PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944189
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["427", "058000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for depositing a thin film layer onto a flexible ferromagnetic substrate include a porous block in a deposition zone and a plurality of magnets embedded within the porous block. The magnets provide a downward force on a flexible ferromagnetic substrate being transported over the porous block, e.g., in a reel-to-reel system. Pressurized gas is forced upward through the porous block, providing an upward force that balances the downward force and supports the substrate at a desired height above the porous block. The substrate is thus held flat during transport through the deposition zone, enabling uniform deposition of a thin film layer.

Claim (Index 10):
A method of depositing a thin film n-type semiconductor layer onto a flexible substrate, comprising:\n transporting the substrate through a deposition zone; while transporting the substrate through the deposition zone, pulling the substrate toward a porous underlying surface with a downward magnetic force; while transporting the substrate through the deposition zone, balancing the downward magnetic force with an upward force provided by pressurized gas flowing upward through the porous underlying surface, wherein the pressurized gas is dispensed uniformly across the deposition zone, such that the upward force is equal at all points across the deposition zone; while transporting the substrate through the deposition zone, dispensing onto the substrate, at a first longitudinal position within the deposition zone, a first solution containing a metal selected from the group consisting of copper, silver, gold, zinc, cadmium, mercury, lead, boron, aluminum, gallium, indium, and thallium; and while transporting the substrate through the deposition zone, dispensing onto the substrate, at a second longitudinal position within the deposition zone, a second solution containing a chalcogen selected from the group consisting of oxygen, sulfur, selenium, and tellurium.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86667
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15458345', '15458262', '14108193', '14727602', '15047458']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7884923750293331
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4782087564175879
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7574640131681587
- Mean Citation Score: 139.82338399999998
- Max Citation Score: 149.26286000000005
- Similarity Product: 104.90455895071749

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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