Abstract: A head unit 103 for use in a droplet ejection apparatus is provided with a plurality of droplet ejection heads for ejecting some kinds of liquid materials each having 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 some kinds of liquid materials are 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 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 invention provides a method enabling a display material including display elements introduced into divided regions with partition walls to be reclaimed, and a method for manufacturing a display using the method. The color filter substrate is immersed in a developer in the step for reclaiming the base. Alkali can be used as the developer that is capable of being used in the development process for forming the partition walls. The developer is not required to be the actual developer that is used for forming the partition walls. Vibration or stress is applied to the filter element as a display element using an ultrasonic cleaning bath in the step for immersing the base in the developer, and the filter element as a display element is peeled off. The base is washed with water thereafter, followed by drying to return the base to the color filter substrate forming step.

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 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 ? 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: 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: 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 substrate has a base, a first bank for partitioning off a plurality of display dots on the base, a reflective film partially provided on the base such that a reflective portion and a transmissive portion are formed in each of the display dots, a second bank provided between the reflective portion and the transmissive portion, and coloring elements provided in areas divided by the first bank and second bank. The coloring elements that are disposed in the reflective portion and the transmissive portion of one display dot have the same color but different light transmittance rates and thicknesses. With this invention, coloring elements and other elements of the color filter substrate can be set to have different attributes in the reflective portion and the transmissive portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a color filer substrate in which color pixels of a plurality of colors are formed in the predetermined regions delimited by a bank-like delimiting member on the surface of a base member, and protective layer is formed on the color pixels, the surface of the protective layer is modified so as to have excellent flatness. The color filter substrate can include a bank-like delimiting member having a predetermined height formed on a base member so as to delimit color-pixel-forming regions on a surface of the base member, color pixels formed in the color-pixel-forming regions by arranging liquid color pixel materials, and a protective layer formed on the surfaces of the color pixels by arranging a liquid protective layer material. The delimiting member can be composed of a resin having repellency to the color pixel material and the protective layer material.

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: An electro-optical device 101 is provided with an electro-optical panel 102 in which a liquid crystal material L is held between a pair of opposed electrodes 114a and 114b, and a dot is formed in each of regions where the pair of opposed electrodes 114a and 114b is opposed to each other, and with a light source 106 for irradiating the electro-optical panel 102 with light. The device further comprises a transflective film 112 having a light-transmitting region 113 provided for each of the dots to transmit light from the light source 106 and a light-reflecting region for reflecting the external light, a colored layer 118 provided corresponding to the dots, and a colored layer 121 provided opposite to the colored layer 118 with the liquid crystal material L held therebetween corresponding to the light-transmitting region 113.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transflective liquid crystal device in which color display can be made uniform over the display surface in both the reflective display mode and the transmissive display mode. The liquid crystal device can include a pair of substrates which sandwich liquid crystal, a light reflecting film formed on the substrate, and a color filter formed on the light reflecting film. The color filter can include a partitioning member, which divides the surface of the substrate into a plurality of sections, and subpixels which are individually formed in the sections. The light reflecting film is provided with openings formed at regions corresponding to the thickest parts of the subpixels, openings formed at regions corresponding to central parts of the section, openings which extend in longitudinal direction of the rectangular sections, or openings formed in the shape corresponding to the thickness distribution of the subpixels.

Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a color filter substrate capable of preventing foreign substances from being attached to a base member. The method includes a step of discharging a liquid filter material from an inkjet head nozzle included in a recording head to the base member as liquid drops. In the discharging step, the liquid drops are discharged in a state where the base member is substantially vertically arranged. A color filter substrate manufacturing apparatus is preferably provided in a clean room that is maintained clean by an air current that flows from the top of the room to the bottom.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a color filter substrate is provided. The method includes a step of forming banks, by which a plurality of display dot regions are formed on a base member, and a step of discharging a liquid filter material from nozzles to the plurality of display dot regions as liquid drops. In the step of discharging the material, the centers of the liquid drops of the filter material are situated within a distance which amounts to about 30% of the distance between the center of the display dot region and the edge of the display dot region closest to the center thereof. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the discharged liquid drops from invading adjacent display dot regions over the banks.

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. First, the nozzle row is moved to positions “a” and “b” by main scanning in the X direction to enhance wettability of the surface of the areas and then main scanning is executed at each of the positions while successively moving the nozzle row to positions “c” through “k” by sub-scanning, thereby repeatedly discharging ink in the same portion of the areas.

Abstract: The invention provides a system and methods for manufacturing an optical member, such as a color filter, using a scanning ink-jet head, where all nozzles of the ink-jet head precisely scan formation regions of pixels. In accordance with the invention, the accuracy of discharge position of ink from each nozzle is increased, the utilization of the nozzle (printing efficiency) is heightened, variations in color from pixel to pixel are controlled, and optical characteristics of an optical member is thus made uniform in plan view. In the method for manufacturing a color filter, a plurality ink-jet heads 22, each head having a plurality of nozzles 27, performs a main scan and a sub scan.

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: 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 is provided which is low cost, has excellent flatness of the over coat layer, and has reduced thickness and excellent light transmittance. The color filter is a filter in which a plurality of colored sections are formed on a substrate, which color filter if made by a method wherein a plurality of concave sections are formed on one surface of the substrate, an ink repellant layer is formed between adjacent concave sections, formation sections are formed comprising the concave sections and the ink repellant layer, and colored sections are then formed in each formation section.

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.