PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15978359
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["438", "745000"]

Abstract:
A substrate processing method includes a liquid film forming step of forming a liquid film of an organic solvent with which a whole area of an upper surface of a substrate is covered in order to replace a processing liquid existing on the upper surface with an organic solvent liquid, a thin film holding step of thinning the liquid film of the organic solvent by rotating the substrate at a first high rotational speed while keeping surroundings of the whole area of the upper surface in an atmosphere of an organic solvent vapor and holding a resulting thin film of the organic solvent on the upper surface, and a thin-film removing step of removing the thin film from the upper surface after the thin film holding step, and the thin-film removing step includes a high-speed rotation step of rotating the substrate at a second high rotational speed.

Claim (Index 5):
The substrate processing method according to  claim 1 , wherein the thin film holding step keeps the surroundings of the upper surface of the liquid film of the organic solvent in an atmosphere of the organic solvent vapor by use of the organic solvent vapor generated by evaporation of the organic solvent liquid supplied to the upper surface of the substrate in the liquid film forming step.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74545
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15170055', '15697670', '14075623', '14667769', '14978693']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8776998969953981
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5289354267229728
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8428234499681556
- Mean Citation Score: 269.15101
- Max Citation Score: 356.21774
- Similarity Product: 333.07040329571487

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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