PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15764575
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["438", "046000"]

Abstract:
A thin film production method according to one embodiment includes: a coating film forming step of forming a coating film by discharging a coating liquid on a support from first to M-th line heads (M is 2 or larger and N or smaller) while allowing the support to pass through N line heads once; and a drying step of obtaining a thin film by drying the coating film. A thin film forming nozzle hole  28  of the m-th line head (m is 2 or larger and M or smaller) is arranged to be positioned between adjacent thin film forming nozzle holes in an (m−1)-th thin film forming nozzle hole array Q m-1 . Every time the first line head discharges the coating liquid, the m-th line head applies the coating liquid onto the support at a predetermined delay time with respect to a discharge time of the first line head. The first to M-th line heads discharge the coating liquid from the film forming nozzle hole selected in accordance with a shape of a thin film formation region onto the support.

Claim (Index 1):
A thin film production method for forming a thin film on a support by using an ink jet method while conveying Ihc support, the method comprising;\n a coating film forming step of discharging a coating liquid containing a thin film forming material to a thin film formation region on the support from first to M-th line heads (M is a natural number of 2 or larger and N or smaller) among N line heads while causing the support to pass through a line head group once, the line head group including the N line heads (N is a natural number of 2 or larger) arranged to be spaced apart from each other in a conveying direction of the support, and forming a coating film in which the coating liquid deposited on the support is continuous; and a drying step of obtaining the thin film by drying the coating film, wherein the respective N line heads are arranged to be spaced apart from each other in a support width direction, which is a direction orthogonal to the conveying direction, each of the N line heads has a plurality of thin film forming nozzle holes arrayed in the support width direction, the first to M-th line heads are arranged sequentially upstream to downstream in the conveying direction, when a thin film forming nozzle hole array, obtained by projecting the plurality of thin film forming nozzle holes of first to m-th line heads (m is a natural number of 2 or larger and M or smaller) among the first to M-th line heads onto a virtual plane orthogonal to the conveying direction is set as an m-th thin film forming nozzle hole array, the plurality of thin film forming nozzle holes included in the m-th line head are arranged in the m-th line head so as to be positioned between adjacent thin film forming nozzle holes in an (m\u22121)-th thin film forming nozzle hole array, in the coating film forming step, the first line head applies the coating liquid onto the support at a plurality of discharge times, and the m-th line head applies the coating liquid onto the support at a predetermined delay time with respect to the discharge time of the first line head for each application of the coating liquid by the first line head at each of the times, and the first to M-th line heads discharge the coating liquid onto the support from thin film forming nozzle holes selected, in accordance with a shape of a thin film formation region, from among the plurality of thin film forming nozzle holes included in each of the first to M-th line heads for each of the discharge times of the first to M-th line heads.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33735
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13644155', '15601862', '11093278', '11981334', '12342480']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8285657074972492
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5014572466914091
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7958548614166653
- Mean Citation Score: 195.203874
- Max Citation Score: 211.8763
- Similarity Product: 142.65404550409315

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

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