Patent ID: 8609006

Claim:
A pattern transfer apparatus, comprising: a conveyance device which conveys a substrate having a substrate surface; a liquid ejection device having a plurality of liquid ejection ports through which droplets of liquid are ejected and deposited onto the substrate surface; a scanning movement device which is configured to relatively move the substrate and the liquid ejection device to cause the liquid ejection device to scan the substrate surface in a relative scanning direction that is parallel to the substrate surface; a stamp having a stamp surface on which a pattern is formed, the stamp surface being applied to the droplets of the liquid on the substrate surface in a stamp application direction while the stamp is relatively moved with respect to the substrate; a control device with a central processing unit and a program storage unit that reads out control programs to control the liquid ejection device and the scanning movement device such that the droplets ejected respectively from at least two different liquid ejection ports of the plurality of liquid ejection ports are deposited onto at least one of a plurality of regions of the substrate surface, the regions being straight and parallel to the stamp application direction and having widths substantially equal to diameters of the droplets deposited on the substrate surface; and a curing device which cures the liquid on the substrate surface in a state where a whole of the stamp surface is in contact with the liquid on the substrate surface.