PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16124331
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["355", "067000"]

Abstract:
Exhaust of gas in the processing chamber is started by a gas exhaust section, and supply of an inert gas into the processing chamber is started by a gas supply section after a predetermined time length has elapsed since the exhaust of gas is started. Alternatively, the gas in the processing chamber in which a substrate is stored is exhausted by the gas exhaust section, the inert gas is supplied into the processing chamber by the gas supply section, and the pressure in a light emitter that has a light-transmitting plate is allowed to match or be close to the pressure in the processing chamber. The substrate in the processing chamber is irradiated with vacuum ultraviolet rays by the light emitter with an oxygen concentration in the gas in the processing chamber lowered to a predetermined concentration. Thus, the substrate is exposed.

Claim (Index 1):
An exposure device comprising:\n a processing chamber that stores a substrate; a platform on which the substrate is placed in the processing chamber; a first gas exhaust section for exhausting gas in the processing chamber; a first gas supply section for supplying an inert gas into the processing chamber; a light emitter that emits vacuum ultraviolet rays; a first gas supply controller that controls the first gas supply section such that supply of the inert gas into the processing chamber is started after a predetermined first time length has elapsed since exhaust of the gas in the processing chamber is started by the first gas exhaust section; a light emission controller that controls the light emitter such that the substrate is exposed by irradiation of the substrate in the processing chamber with the vacuum ultraviolet rays with an oxygen concentration in the gas in the processing chamber lowered to a predetermined concentration; and a driver that moves the platform between a first position and a second position such that the platform is located at the first position in the processing chamber when the substrate is carried into or carried out from the processing chamber, and moves the platform between the first position and the second position such that the platform is located at the second position that is closer to the light emitter than the first position when the substrate is irradiated with the vacuum ultraviolet rays by the light emitter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69643
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15902037', '15900889', '15079147', '15079153', '11673257']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7012652136937886
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4902899917264087
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6801676914970507
- Mean Citation Score: 232.197184
- Max Citation Score: 290.5311
- Similarity Product: 238.47937527537343

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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