PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15901960
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["156", "345550"]

Abstract:
The substrate holding/rotating device includes a plurality of movable pins each having a support portion in contact with a peripheral edge portion of the substrate to support the substrate, and a rotation unit which rotates the plurality of movable pins around the rotation axis, a support portion of each of the movable pins included in a first pin group is disposed so as to move between a first hold position included hold positions, the first hold position close to a rotation axis and a second hold position included the hold positions, the second hold position far apart from the first hold position to one in a circumferential direction and also so as to move between the first and second hold positions and an open position far apart from the rotation axis.

Claim (Index 17):
A substrate processing method which is executed in a substrate processing apparatus including a substrate holding/rotating device which rotates a substrate around a predetermined rotation axis along a vertical direction, while holding the substrate horizontally,\n the substrate holding/rotating device which includes a plurality of movable pins which are arranged along a circumference at a center of a predetermined rotation axis extending along a vertical direction, that is, movable pins each having a support portion in contact with a peripheral edge portion of the substrate to support the substrate, wherein the plurality of movable pins include a first pin group including at least three movable pins and a second pin group including at least three movable pins, where the support portion of each of the movable pins included in the first pin group is at the hold position and the support portion of each of the movable pins included in the second pin group is at the open position, the substrate can be supported by each of the movable pins included in the first pin group, and where the support portion of each of the movable pins included in the second pin group is at the hold position and also the support portion of each of the movable pins included in the first pin group is at the open position, the substrate can be supported by each of the movable pins included in the second pin group, the substrate processing method comprising: a substrate holding step in which the substrate is held in a horizontal posture by the substrate holding/rotating device; a processing step by processing liquid in which a processing liquid is supplied to a principal surface of the substrate to process the substrate, while the substrate held by the substrate holding/rotating device is rotated around the rotation axis; a first circumferential direction movement step in which the support portion of each of the movable pins included in the first pin group is moved in the circumferential direction from a predetermined first hold position included at a hold position the first hold position close to the rotation axis to a predetermined second hold position included at the hold position the second hold position close to the rotation axis and far apart the first hold position to one in the circumferential direction, and also so as to move between the first and second hold positions and an open position far apart the rotation axis; and a first movement step in which, after completion of the first circumferential direction movement step, the support portion of each of the movable pins included in the second pin group is moved from the open position to the hold position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51852
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15270530', '15271642', '14891522', '12623582', '14632500']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8995048799753782
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5242975747245612
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8619841494502966
- Mean Citation Score: 260.625646
- Max Citation Score: 349.12244
- Similarity Product: 288.66258671625616

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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