PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16268034
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["355", "030000"]

Abstract:
In a carrier system, a chuck unit is used to hold a placed wafer from above, and vertical-motion pins use suction to hold the wafer from below. Then, the chuck unit and the vertical-motion pins are subsequently lowered until a bottom surface of the wafer comes into contact with a wafer table. During the lowering, the holding force exerted by the chuck unit and the arrangement of chuck members are optimally adjusted such that, as a result of the restraint of the wafer by the chuck unit and the vertical-motion pins, localized surplus-restraint is imparted to the wafer, and warping does not occur.

Claim (Index 17):
A carrier system that carries in a plate-like object to a holding member provided with an object mounting surface on an upper surface, the system comprising:\n a suction unit having a base member and a plurality of gas flow holes that are provided at the base member and each generate a flow of gas around the object, the suction unit being vertically movable relative to the object mounting surface while supporting the object from above in a noncontact manner by a suction force with respect to the object generated by the flow of gas; a support section that is provided at the holding member, and is vertically movable relative to the object mounting surface while supporting the object from below; and a controller that changes a shape of the object by varying suction forces with respect to the object generated by the flows of gas supplied via the plurality of gas flow holes, according to positions of the plurality of gas flow holes relative to the support section, during a period up until the object is loaded onto the object mounting surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94828
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14648280', '14648286', '15974965', '15637069', '13727281']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7203668560489753
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4855728275455669
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6968874531986345
- Mean Citation Score: 270.434876
- Max Citation Score: 285.01825
- Similarity Product: 242.46795320734384

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test