PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15933760
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["438", "488000"]

Abstract:
A method of performing a film formation on target substrates in a state where a substrate holder for holding the target substrates in a shelf shape is loaded into a vertical reaction container from a lower opening thereof and the lower opening is closed by a lid. The method includes: performing the film formation on the target substrates by supplying a processing gas into the reaction container; opening the lid and unloading the substrate holder from the reaction container; performing the film formation on a bottom portion of the reaction container including an inner surface of the lid by closing the lower opening with the lid and supplying a coating gas different from the processing gas into the reaction container; and performing the film formation on the target substrates by opening the lid, loading the substrate holder into the reaction container, and supplying the processing gas into the reaction container.

Claim (Index 8):
A vertical thermal processing apparatus of performing a film formation on a plurality of target substrates in a state in which a substrate holder configured to hold the plurality of target substrates in a shelf shape is loaded into a vertical reaction container around which a heating part is disposed from a lower opening of the vertical reaction container and the lower opening is closed by a lid, comprising:\n a processing gas supply path through which a processing gas for performing the film formation on the plurality of target substrates is supplied into the vertical reaction container; a coating gas supply path through which a coating gas is supplied into the vertical reaction container; a vacuum exhaust mechanism configured to evacuate an interior of the vertical reaction container; and a controller configured to execute a film forming step of performing the film formation on the plurality of target substrates, subsequently a step of opening the lid to unload the substrate holder from the vertical reaction container, subsequently a coating step of performing the film formation on at least an inner surface of the lid by closing the lower opening with the lid and supplying the coating gas into the vertical reaction container, and subsequently, a step of performing the film formation on the plurality of target substrates by opening the lid to load the substrate holder configured to hold the plurality of target substrates into the vertical reaction container.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.87273
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12707299', '12954767', '14229493', '12707193', '12401214']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8599063248387541
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4872492509570375
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8226406174505825
- Mean Citation Score: 218.91
- Max Citation Score: 229.29092000000003
- Similarity Product: 177.61312665676118

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

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