PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15921506
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["438", "680000"]

Abstract:
In a substrate processing method for processing a substrate by alternately performing a processing gas supply step of supplying a processing gas for processing the substrate into a processing chamber which accommodates the substrate and to which a gas exhaust line is connected and a replacement gas supply step of supplying a replacement gas for replacing an atmosphere in the processing chamber into the processing chamber multiple times, a ballast gas is introduced into the gas exhaust line when the processing gas supply step is performed.

Claim (Index 9):
The substrate processing apparatus of  claim 7 , wherein the ballast gas introducing unit introduces the ballast gas to an upstream side of an opening degree variable valve provided in the exhaust line.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31579
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13311760', '11608504', '14711551', '14820723', '14516460']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8743307421949017
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4912501941319502
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8360226873886065
- Mean Citation Score: 214.866998
- Max Citation Score: 223.01607
- Similarity Product: 165.21205115893542

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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