PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16311242
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["427", "248100"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for subjecting a surface of a substrate to successive surface reactions of precursors according to the principles of atomic layer deposition. The method including subjecting the surface of the substrate to the first precursor in a first precursor zone and subjecting the surface of the substrate to the second precursor in a second precursor zone. The method further includes changing the first precursor in the first precursor zone to a subsequent precursor which is different than the first and second precursors and subjecting the surface of the substrate to the subsequent precursor in the first precursor zone and subjecting the surface of the substrate to the second precursor in the second precursor zone.

Claim (Index 26):
A method for subjecting a surface of a substrate to successive surface reactions of at least a first precursor, a second precursor and a first subsequent precursor according to the principles of atomic layer deposition for forming on the surface of the substrate a coating comprising two or more different coating layers, the method being carried out with a nozzle head comprising one or more first precursor nozzles for forming a first precursor zone and one or more second precursor nozzles for forming a second precursor zone, wherein the method comprises:\n a primary deposition step comprising subjecting the surface of the substrate to the first precursor in the first precursor zone and subjecting the surface of the substrate to the second precursor in the second precursor zone for forming a first coating layer on the surface of the substrate; a first changing step comprising changing the first precursor in the first precursor zone to a first subsequent precursor which is different than the first and second precursors; an alternate deposition step comprising subjecting the surface of the substrate to the first subsequent precursor in the first precursor zone and subjecting the surface of the substrate to the second precursor in the second precursor zone for forming a subsequent coating layer on the surface of the substrate; transporting the substrate and simultaneously moving the nozzle head in reciprocating manner over the surface of the substrate for carrying out the primary deposition step and the alternate deposition step.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.33333
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15533825', '13817977', '14405995', '14900816', '13817082']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8066899984463917
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4847683750848426
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7744978361102368
- Mean Citation Score: 238.84834
- Max Citation Score: 255.25198
- Similarity Product: 238.167585641036

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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