Seiko Epson Corporation

Future Vision Inc.

Shinri Sakai

Toshimitsu Hirai

Yoshinao Miyata

Jiun-Der Yu

Minoru Usui

Masato Shimada

Toyohiko Mitsuzawa

Tomoaki Abe

Tatsuo Furuta

Yuji Tanaka

Atsushi Kobayashi

Fujio Akahane

Takahiro Katakura

Takahiro Naka

Shiro Yazaki

Masahiro Fujii

Kazuhiko Hara

Koichi Toba

Takayuki Ishii

Tsutomu Hashizume

Hideaki Sonehara

Kohei Kitahara

Koji Watanabe

Yutaka Furuhata

Naomi Shirakawa

Takeo Kawase

Atsushi Denda

Akira Matsuzawa

Kazunaga Suzuki

Keiji Matsumoto

Kaoru Momose

Kazumi Kamoi

Jie Zhang

Souichi Moriya

Yoichi Noda

Fumiyuki Kanai

Kazuhiko Miura

Hiroshi Hosokawa

Satoshi Shinada

Takeo Seino

Kinya Ozawa

Tsutomu Nishiwaki

Shuji Yonekubo

Tetsushi Takahashi

Toshiki Usui

Masaru Hoshino

Yoshikazu Yoshimoto

Toru Nimura

Katsuyuki Moriya

Hayato Takahashi

Takahiro Usui

Yoshio Miyazawa

Yoshikatsu Yamamoto

Tsukasa Ota

Masashi Goto

Toshio Narita

Yasuto Shimura

Yoshiko Tatsuzawa

Yasushi Kishida

An embodiment of the present invention may be a system or method for simulating a physical process. The physical process being simulated may be in a droplet. The process being simulated may be the drying of a droplet on a substrate. Simulating the physical process may include using a finite difference scheme to approximate a differential of a function. The function may be dependent on a plurality of variables. The location in space at which one or more of the variables is evaluated may depend on the sign of one or more of the variables and upon which portion of the finite difference equation is being evaluated.

Upwind algorithm for solving lubrication equations

A method for making en electro-optic device includes a filling step of ejecting liquid matter containing a solvent and a functional layer-forming material into recesses formed in a substrate to fill the recesses with the liquid matter; and a fixing step of removing a solvent component from the liquid matter to fix the functional layer-forming material in the recesses. In the filling step, the concentration of the functional layer-forming material in the liquid matter filling each recess is changed on the basis of the size of an opening width of the recess.

Method for making electro-optic device and liquid ejecting device

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming a plurality of regions extending in a predetermined direction on a substrate; and ejecting a liquid material on the plurality of regions to form an electrically conductive film, wherein the electrically conductive film extends in the same direction as the plurality of regions so as to overlap the plurality of regions.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device, semiconductor device, display device, and electronic instrument

Droplets of a liquid are ejected through a plurality of nozzles to a plurality of coating regions on a substrate based on nozzle information including the ejection amount of a droplet of the liquid ejected through each nozzle. According to arrangement information for disposing the liquid, a plurality of droplet groups are disposed in each coating region while the plurality of nozzles and the substrate are scanned for relative movement. A calculation is performed according to the nozzle information and the arrangement information. Adjustment amount is calculated so that the assigned adjustment amounts vary from one droplet group to another. Driving signals, which drive selected nozzles, are set so that combinations of the driving signals give coating amounts that have taken the assigned adjustment amounts into account.

Liquid coating method and method for manufacturing organic EL device

An electro-optical device includes a substrate, a partition disposed on the substrate, and a plurality of electro-optical elements disposed on the substrate. Each element includes a functional layer having an electro-optic function, with a resolution in a first direction that corresponds to an interval between the elements in the first direction. The plurality of elements constitute element arrays and are divided into a plurality of element groups. The element arrays are arranged in a direction crossing the first direction. Each group includes the corresponding electro-optical elements aligned in a second direction crossing the first direction, and each of the plurality of element regions includes at least one of the element groups and extends in a third direction crossing the first direction as viewed from the top.

