PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977124
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["134", "149000"]

Abstract:
A top plate when located at a first position is held by an opposing-member holder, and the top plate when located at a second position is held by a substrate holder and rotated along with the substrate holder. In a substrate processing apparatus, a first processing liquid nozzle located at a supply position inside a to-be-held part of the top plate supplies a first processing liquid through an opposing-member opening to a substrate and is moved from the supply position to its retracted position, and a second processing liquid nozzle is moved from its retracted position to the supply position and supplies a second processing liquid through the opposing-member opening to the substrate. This configuration suppresses or prevents mixture of multiple types of processing liquids, as compared with the case where multiple types of processing liquids are sequentially supplied from a single processing liquid nozzle.

Claim (Index 1):
A substrate processing apparatus for processing a substrate, comprising:\n a substrate holder for holding a substrate in a horizontal position; an opposing member that opposes an upper surface of said substrate, has an opposing-member opening in a central part, and has a tubular to-be-held part that protrudes upward from the periphery of said opposing-member opening; an opposing-member conveying mechanism for holding said to-be-held part of said opposing member and moving said opposing member relative to said substrate holder between a first position and a second position in an up-down direction; a processing liquid nozzle located on the inner side of said to-be-held part and for ejecting a processing liquid through said opposing-member opening toward said upper surface of said substrate; a substrate rotation mechanism for rotating said substrate along with said substrate holder about a central axis pointing in said up-down direction; and a gas supply part for supplying a gas to a space between said opposing member and said substrate, said opposing member that is located at said first position is held by said opposing-member conveying mechanism and spaced above from said substrate holder, and said opposing member that is located at said second position is held by said substrate holder and rotated along with said substrate holder by said substrate rotation mechanism, and said gas supply part supplies a gas to a gap between an inner surface of said to-be-held part of said opposing member and an outer surface of said processing liquid nozzle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.57627
- Patent Class: 134.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15172613', '15449188', '15107035', '15129875', '15423821']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8195374972163488
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.529506468180756
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7905343943127896
- Mean Citation Score: 282.353386
- Max Citation Score: 351.47427000000016
- Similarity Product: 324.2689153922797

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test