PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16191627
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["355", "030000"]

Abstract:
A connection arrangement for connecting an optical component of an optical imaging arrangement to a support unit of a support structure includes: a connecting element unit having a support interface end with support interface section; and a component interface end with a component interface section.

Claim (Index 15):
The connection arrangement according to  claim 1 , wherein:\n the connecting element unit is an athermal unit, which defines at least one direction of athermality and is configured to provide an athermality function by keeping a variation in a distance between the support interface and the component interface along the at least one direction of athermality below 0.1 \u03bcm; and at least one of the following holds:\n the support interface defines a support interface plane and the component interface defines a component interface plane, the component interface plane is substantially parallel to the support interface plane, the connecting element unit being configured such that, per Kelvin of temperature difference and a meter of distance between the support interface and the component interface along the force flow path, a distance between the support interface plane and the component interface plane varies by less than 10 \u03bcm; \n the support interface defines a support interface plane and the component interface defines a component interface plane, and the component interface plane, at least in a stationary state during the exposure operation of the optical imaging arrangement, substantially coincides with the support interface plane; and \n the connecting element unit, along the force flow path from the component interface to the support interface, has a first thermal expansion section thermally expanding in a first direction and a subsequent second thermal expansion section thermally expanding in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a length along the force flow path of the first and second thermal expansion section being selected to provide the athermality function.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84615
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15280272', '12015894', '14070702', '14138639', '11444191']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7068608964131992
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4842010181558561
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6845949085874649
- Mean Citation Score: 186.342684
- Max Citation Score: 225.3752
- Similarity Product: 155.91332709951402

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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