PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884456
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["438", "005000"]

Abstract:
A susceptor is preheated through light irradiation by a halogen lamp before the first semiconductor wafer of a lot as a processing target is transferred into a chamber. The temperature of the susceptor is measured by a radiation thermometer. A control unit is configured to control the output of the halogen lamp so that the temperature of the susceptor reaches a stable temperature based on a result of the measurement of the temperature of the susceptor by the radiation thermometer. The stable temperature of the susceptor is the temperature of the susceptor when the temperature of the susceptor is risen to a constant temperature by continuously performing light irradiation heating on a plurality of semiconductor wafers in the chamber without heating the susceptor.

Claim (Index 7):
The thermal processing method according to  claim 6 , wherein\n when a stable temperature is set as the temperature of said susceptor when the temperature of said susceptor is risen to a constant temperature by continuously irradiating a plurality of substrates of a lot with light to heat the substrates without heating said susceptor, in said step (d), said susceptor is heated so that the temperature of said susceptor reaches said stable temperature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39623
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15189446', '14081013', '15183893', '15174519', '15150540']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8838953593199849
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5213836178791387
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8476441851759002
- Mean Citation Score: 280.81783
- Max Citation Score: 321.34653
- Similarity Product: 229.3668717510224

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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