Seiko Epson Corporation

Hisashi Aruga

Satoru Katagami

Hiroshi Kiguchi

Tomomi Kawase

Tatsuya Ito

Masaharu Shimizu

Toshihiro Ushiyama

Keiji Takizawa

Kunio Maruyama

Tatsuya Shimoda

Takashi Kobayashi

Yoshiaki Yamada

Toshihiro Ushitama

Ryuji Sawata

A manufacturing system, located at a manufacturing system site, includes a discharger for discharging a liquid material having fluidity onto a substrate, communication means for transmitting and receiving data through a communication line, and monitoring means for monitoring the state of the discharger and for outputting data obtained by the monitoring through the communication means. The communication means provides communication between the monitoring means at the manufacturing system site and a server located outside of the manufacturing system site. The monitoring means receives a control command from the server through the communication means.

Manufacturing system and controller, controlling method, controlling system, and control program for the manufacturing system

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 &#x3b8;.

Apparatus and method for producing color filters by discharging material

A color filter has a light-transmissive substrate, a reflecting layer formed on the back substrate and provided with openings, boundary layers and formed on the reflecting layer, and a plurality of coloring layers enclosed by the boundary layers. A transparent coat layer is provided between the reflecting layer and the boundary layers. A step is formed between the openings and the transparent coat layer. The coloring layers are formed by applying the droplets of colored fluid to the openings first, and then to the transparent coat layer. The difference in color saturation of the color filter in a reflective display mode and a transmissive display mode is reduced. Also, a liquid material is appropriately applied to the color filter, to enhance color balance.

Color filter, display device having such color filter, electro-optic device having such color filter, electronic instrument having such color filter

An IJ-system reagent inspection devicethat instructs an ejection device to eject a reagent and reads an inspection result from a detachable DNA chip module. The method is carried out based on inspection information of inputted inspection items to produce and output inspection data along with inputted examinee-identification information and the corresponding inspection items through communication lines. In a control device, the examinee identification information is received from the IJ-system reagent inspection devicealong with the inspection items and the inspection data through the communication lines. The inspection items and the inspection data are recorded in association with the examinee identification information to request a diagnosis based on the inspection data.

Diagnostic analytical method utilizing DNA chips with thin-film transistor (TFT) elements

A method of manufacturing a color filter substrate includes providing a base, forming a reflective film over the base, forming a plurality of banks on the reflective film between such that at least one of the banks has a transmissive portion and a non-transmissive portion, and forming a plurality of coloring elements by depositing prescribed fluid in a plurality of deposit portions that are defined by the banks such that the coloring elements have at least two different colors and are disposed so as to form a prescribed pattern.

Color filter substrate manufacturing method

To enhance the brightness and contrast of a display, and to enhance the visibility of a color filter, a color filter includes a substrate that transmits light, a reflective layer that is formed on the substrate and includes openings, boundary layers formed on parts of the reflective layer, and a plurality of colored layers that are surrounded by the boundary layers. As the boundary layers, boundary layers that transmit light are formed between colored layers of the same color and boundary layers that do not transmit light are formed between colored layers of different colors.

Color filter, method of manufacturing a color filter, display apparatus, electro-optical apparatus, and electronic appliance

Producing system and its control device, control method, control system and control program

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 &#x201c;c&#x201d; through &#x201c;k&#x201d; by sub-scanning, thereby repeatedly discharging ink in the same portion of the areas.

Method and apparatus for producing color filter, method and apparatus for manufacturing liquid crystal device, method and apparatus for manufacturing EL device, method of discharging material, apparatus for controlling head and electronic apparatus

A color filter substrate includes first and second layers having openings, a filter layer located in the openings, a reflecting component, and a transmitting component. The reflecting component is provided at least partially on a second side of the filter layer such that first light rays that are incident on the filter layer from a first side are reflected to the first side, where the first side is an opposite side of the second side. The transmitting component is provided at least partially on the second side of the filter layer, such that second light rays that are incident on the filter layer from the second side are emitted to the first side. The present invention provides a color filter substrate, a liquid crystal display device, and an electronic device having a structure that allows good coating with a liquid material.

Color filter substrate having reflecting and transmitting components, liquid crystal display device having the same, and electronic device having the same

An IJ-system reagent inspection devicethat instructs an ejection device to eject a reagent and reads an inspection result from a detachable DNA chip moduleThe method is carried out based on inspection information of inputted inspection items to produce and output inspection data along with inputted examinee-identification information and the corresponding inspection items through communication lines. In a control device, the examinee identification information is received from the IJ-system reagent inspection devicealong with the inspection items and the inspection data through the communication lines. The inspection items and the inspection data are recorded in association with the examinee identification information to request a diagnosis based on the inspection data.

Diagnostic analytical system comprising DNA chips with thin-film transistor (TFT) elements

The invention provides a color display substrate having plural color display elements arranged in a matrix pattern, and a manufacturing method to efficiently obtain a color filter substrate and color luminescent substrate, for example. A manufacturing method of a color display substrate includes the step of forming plural color dots by selectively ejecting liquid droplets from nozzles in accordance with input data. The plural color dots constitute plural pixels, which constitute plural color filter elements arranged in a matrix pattern. The plural color dots have a first dot pitch in a direction perpendicular to a first base line. Each of the plural color dots is formed to lie at a distance of at least substantially an integral multiple of the first dot pitch from the first base line.

Color display substrate, color filter substrate, color luminescent substrate, manufacturing method of color display substrate, electro-optical apparatus, electronic device, film-forming method, film-forming apparatus, and display motherboard

A color filterhas a light-transmissive substrate, a reflecting layerformed on the back substrateand provided with openings, boundary layersandformed on the reflecting layer, and a plurality of coloring layersenclosed by the boundary layersand. A transparent coat layeris provided between the reflecting layerand the boundary layersand. A step is formed between the openingsand the transparent coat layer. The coloring layersare formed by applying the dropletsof colored fluid to the openingsfirst, and then to the transparent coat layer. The difference in color saturation of the color filterin a reflective display mode and a transmissive display mode is reduced. Also, a liquid material is appropriately applied to the color filter, to enhance color balance.

Method of depositing liquid material to manufacture color filter

To provide a color filter substrate that is suitable for being appropriately applied with a liquid color filter material, a manufacturing method thereof, a display device, a liquid crystal display device and electronic equipment. A color filter substrate includes a first layer having an opening, a reflective part, a transmissive part and a filter layer that is placed on the opening and formed to cover the reflective part and the transmissive part. The transmissive part is an opening of the reflective part and has an approximately elliptical shape.

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Fujimi-machi, Japan

Hisashi Aruga