little energy, and at low cost.

Abstract: The invention provides a thin-film forming device, a thin-film forming method, a device for manufacturing a liquid crystal display, a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display, a device for manufacturing a thin-film structure, a method for a thin-film structure, a liquid crystal display, a thin-film structure, and an electronic apparatus, objects are to achieve easy control of thickness of a thin film without using rotation means, cost reduction, and miniaturization of the devices. The thin-film forming device for forming a thin film by applying a coating solution onto a substrate, there can be provided an ejection mechanism having a droplet ejection head for ejecting the coating solution onto the substrate, a moving mechanism capable of relatively moving the positions of the droplet ejection head and the substrate, and a control unit for controlling at least one of the ejection mechanism and the moving mechanism.

Abstract: An applicator including a liquid discharge head for discharging a treatment liquid in droplet form, and a discharge control device for controlling the discharge of droplets from the liquid discharge head. The discharge control device divides a surface of a member into a plurality of regions according to the shape of the surface, and controls the application quantity for each region.

Abstract: There is provided a multi-layered structure forming method comprising: (A) forming a first insulating material layer containing a first photo-curing material on a substrate; (B) semi-hardening the first insulating material layer by radiating light having a first wavelength to the first insulating material layer; (C) forming a conductive material layer on the semi-hardened first insulating material layer by ejecting droplets of a conductive material to the semi-hardened first insulating material layer from a nozzle of a liquid droplet ejecting apparatus; (D) forming a second insulating material layer containing a second photo-curing material so as to cover the semi-hardened first insulating material layer and the conductive material layer; and (E) forming a first insulating layer, a conductive layer positioned on the first insulating material, and a second insulating layer covering the first insulating layer and the conductive layer by simultaneously heating the first insulating material layer, the conductive

Abstract: There is provided a multi-layered structure forming method comprising: (A) forming a first insulating material layer containing a first photo-curing material on a substrate; (B) semi-hardening the first insulating material layer by radiating light having a first wavelength to the first insulating material layer; (C) forming a conductive material layer on the semi-hardened first insulating material layer by ejecting droplets of a conductive material to the semi-hardened first insulating material layer from a nozzle of a liquid droplet ejecting apparatus; (D) forming a second insulating material layer containing a second photo-curing material so as to cover the semi-hardened first insulating material layer and the conductive material layer; and (E) forming a first insulating layer, a conductive layer positioned on the first insulating material, and a second insulating layer covering the first insulating layer and the conductive layer by simultaneously heating the first insulating material layer, the conductive

Abstract: The invention provides a thin-film forming device, a thin-film forming method, a device for manufacturing a liquid crystal display, a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display, a device for manufacturing a thin-film structure, a method for a thin-film structure, a liquid crystal display, a thin-film structure, and an electronic apparatus, objects are to achieve easy control of thickness of a thin film without using rotation means, cost reduction, and miniaturization of the devices. The thin-film forming device for forming a thin film by applying a coating solution onto a substrate, there can be provided an ejection mechanism having a droplet ejection head for ejecting the coating solution onto the substrate, a moving mechanism capable of relatively moving the positions of the droplet ejection head and the substrate, and a control unit for controlling at least one of the ejection mechanism and the moving mechanism.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal device that is capable of controlling a wetting/spreading of a liquid crystal that is applied on and wets on a substrate. The invention can include a unit for ejecting liquid drops that applies a liquid crystal on a substrate, a multi-stage oven that preheats the substrate on which the liquid crystal is to be applied, and a cooling plate that cools down the substrate on which the liquid crystal has been applied are provided. Further, a first robot arm that automatically transfers the substrate to the unit for ejecting liquid drops from the multi-stage oven and a second robot arm that automatically transfers the substrate to the cooling plate from the unit for ejecting liquid drops can be provided.

Abstract: A method for forming a layer comprises (a) disposing a first droplet to two parts on an underlayer surface so as to form two dot patterns isolated each other on the underlayer surface, (b) fixing the two dot patterns to the underlayer surface, (c) giving lyophilicity with respect to a second droplet to at least the underlayer surface between the two dot patterns, and (d) disposing the second droplet to the underlayer surface between the two dot patterns so as to join the two dot patterns after the step (c).

Abstract: A wiring pattern formation method in which a wiring pattern is formed by arranging, in a region which is demarcated by a partition wall, liquid material which includes an electrically conductive material, including: arranging a resin material around the periphery of a region upon which the wiring pattern is to be formed; imparting liquid affinity to a demarcated region which has been demarcated by the resin material; narrowing down the demarcated region by flowing out the resin material towards and into the demarcated region; and forming the partition wall by curing the resin material.

Abstract: In a manufacturing method of a color filter for display devices having a plurality of pixels on a substrate, each pixel comprises a reflective layer and a color layer, the method of manufacture comprises a step of forming partitions which separate each pixel area from the other pixel areas to comprise the pixel in each pixel area; a step of forming the reflective layer by discharging a first liquid material into each of the pixel areas by means of a droplet discharge method; and a step of forming the color layer within each of the pixel areas. By this method, color filters can be manufactured without requiring photolithography or other complicated processes, in a short time, using little energy, and at low cost.

Abstract: A pattern forming system including a feeding reel for feeding a tape form substrate that is wound up, a winding reel for winding up the tape form substrate that is fed up, and a droplet discharge apparatus for discharging a droplet onto the tape form substrate, between the feeding reel and the winding reel, to form a pattern, wherein the droplet discharge apparatus includes a table that can move while sucking the tape form substrate, with a slack mechanism for the tape form substrate being placed on the both ends of the table in the longitudinal direction of the tape form substrate.