Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090160890 | HEAD UNIT ARRANGEMENT METHOD, LIQUID DROPLET EJECTION APPARATUS, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE, AND ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICE - Provided herein is a head unit arrangement method for arranging a plurality of head units in a liquid droplet ejection device that plots an image in a matrix form with functional liquid droplets in a number n of colors by performing the number n of primary scans and a number (n−1) of secondary scans. The head unit arrangement method includes evaluating liquid droplet ejection performance of each of the head units based on an inspection result of a volume of liquid droplet ejection from each of the functional liquid droplet ejection heads to arrange two of the head units that exhibit the lowest liquid droplet ejection performance at both ends in the Y-axis direction. | 06-25-2009 |
20090201326 | METHOD FOR SETTING UP DRIVE SIGNAL - A method for setting up a condition for a drive signal in a liquid ejection head that includes a plurality of linearly-arranged nozzles and driving elements provided for each of the nozzles, includes: calculating an ejection rate for each nozzle relating to a supply of the drive signal under a predetermined condition by using a moving average; classifying the plurality of nozzles into a plurality of groups based on the ejection rate calculated by using the moving average of each nozzle; calculating a proper condition for the drive signal corresponding to each group based on a statistical value of the ejection rate relating to the group; and selecting one proper condition among proper conditions corresponding to the groups so as to set the selected proper condition for each nozzle. | 08-13-2009 |
20090207201 | METHOD FOR SETTING UP DRIVE SIGNAL - A method for setting up a condition for a drive signal in a liquid ejection head that includes a plurality of linearly-arranged nozzles and driving elements provided for each of the nozzles, includes: calculating an average value or a median value of ejection rates for each nozzle relating to a supply of the drive signal under a plurality of conditions; classifying the plurality of nozzles into a plurality of groups based on the average value or the median value of the ejection rates; calculating a proper condition for the drive signal corresponding to each group based on a statistical value of the ejection rate relating to the group; and selecting one proper condition among proper conditions corresponding to the groups so as to set the selected proper condition for each nozzle. | 08-20-2009 |
20100053266 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT - An electro-optical device includes a substrate having a plurality of film-formation regions configured and arranged to receive a liquid material discharged from a plurality of nozzles of a nozzle row while the substrate and the nozzle row are moved relative to each other in a primary scanning direction. Each of the film-formation regions includes a plurality of landing positions in which the liquid material lands with the landing positions being set by a nozzle interval in a direction of the nozzle row and a discharge interval in the primary scanning direction. At least two or more of the film-formation regions include a portion in which a total number of the landing positions in the at least two or more of the film-formation regions that simultaneously face the nozzles is the same in the primary scanning direction. | 03-04-2010 |
20100055324 | LIQUID DISCHARGE METHOD AND LIQUID DISCHARGE DEVICE - A liquid discharge method is a method for depositing liquid on a plurality of target discharge partitioned areas formed on a substrate as the liquid is selectively discharged from a plurality of discharge nozzles while the substrate and the discharge nozzles are moved relative to each other. The liquid discharge method includes setting an arrangement pattern according to shapes and positions of the target discharge partitioned areas so that a number of the discharge nozzles selected to be used among the discharge nozzles capable of depositing the liquid in the target discharge partitioned areas is the same in each discharge timing. | 03-04-2010 |
20100099322 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE - A method for manufacturing an electro-optical device includes performing a discharge-scanning by moving a nozzle row including a plurality of discharge nozzles and a substrate including a plurality of functional film partitioned areas relative to each other in a direction perpendicular to an array direction of the discharge nozzles in the nozzle row and by selectively discharging liquid from the discharge nozzles to deposit the liquid in the film formation partitioned areas to form a functional film, and performing a secondary scanning by moving the substrate and the nozzle row relative to each other in the array direction. The performing of the secondary scanning includes performing a first secondary scanning at least once in which a relative movement distance between the nozzle row and the substrate is equal to an integral multiple of an arrangement pitch of the film formation partitioned areas in the array direction. | 04-22-2010 |
20100239743 | DROPLET DISCHARGE DEVICE, METHOD FOR DISCHARGING DROPLETS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING COLOR FILTER - A droplet discharge device includes a droplet discharge head, a feed reel, a drying chamber, a drying-gas-introducing device, a take-up reel, an imaging device, an analyzing unit and a control unit. The imaging device captures an image of functional liquid discharged from nozzles of the droplet discharge head onto a sheet member between the feed reel and the take-up reel with the sheet member having been dried in the drying chamber filled with a drying gas to achieve a predetermined humidity. The analyzing unit measures an area over which the functional liquid is deposited on the sheet member from each of the nozzles, and calculates a distribution of a discharge amount of the functional liquid. The control unit adjusts a voltage applied to the drive elements so that the discharge amount of the functional liquid from each of the nozzles approximates a predetermined optimum amount. | 09-23-2010 |
20100247743 | DROPLET DISCHARGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THIN FILM - A droplet discharge device is configured to control the drive corresponding to a prescribed set of the nozzles selected to discharge droplets during a main scan when the droplets are arranged in the first partition regions, based on a pre-measured distribution of a droplet discharge amount of each of the prescribed set of the nozzles so that the droplet discharge amount approximates a predetermined optimal amount, and to control the drive waveforms corresponding to the nozzles included in a plurality of potential combinations of the nozzles selected to discharge droplets during a main scan when the droplets are arranged in the second partition regions, based on a pre-measured distribution of an average droplet discharge amount calculated from an amount of droplets discharged from the each of the nozzles in all the potential combinations so that the droplet discharge amount approximates the predetermined optimal amount. | 09-30-2010 |
20120033005 | METHOD FOR SETTING UP DRIVE SIGNAL - A method for setting up a condition for a drive signal in a liquid ejection head that includes a plurality of linearly-arranged nozzles and driving elements provided for each of the nozzles, includes: calculating an average value or a median value of ejection rates for each nozzle relating to a supply of the drive signal under a plurality of conditions; classifying the plurality of nozzles into a plurality of groups based on the average value or the median value of the ejection rates; calculating a proper condition for the drive signal corresponding to each group based on a statistical value of the ejection rate relating to the group; and selecting one proper condition among proper conditions corresponding to the groups so as to set the selected proper condition for each nozzle. | 02-09-2012 |