Electro-optical device, electronic device, and method for manufacturing electro-optical device

A computer implemented method for simulating a final pattern of a droplet of a fluid having a plurality of fluid properties is disclosed. The method includes using lubrication equations to represent solute flow, diffusion and evaporation of a droplet on a substrate. The method further includes solving the lubrication equations through temporal discretization and spatial discretization; and deriving the final pattern of the droplet from results of the solving. The final pattern is stored on a computer readable medium.

Finite difference algorithm for solving lubrication equations with solute diffusion

A method of forming a film pattern by placing a functional liquid on a substrate, comprises:

Method of forming film pattern, film pattern, device, electro optic device, and electronic apparatus

A droplet discharging head includes a first through hole having an outlet for discharging of a liquid material and a second through hole having an inlet for injection of the liquid material, the second through hole having a protrusion on surface.

Droplet discharging head with a through hole having a protrusion on a surface, droplet discharging device and a functional-film forming device

The invention provides a method of forming a wiring pattern in which a conductive material layer is formed in a pattern formation region having a first region, which is bordered by a bank pattern and has a first width, and a second region, which touches the first region and has a second width smaller than the first width, on a substrate, by discharging a droplet of a conductive material in a liquid phase using a droplet discharge device. The method includes forming the conductive material layer to cover the first region and the second region, by discharging the droplet having a diameter smaller than the first width and greater than the second width toward the first region. In this case, the droplet is discharged such that the droplet lands at a position that faces a boundary line between the first region and the second region.

Method of forming wiring pattern and method of forming gate electrode for TFT

A droplet discharging head includes a first drive unit and a base coupled to the first drive unit. The base includes a portion defining a first cavity, a portion defining a first discharging port, and a portion defining a first through hole through which the portion defining a first cavity and the portion defining a first discharging port communicate with each other. The droplet discharging head also includes a plurality of first electrode branches and a plurality of second electrode branches. The plurality of first electrode branches and the plurality of second electrode branches are disposed alternately apart from each other on a periphery of the portion defining a first discharging port, and extend on a surface of the portion defining a first through hole.

Droplet discharging head and droplet discharging apparatus

A liquid droplet discharging head includes: a substrate; a pressure chamber connected to the substrate; a penetrating portion formed in the substrate to discharge a liquid droplet; and a plurality of liquid droplet guiding portions formed at the penetrating portion of the substrate to guide the liquid droplet, in which each of the liquid droplet guiding portions extends with a curvature in an discharging direction of the liquid droplet.

Liquid droplet discharging apparatus and head with liquid droplet guides

A bank structure in which a recess corresponding to a pattern formed of a functional liquid is provided includes first recess provided corresponding to a first pattern, and a second recess provided on part of the first recess and corresponding to a second pattern. The second recess has a shape that has a width larger than a width of the first recess and has a circular arc in at least part of an outer circumference of the second recess.

Bank structure, method of forming bank structure, device, electro-optical device and electronic apparatus

To provide an ink jet recording head with a decreased initial deflection amount of a diaphragm and an ink jet recorder comprising the ink jet recording head. An ink jet recording head which has a flow passage formation substratewhere pressure generation chamberscommunicating with nozzle openings are defined and a piezoelectric element being placed on one side of the flow passage formation substratevia a diaphragm and having at least a lower electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and an upper electrode, characterized in that at least one of layers deposited together with the piezoelectric layeris a compression filmhaving a compressive stress and the compression filmhas at least a part in a thickness direction removed in at least a part of an area opposed to the pressure generation chamber, whereby the stress of the whole film is decreased.

Ink jet recording head and ink jet recorder

A method of manufacturing an active matrix substrate includes forming wiring lines each having a matrix pattern on a substrate such that a wiring line extending in any one of a first direction and a second direction is separated from another wiring line at an intersection; forming a laminated portion composed of an insulating layer and a semiconductor layer on a portion of the wiring line and the intersection; and forming a conductive layer electrically connecting the separated wiring line, and a pixel electrode electrically connected to the wiring line via the semiconductor layer on the laminated portion.

Method of manufacturing active matrix substrate, active matrix substrate, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus

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