PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16056387
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["134", "022100"]

Abstract:
In a substrate processing apparatus, an ejection surface of an ejection head located at a standby position is immersed in an immersion liquid retained in a reservoir during standby of the ejection head. This prevents drying of a plurality of outlets provided in the ejection head and drying of processing liquid flow passages that communicate with the outlets. It is thus possible to suppress or prevent clogging of the fine outlets. When the ejection head resumes processing on a substrate, the immersion liquid in the reservoir is discharged and then a liquid removing part removes the immersion liquid adhering to the ejection surface. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent the immersion liquid remaining on the ejection surface from dropping and adhering to the substrate (so-called “liquid dripping”) when, for example, the ejection head is moved to a position above the substrate.

Claim (Index 15):
The standby method for the ejection head according to  claim 14 , wherein\n said immersion liquid is supplied from a bottom of said reservoir and discharged from a top of said reservoir.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1831
- Patent Class: 134.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14206902', '14801096', '11947643', '13433872', '10812405']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8370561928647715
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5203362924666578
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8053842028249601
- Mean Citation Score: 200.37105000000005
- Max Citation Score: 322.45166
- Similarity Product: 238.93938894964933

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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