PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16040709
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "438000"]

Abstract:
A photodiode array 1 has a plurality of photodetector channels 10 which are farmed on an n-type substrate 2 having an n-type semiconductor layer 12, with a light to be detected being incident to the plurality of photodetector channels 10. The photodiode array 1 comprises: a p − -type semiconductor layer 13 formed on the n-type semiconductor layer 12 of the substrate 2; resistors 4 each of which is provided to each of the photodetector channels 10 and is connected to a signal conductor 3 at one end thereof; and an n-type separating part 20 formed between the plurality of photodetector channels 10. The p − -type semiconductor layer 13 fauns a pn junction at the interface between the substrate 2, and comprises a plurality of multiplication regions AM for avalanche multiplication of carriers produced by the incidence of the light to be detected so that each of the multiplication regions corresponds to each of the photodetector channels. The separating part 20 is formed so that each of the multiplication regions AM of the p − -type semiconductor layer 13 corresponds to each of the photodetector channels 10.

Claim (Index 13):
The avalanche photodiode array according to  claim 10 , wherein a conductivity type of the second semiconductor layer is the second conductivity type.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.59211
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13116525', '13774002', '12306963', '15293784', '14138950']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.93337916368929
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5541189190898422
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8954531392293453
- Mean Citation Score: 383.459234
- Max Citation Score: 416.2542
- Similarity Product: 312.4293535881401

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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