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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 3/407 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 3/407 ;
Abstract
There are disclosed an apparatus and method for manufacturing a color filter for a liquid crystal display by forming a plurality of color elements on a glass substrate. Three ink-jet heads respectively having R, G, and B color ink are moved relative to the glass substrate, and form color elements by ejecting corresponding color ink onto positions, corresponding to the color elements, on the substrate. Each color element has a shape elongated in the arrangement direction of nozzles of the ink-jet heads, and is made up of a plurality of ink ejections from different nozzles of the ink-jet head.