PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16200043
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["414", "222010"]

Abstract:
To reduce pumping time of a vacuum treatment chamber served by a transport arrangement in a transport chamber. The vacuum treatment chamber is split in a workpiece treatment compartment and in a pumping compartment in mutual free flow communication and arranged opposite each other with respect to a movement path of the transport arrangement serving the vacuum treatment chamber. The pumping compartment allows providing a pumping port of a flow cross-section area freely selectable independently from the geometry of the treatment compartment.

Claim (Index 4):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein said controllable seal comprises a drivingly extendable and retractable tubular bellow, one end thereof being sealingly mounted in said pumping compartment, the other end thereof being controllably movable about said opening to seal off said opening, said pumping port being located in an area of said pumping compartment which is in flow communication with the inside of said bellow.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84783
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13976314', '15164262', '13997801', '14452883', '10919582']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8450792341867976
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5812457593598443
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8186958867041023
- Mean Citation Score: 310.967976
- Max Citation Score: 468.3285
- Similarity Product: 466.2189413341283

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

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