Patent ID: 7895968
Filing Date: 2011-03-01
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A liquid droplet ejection apparatus comprising: a liquid droplet ejection portion that ejects a liquid droplet containing a structure forming material onto a substrate; and drying means that dries the droplet on the substrate, thereby forming a structure made of the structure forming material, wherein the drying means includes: an energy outputting section that outputs energy onto the droplet on the substrate, thereby causing the structure forming material in the droplet to flow; an energy profile controlling section controlling, based on a drive and control signal, an energy profile of the energy output by the energy outputting section; and a controller that generates the drive and control signal, wherein the controller includes a CPU and ROM, wherein the CPU searches for a beam profile sequence corresponding to thickness distribution data of the structure to be formed from among a plurality of beam profile sequences stored in the ROM, wherein the CPU searches for, based on profile identification information of the beam profile sequence, a piece of beam profile forming information corresponding to the profile identification information from among a plurality of pieces of beam profile forming information stored in the ROM, the specific piece of beam profile forming information, and wherein the CPU generates the drive and control signal based on the beam profile sequence and the piece of beam profile forming information.