PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15925490
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["205", "080000"]

Abstract:
There is provided a plating apparatus for plating a rectangular substrate using a substrate holder holding the rectangular substrate. The plating apparatus comprises a plating bath configured to store the substrate holder holding the rectangular substrate, and an anode disposed inside the plating bath so as to face the substrate holder. The substrate holder includes an electrical contact configured to feed two opposite sides of the rectangular substrate. The rectangular substrate and the anode are placed inside the plating bath so as to satisfy the relationship of 0.59×L 1 −43.5 mm≤D 1 ≤0.58×L 1 −19.8 mm, where L 1  is the shortest distance between a substrate center of the rectangular substrate and the electrical contact, and D 1  is the distance between the rectangular substrate and the anode.

Claim (Index 5):
The method according to  claim 4 , further comprising:\n a sixth step of redetermining the opening shape of the anode mask having minimal variation in film thickness distribution of the rectangular substrate in a state where the opening shape of the cylindrical portion of the regulation plate is set to the value determined in the second step, the distance between the rectangular substrate and the anode is set to the value determined in the third step, the distance between the rectangular substrate and the regulation plate is set to the value determined in the fourth step, and the length of the cylindrical portion of the regulation plate is set to the value determined in the fifth step; a seventh step of redetermining the opening shape of the cylindrical portion of the regulation plate having minimal variation in film thickness distribution of the rectangular substrate in a state where the opening shape of the anode mask is set to the value determined in the sixth step, the distance between the rectangular substrate and the anode is set to the value determined in the third step, the distance between the rectangular substrate and the regulation plate is set to the value determined in the fourth step, and the length of the cylindrical portion of the regulation plate is set to the value determined in the fifth step; an eighth step of redetermining the distance between the rectangular substrate and the anode having minimal variation in film thickness distribution of the rectangular substrate in a state where the opening shape of the anode mask is set to the value determined in the sixth step, the opening shape of the cylindrical portion of the regulation plate is set to the value determined in the seventh step, the distance between the rectangular substrate and the regulation plate is set to the value determined in the fourth step, and the length of the cylindrical portion of the regulation plate is set to the value determined in the fifth step; a ninth step of redetermining the distance between the rectangular substrate and the regulation plate having minimal variation in film thickness distribution of the rectangular substrate in a state where the opening shape of the anode mask is set to the value determined in the sixth step, the opening shape of the cylindrical portion of the regulation plate is set to the value determined in the seventh step, the distance between the rectangular substrate and the anode is set to the value determined in the eighth step, and the length of the cylindrical portion of the regulation plate is set to the value determined in the fifth step; and a tenth step of redetermining the length of the cylindrical portion of the regulation plate having minimal variation in film thickness distribution of the rectangular substrate in a state where the opening shape of the anode mask is set to the value determined in the sixth step, the opening shape of the cylindrical portion of the regulation plate is set to the value determined in the seventh step, the distance between the rectangular substrate and the anode is set to the value determined in the eighth step, and the distance between the rectangular substrate and the regulation plate is set to the value determined in the ninth step.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45455
- Patent Class: 205.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12314143', '15182469', '13443149', '14919002', '12458260']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7231221975223564
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5035548806827262
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7011654658383933
- Mean Citation Score: 202.203306
- Max Citation Score: 211.36937000000003
- Similarity Product: 120.55763019840956

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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