Pattern forming system, pattern forming method, and electronic apparatus

Abstract

A pattern forming system including a feeding reel for feeding a tape form substrate that is wound up, a winding reel for winding up the tape form substrate that is fed up, and a droplet discharge apparatus for discharging a droplet onto the tape form substrate, between the feeding reel and the winding reel, to form a pattern, wherein the droplet discharge apparatus includes a table that can move while sucking the tape form substrate, with a slack mechanism for the tape form substrate being placed on the both ends of the table in the longitudinal direction of the tape form substrate.

1 . A droplet discharge method that winds a flexible substrate fed from a feeding reel by a winding reel, and discharges a droplet from a droplet discharge head onto the flexible substrate between the feeding reel and the winding reel, comprising:
 fixing the flexible substrate against a table on which the flexible substrate is mounted; and   discharging the droplet from the droplet discharge head to the flexible substrate in a state in which the flexible substrate is fixed against the table.   
     
     
         2 . The droplet discharge method as set forth in  claim 1 , further comprising:
 adjusting a position of the flexible substrate with respect to the droplet discharge head by moving the table before discharging the droplet.   
     
     
         3 . The droplet discharge method as set forth in  claim 2 ,
 a direction in which the table moves being a direction in which the flexible substrate is conveyed.   
     
     
         4 . The droplet discharge method as set forth in  claim 1 ,
 in the discharging a droplet, as the droplet, a UV hardening material being discharged from the droplet discharge head.   
     
     
         5 . The droplet discharge method as set forth in  claim 4 , further comprising:
 hardening the droplet by irradiating UV [light] to the droplet discharged to the flexible substrate.   
     
     
         6 . The droplet discharge method as set forth in  claim 1 ,
 in the fixing the flexible substrate against the table, first and second rollers pressing the flexible substrate against the table by pressing the first roller, which is arranged on one side, and the second roller, which is arranged on another side, with the table sandwiched therebetween, in the direction in which the flexible substrate is conveyed.   
     
     
         7 . The droplet discharge method as set forth in  claim 1 ,
 the table having an adsorption function that adsorbs the flexible substrate.