Patent ID: 7739981

Claim:
A liquid droplet ejection apparatus comprising: a liquid droplet ejecting portion that ejects droplets of liquid containing a pattern forming material onto an ejection target surface; and an energy beam radiating portion attached to the liquid droplet ejecting portion that radiates an energy beam onto a boundary between the droplets that have been received by the ejection target surface at different timings, thereby moving the liquid contained in boundary areas of the droplets, wherein, in the boundary between the droplets that have been received by the ejection target surface at the different timings, the boundary areas of the droplets overlap each other and thus form an overlapping area, and wherein the energy beam radiating portion includes a scanning mechanism, the scanning mechanism scanning the energy beam from the overlapping area toward a non-overlapping area, or non-boundary areas of the droplets so that the liquid contained in the overlapping area moves toward the non-overlapping area.