DROPLET DISCHARGING APPARATUS, ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE PRODUCTION METHOD, ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND SUBSTRATE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To keep the discharge precision of a functional liquid even when the size of a work is changed by the change of temperature and to easily eliminate the dislocation of a discharge position associated with the relative movement of a functional liquid discharging head and/or the work.

SOLUTION: A droplet discharging apparatus has a linear encoder detecting the relative moving positions of the functional liquid discharging head 5 and the work W and a driving/controlling means driving/controlling the discharge of the functional liquid from a nozzle row 6 based on the detection results of the linear encoder. The linear encoder is composed of a linear scale 52 comprising a plurality of mark rows 52a marked in parallel in the direction parallel to one side end part of the work or in the direction perpendicular to the direction and a plurality of linear sensors 51 facing the mark rows. The driving/controlling means corrects the discharge timing of each nozzle 5a based on the dislocation of the output of the linear sensors.

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