Patent ID: 7921801

Claim:
A droplet jetting applicator, comprising: a coating unit jetting and coating droplets to a to-be-coated object; a drying unit for drying the to-be-coated object coated with the droplets, the drying unit comprising: a storage space storing the to-be-coated object coated with the droplets; an exhaust section exhausting gas in the storage space; and an adjustment unit adjusting an outlet flow of the gas exhausted by the exhaust section from the storage space; and a control section configured to control the adjustment unit so that the outlet flow is changed in a stepwise manner, the control section configured to control the adjustment unit so that the outlet flow is made smaller than the maximum outlet flow when the exhaust section starts to exhaust the gas in the storage space and the outlet flow is made to be the maximum outlet flow when a vacuum pressure in the storage space reaches a predetermined vacuum pressure to thereby dry the to-be-coated object coated with the droplets.