Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Junri Ishikura

Makoto Kameyama

Norihiko Ochi

Yasuyuki Saito

Toshiaki Yoshikawa

Naoari Shibata

Takeo Tsukamoto

Masayuki Morohashi

Shuhei Yamamoto

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Katsumi Aoki

Shin Kitamura

Mitsutoshi Hasegawa

Hiroyuki Tokunaga

Koji Sasaki

Ihachiro Gofuku

Shigeki Kondo

Hidehiko Fujimura

Minoru Otani

Kazuhiro Aoyama

Takeaki Kumagai

Yo Watanabe

Shigeki Sasaki

A water-repellent member includes a base layer formed on the substrate, projections dispersedly arranged on the base layer, a first water-repellent material provided on the base layer in contact with the base layer, and a second water-repellent material provided on the projections in contact with the projections. The first water-repellent material and the second water-repellent material are perfluoropolyether compounds. An oxygen concentration of the base layer is lower than an oxygen concentration of the projections.

Water-repellent member, inkjet head, method of manufacturing water-repellent member, and method of manufacturing inkjet head

A top emission organic EL element includes a substrate, an insulating layer including a hole portion, a lower electrode, a light emitting layer, a bank surrounding the lower electrode and the light emitting layer, and an upper transparent electrode. The insulating layer, the lower electrode, the light emitting layer, the bank, and the upper transparent electrode are disposed above the substrate. The bank is arranged on the insulating layer so as to surround the hole portion. The lower electrode is configured to cover an inner side of the hole portion and an area, where the bank is not arranged, of an upper surface of the insulating layer, and a thickness at a center area of the lower electrode is 150 nm or more.

Top emission organic EL element and manufacturing method thereof

An inkjet apparatus includes an inkjet head, a scanning mechanism, a surrounding portion surrounding a predetermined region in which the inkjet head is moved by the scanning mechanism in plan view of the substrate surface and which comprises a height at which a nozzle surface of the inkjet head is disposed in side view of the substrate surface, and a vapor supply portion provided outside the substrate surface and in the region surrounded by the surrounding portion in plan view of the substrate surface. The scanning mechanism is configured to control relative positions of the inkjet head and the substrate surface. The vapor supply portion is configured to supply a vapor of the same material as a component of a solvent contained in the ink to the region surrounded by the surrounding portion.

Inkjet apparatus and method for manufacturing functional element using the same

An optical element includes a substrate having an optically effective surface and an optically non-effective surface, and a light shielding film disposed over the optically non-effective surface. The optically non-effective surface has an inclined chamfer and a level chamfer that define a ridge portion. The ridge portion is coated with an aliphatic hydrocarbon.

Optical element, method for manufacturing the same, and optical apparatus

A manufacturing method of a top emission organic EL element includes a step of providing an insulating layer on a substrate, a processing step of processing a center area within a region in which the insulating layer is provided, a step of forming a bank on the insulating layer, a lower electrode material applying step, a luminescent material applying step, and an upper transparent electrode forming step. The insulating layer is provided such that a contact angle to a solution to be applied in forming a lower electrode becomes smaller at the center area than the contact angle at a peripheral area within the region.

An optical element includes an optically effective surface and an optically non-effective surface, and a light-shielding coating film is formed on the optically non-effective surface. The optically non-effective surface includes a round-chamfered concave step corner section, the light-shielding coating film is formed over the entire concave step corner section, the light-shielding coating film has a raised area near a location where one of planes of the concave step corner section is connected to the round chamfer. Consequently, film cracking of the optically non-effective surface of a stepped shape is inhibited and a reliable optical element is provided.

Optical element and optical device

Provided is a liquid ejection head capable of stably ejecting a liquid at a practical liquid droplet velocity without separating minute liquid droplets before ejection of main liquid droplets in the case of reducing the amount of liquid droplets by reducing a nozzle diameter of the liquid ejection head. In a liquid ejection head including a nozzle for ejecting a liquid, a recess portion recessed relative to a nozzle inner wall surface is formed on a nozzle inner wall in a region having a nozzle inner diameter of 15 &#x3bc;m or less.

