PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15966569
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["134", "019000"]

Abstract:
A substrate processing apparatus includes a heater having an infrared lamp and a housing for heating an upper surface of a substrate held by a substrate holding mechanism with the heater in opposed relation to the upper surface. A heater cleaning method includes locating the heater at a position above a lower nozzle in opposed relation to a first spout of the lower nozzle, the lower nozzle being in opposed relation to a lower surface of the substrate held by the substrate holding mechanism, and a lower cleaning liquid spouting step of supplying a cleaning liquid to the lower nozzle to spout the cleaning liquid upward from the first spout with no substrate being held by the substrate holding mechanism to thereby supply the cleaning liquid to an outer surface of the housing of the heater located at the heater cleaning position.

Claim (Index 5):
A heater cleaning method for cleaning a heater which has an infrared lamp and a housing accommodating the infrared lamp, the heater being disposed for heating a major surface of a substrate at a treatment position at which the heater is opposed to the major surface of the substrate, the heater cleaning method comprising:\n a step of locating the heater at a cleaning position different from the treatment position, wherein the cleaning position is located such that at least a portion of the heater is accommodated by an accommodating member including a bottomed storage container capable of storing a cleaning liquid; and a step of supplying a cleaning liquid to an outer surface of the housing located at the cleaning position by immersing the outer surface of the housing in the cleaning liquid stored in the bottomed storage container.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80769
- Patent Class: 134.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14386685', '14493908', '13777128', '14456007', '14039695']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8516113817409707
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5671417180405569
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8231644153709293
- Mean Citation Score: 333.517004
- Max Citation Score: 488.16763
- Similarity Product: 368.0426657897585

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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