PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16239932
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["349", "124000"]

Abstract:
The present invention prevents the shaving of an alignment film caused by a columnar spacer in a liquid crystal display device of an IPS method using photo-alignment. A plinth higher than a pixel electrode is formed at a part where a columnar spacer formed over a counter substrate touches a TFT substrate. When an alignment film of a double-layered structure is applied over the pixel electrode and the plinth, the thickness of the alignment film over the plinth reduces by a leveling effect. When photo-alignment is applied in the state, a photodegraded upper alignment film over the plinth disappears and a lower alignment film having a high mechanical strength remains. As a result, it is possible to prevent the shaving of the alignment film.

Claim (Index 5):
The liquid crystal display device according to  claim 1 , wherein p2 is 20 nm or less over the plinth.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97015
- Patent Class: 349.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13407137', '15826366', '14840604', '15284864', '14485711']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8671425622525682
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5696072018751722
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8373890262148286
- Mean Citation Score: 402.435218
- Max Citation Score: 439.38525
- Similarity Product: 420.3373838374615

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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