PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15915792
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["414", "225010"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a container to contain wafers, and supporting tables provided in the container so as to be stacked on one another, and each including a supporting face that comes into contact with a wafer to support the wafer. The apparatus further includes supporting columns to join the supporting tables together and provided at positions where the supporting columns are contained inside outer circumferences of the supporting tables. The apparatus further includes a gas feeder to feed a gas to the wafers on the supporting tables, and a gas discharger to discharge the gas fed to the wafers on the supporting tables. Each of the supporting tables includes a first upper face as the supporting face, and a second upper face provided so as to surround the first upper face at a level higher than a level of the first upper face.

Claim (Index 9):
A wafer conveying apparatus of conveying a first wafer onto a first supporting table in a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, comprising:\n a first arm configured to move while retaining the first wafer in the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus; a second arm configured to elevate or lower the first wafer in the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus; and a controller configured to control the first and second arms, wherein the controller controls the first and second arms such that: the second arm moves to a lower region of the first supporting table, the first arm retains the first wafer to move to an upper region of the first supporting table, the second arm comes into contact with the first wafer via an opening provided in the first supporting table to elevate the first wafer, the first arm is retracted from the upper region of the first supporting table after the first wafer is elevated, and the second arm lowers the first wafer to place the first wafer on the first supporting table.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45312
- Patent Class: 414.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11898490', '12350705', '15019271', '10617816', '10500278']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8158696672569549
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4652586403097804
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7808085645622375
- Mean Citation Score: 110.127044
- Max Citation Score: 112.44201
- Similarity Product: 73.81740678997457

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