Abstract: A head unit 103 for use in a droplet ejection apparatus is provided with a plurality of droplet ejection heads for ejecting one or more kind of liquid material of a predetermined color onto a base in the form of droplets. Each of the droplet ejection heads includes at least one nozzle array constituted from a plurality of nozzles linearly aligned. The liquid material is adapted to be ejected through the plurality of nozzles of the plurality of droplet ejection heads in the form of droplets. The plurality of droplet ejection heads include at least two sets of two adjacent droplet ejection heads which are arranged in a consecutive manner in a first direction parallel to each of the nozzle arrays.

Abstract: A forming method for a predetermined pattern, includes: measuring the radius of a droplet when the droplet is dropped onto a bank uprightly formed on a substrate; defining a target drop region of the droplet relative to a droplet disposition region delimited by the bank, based on the radius of the droplet; ejecting the droplet from a droplet ejecting section onto the target drop region; and forming the predetermined pattern onto the droplet disposition region.

Abstract: A head unit for use in a droplet ejection apparatus is provided with a plurality of droplet ejection heads for ejecting liquid material of a predetermined color onto a base as droplets. In each of the droplet ejection heads, first and second nozzle arrays are arranged in a side by side relation in a second direction and nozzles of the first nozzle array are shifted with a half pitch in a first direction perpendicular to the second direction with respect to the nozzles of the second nozzle array when viewed from the second direction. The nozzles of the first and second nozzle arrays of the first and second droplet ejection heads of the first set are arranged so as not to overlap with the nozzles of the first and second nozzle arrays of the third and fourth droplet ejection heads of the second set when viewed from the second direction.

Abstract: The invention enables color characteristics to always be enhanced in both reflection mode display and transmission mode display in the transreflective type liquid crystal device. The present invention provides a liquid crystal device including a color filter formed on one substrate of a pair of substrates with interposition of a liquid crystal. The color filter includes a dividing material 14 to divide the surface of the substrate into plural regions, a reflection layer formed in each region, a color pixel and a protective layer formed on the reflection layer. The thickness of the reflection layer is significantly different within the divided region, and a high transmission region having a transmittance of 50% or less is formed in the reflection layer formed to be thinner than the reference thickness.

Abstract: A device and a method are provided to form a film by discharging a liquid material with a liquid discharge head or the like, such as an ink jet head, and which can reduce the unevenness resulting from variation of the amount of the discharged liquid material. To provide a device and a method to form a film by discharging a liquid material and which can increase process efficiency while suppressing the increase of costs, even if the liquid material is discharged onto various objects. When a color filter is manufactured, nozzles of a liquid discharge head discharge filter element materials onto filter-element-forming regions. In this instance, one color of the filter element materials is discharged while the liquid discharge head is swept in the longitudinal direction of a mother substrate. The other colors are discharged while the liquid discharge head is swept in the width direction of the mother substrate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a color filter substrate that can include color filters 12, which are formed in at least a display region and each of which are composed of colored portions, and a light shielding layer on a substrate main body. The light shielding layer can be formed on the approximately entire surface of a color filter non-forming region, in addition to the display region. Further, the colored portions can be formed by an inkjet method, and the color filter substrate can further include a resin member for partitioning pixels for forming the respective colored portions, and the resin member can be formed on the approximately entire surface of the color filter non-forming region, in addition to along the peripheries of the respective colored portions.

Abstract: The present invention provides a color filter substrate that can include color filters 12, which are formed in at least a display region and each of which are composed of colored portions, and a light shielding layer on a substrate main body. The light shielding layer can be formed on the approximately entire surface of a color filter non-forming region, in addition to the display region. Further, the colored portions can be formed by an inkjet method, and the color filter substrate can further include a resin member for partitioning pixels for forming the respective colored portions, and the resin member can be formed on the approximately entire surface of the color filter non-forming region, in addition to along the peripheries of the respective colored portions.

Abstract: The invention enables color characteristics to always be enhanced in both reflection mode display and transmission mode display in the transreflective type liquid crystal device. The present invention provides a liquid crystal device including a color filter formed on one substrate of a pair of substrates with interposition of a liquid crystal. The color filter includes a dividing material 14 to divide the surface of the substrate into plural regions, a reflection layer formed in each region, a color pixel and a protective layer formed on the reflection layer. The thickness of the reflection layer is significantly different within the divided region, and a high transmission region having a transmittance of 50% or less is formed in the reflection layer formed to be thinner than the reference thickness.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a color filter having a picture element part surrounded by a partition wall and provided in the plural number on a substrate including a step of forming the partition wall that has a lyophobic quality on the substrate, step of forming a lyophilic layer in the picture element part by applying a lyophilic liquid that develops the lyophobic quality to a substantially whole surface of the substrate on which the partition wall is formed all at once and a step of applying a droplet of colorant to the picture element part in which the lyophilic layer is formed.

