Patent ID: 8187668

Claim:
A material application method by which a discharge apparatus discharges droplets of fluid material on a substrate that has target discharge areas, the discharge apparatus including a stage, a discharge head unit having a first nozzle row of first nozzles and a second nozzle row of second nozzles, and a scanning unit for moving at least one of the stage and the discharge head unit with respect to the other, the material application method comprising: mounting the substrate on the stage of the discharge apparatus such that the target discharge areas are positioned to extend along a X-axis direction; moving one of the stage and the drive head unit relative to the other in a Y-axis direction, the Y-axis direction intersecting with the X-axis direction; discharging first droplets of the fluid material from the first nozzles to the target discharge areas when the first nozzles are positioned in an area above the target discharge areas so that all of the first droplets are arranged in the target discharge areas on different X-axis direction positions so as not to overlap each other when viewed in the Y-axis direction; and discharging second droplets of the fluid material from the second nozzles to the target discharge areas to which the first droplets have been discharged when the second nozzles are positioned in the area above the target discharge areas after a predetermined period of time passed since the discharge of the first droplets to the target discharge areas.