PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15960865
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["355", "053000"]

Abstract:
An exposure apparatus includes a nozzle member, a nozzle driving system having an actuator by which the nozzle member is moved, and a controller. The nozzle member includes a liquid supply port from which immersion liquid is supplied, a liquid recovery port via which the supplied immersion liquid is recovered, and a gas supply port via which a gas is supplied. The liquid supply port, the liquid recovery port and the gas supply port face downwardly, the liquid recovery port is arranged radially outward of the liquid supply port with respect to a path of the exposure light, and the gas supply port is arranged radially outward of the liquid recovery port with respect to the path. The controller controls the nozzle driving system based on information on a movement of a substrate stage.

Claim (Index 3):
The exposure apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the nozzle member further has a suction port.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.9
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11662729', '14145136', '13317170', '14314664', '12382229']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7376242335963002
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5249076592884623
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7163525761655165
- Mean Citation Score: 316.21934
- Max Citation Score: 348.0586
- Similarity Product: 249.6330775550127

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

Dataset: test