Liquid ejection head and process for producing the same

Providing a manufacturing method of a piezoelectric element which contains at least a substrate, a piezoelectric film and an electrode provided between the substrate and the piezoelectric film. The method includes providing an electrode on a substrate, and baking a piezoelectric film after forming the piezoelectric film on the electrode. The electrode includes a mixture layer having an electroconductive oxide and a metal mixed therein. The concentration of the electroconductive oxide in the substrate side of the mixture layer is higher than that in the piezoelectric film side of the mixture layer, and the concentration of the metal in the piezoelectric film side of the mixture layer is higher than that in the substrate side of the mixture layer.

Method of manufacturing a piezoelectric element

Providing a manufacturing method of a piezoelectric element by which even if an electrode and a piezoelectric film stacked on a substrate are baked at a high temperature, the electrode does not oxidize and mutual diffusion between the substrate, the electrode and the piezoelectric film may be suppressed. The electrode is adapted as a laminated layer body which includes an electroconductive oxide layer, a mixture layer having an electroconductive oxide and electroconductive metal, and an electroconductive metal layer including the electroconductive metal from a substrate side, and the mixture layer above is adapted as a graded composition structure in which a ration of the electroconductive oxide is highest in an interface with the electroconductive oxide layer and lowest in an interface with the electroconductive metal layer.

Piezoelectric element and manufacturing method thereof, electronic device, ink jet device

A particle film deposition method provides ultrafine particles generated by arc heating. An electrode is employed with at least two sub-electrodes each radially aligned toward the same part of a material. The material is evaporated by an arc discharge via the electrode, particles are generated from the evaporated material and the particles collide against a substrate.

Film forming method employing sub-electrodes aligned toward target

Evaporation and condensation of carbon is effected by arc discharge between an anode formed of a carbon electrode and a cathode disposed facing the carbon electrodein an inert gas atmosphere, and at the same time, the generated carbon nanotubes are dispersed into an inert gas and transported along with the inert gas through a transporting tube, and a jet of the inert gas containing the carbon nanotubes is emitted from a nozzle, thereby forming carbon nanotubes on a target substrate. This provides a carbon nanotube manufacturing method wherein carbon nanotubes are generated with a simple process, and the CNT patterning process is simplified by forming a carbon nanotube film on a substrate, thereby reducing costs.

Method and apparatus of fixing carbon fibers on a substrate using an aerosol deposition process

A method of producing a fiber, comprising the steps of introducing catalytic particles originally formed in a particle-forming chamber into an arraying chamber together with a carrier gas, to cause the catalytic particles to become arranged on a substrate disposed in the arraying chamber. A next step includes growing fibers, each including carbon as a major component, based on the catalytic particles arranged on the substrate. The fibers grow by heating the catalytic particles arranged on the substrate in an atmosphere containing carbon.

Method of producing fiber, and methods of producing electron-emitting device, electron source, and image display device each using the fiber

A particle film deposition apparatus and method are provided, with which ultra fine particles are generated by arc heating. The generated ultra fine particles can be efficiently sucked up into a transfer tube regardless of an arc voltage, and the resulting film can be stable in shape. An evaporation materialto be evaporated by arc heating and to generate ultra fine particles is connected to an electrode. As other electrodes, a plurality of rodseach having a discharge section at the tip thereof are provided. These rodsare so arranged as to be directed in each different direction with respect to the evaporation material

Film deposition apparatus and film deposition method

A method of manufacturing an electron-emitting device having excellent electron emission characteristics is provided in which fibers comprising carbon as the main composition are fixed (bonded) to a substrate in a desired area and at a desired density with simple processes and inexpensive manufacture cost, and a manufacture method for an electron source, a light-emitting apparatus and an image forming apparatus using such electron-emitting devices is provided. A method of manufacturing an electron-emitting device made of material comprising carbon as main composition by an aerosol type gas deposition method in which the material comprising carbon as the main composition is aerosolized and transported together with gas, and tightly attached (bonded) to a substrate via a nozzle.

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Tokyo, Japan

Junri Ishikura