Abstract: The invention enables color characteristics to always be enhanced in both reflection mode display and transmission mode display in the transreflective type liquid crystal device. The present invention provides a liquid crystal device including a color filter formed on one substrate of a pair of substrates with interposition of a liquid crystal. The color filter includes a dividing material 14 to divide the surface of the substrate into plural regions, a reflection layer formed in each region, a color pixel and a protective layer formed on the reflection layer. The thickness of the reflection layer is significantly different within the divided region, and a high transmission region having a transmittance of 50% or less is formed in the reflection layer formed to be thinner than the reference thickness.

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 ?.

Abstract: A droplet discharge method for discharging a liquid material from a discharge device and arranging the liquid material in a specified quantity on a substrate, the discharge device includes a nozzle for discharging the liquid material in droplets, and the droplet discharge method include the steps of cleaning the nozzle using the liquid material, and arranging at least a part of the liquid material used for cleaning on the substrate.

Abstract: The invention makes it possible to adjust the color appearance for each display unit, e.g., each dot, in a color display obtained by using a color filter. A color filter includes a plurality of dot-shaped color films provided on a substrate. At least one of the dot-shaped color films includes a first film and a second film having different color properties, the second film being deposited on the first film. The thickness ratio of the first film to the second film changes within one dot-shaped color film. Alternatively, a first film and a second film may be formed so as to be adjacent to each other in one dot-shaped color film and in such a way that the first film and the second film have different color properties.

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 ?.

Abstract: In a method and apparatus for jetting a liquid from a nozzle of a droplet jet head and applying it to a substrate, a jet amount of the liquid to any one of at least two divided regions of a coating region of the substrate is controlled to be greater than a jet amount to the other divided regions. A spin coater can be used to rotate the substrate. To divide the coating region of the substrate, the substrate can be divided into at least an inside circumferential region and an outside circumferential region positioned at predetermined distances from the center of rotation of the substrate. In this case, the jet amount to the outside region is greater than the jet amount to the inside region.

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: A color filter having a colored portion placed in each of a plurality of areas on a substrate, wherein the plurality of areas each have a light reflecting areas in which light entering the colored portion is reflected, and a light transmitting areas through which light entering the colored portion passes, and the light transmitting areas includes a recessed portions for adjusting an optical path length in the colored portion.

Abstract: A head unit 103 for use in a droplet ejection apparatus is provided with a plurality of droplet ejection heads for ejecting one or more kind of liquid material of a predetermined color onto a base in the form of droplets. Each of the droplet ejection heads includes at least one nozzle array constituted from a plurality of nozzles linearly aligned. The liquid material is adapted to be ejected through the plurality of nozzles of the plurality of droplet ejection heads in the form of droplets. The plurality of droplet ejection heads include at least two sets of two adjacent droplet ejection heads which are arranged in a consecutive manner in a first direction parallel to each of the nozzle arrays.

Abstract: A droplet ejection apparatus for supplying one or more kind of liquid material of a predetermined color onto a base in the form of droplets includes: a head unit 103 provided with a plurality of droplet ejection heads for ejecting the droplets of the one or more kind of liquid material onto the base, each of the droplet ejection heads including at least one nozzle array constituted from a plurality of nozzles linearly aligned, the nozzle arrays of the plurality of droplet ejection heads being parallel to each other in a first direction, the liquid material being adapted to be ejected through the plurality of nozzles in the form of droplets; a stage including two major surfaces, one of the two major surfaces of the stage facing the plurality of droplet ejection heads of the head unit 103, and the base being supported on the one major surface of the stage; a moving mechanism for mutually moving the stage with respect to the head unit 103; and a control unit for controlling operation of the head unit 103 and the

Abstract: A head unit 103 for use in a droplet ejection apparatus is provided with a plurality of droplet ejection heads for ejecting one or more kind of liquid material of a predetermined color onto a base in the form of droplets. Each of the droplet ejection heads includes at least one nozzle array constituted from a plurality of nozzles linearly aligned. The liquid material is adapted to be ejected through the plurality of nozzles of the plurality of droplet ejection heads in the form of droplets. The plurality of droplet ejection heads for ejecting the liquid material of the same color are arranged so that the nozzle arrays of the plurality of droplet ejection heads are parallel to each other in a first direction and each of the plurality of droplet ejection heads partially overlaps at least one of the other droplet ejection heads when viewed from a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.