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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2004
Filed:
May. 28, 2003
Yoshiharu Sasaki, Fujinomiya, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
Apparatus and method of forming a spacer for use in a liquid crystal panel are capable of economizing materials used for spacers for use in the liquid crystal panel and reducing a quantity of waste of the materials used, while being suitable for a large-scaled liquid crystal panel. A recording medium having an image forming layer is superposed on a substrate used to form a liquid crystal panel, then the recording medium is exposed through irradiation of a laser beam emitted from a recording head, and an image pattern of spacers is thereby recorded in the image forming layer. The image pattern of spacers thus recorded is then recorded on the substrate to be used as spacers for use in the liquid crystal panel by peeling off the recording medium from the substrate.