PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16071899
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["257", "684000"]

Abstract:
There is provided a method of bonding a first substrate and a second substrate, the method comprising: providing an aluminium (Al) connection having a first width on one side of a first substrate; providing a germanium (Ge) connection having a second width on one side of a second substrate, wherein the second width is larger than the first width; and bonding the Al connection on the first substrate and the Ge connection on the second substrate by eutectic bonding of at least a portion of the Al connection and at least a portion of the Ge connection to form an Al—Ge eutectic melt, wherein the Al—Ge eutectic melt is confined within the second width of the Ge connection.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of bonding a first substrate and a second substrate by a Al\u2014Ge bond, the method comprising:\n providing an aluminium (Al) connection having a first width on one side of a first substrate; providing a germanium (Ge) connection having a second width on one side of a second substrate, wherein the second width of the Ge connection is larger than the first width of the Al connection by a factor of at least 1.1 times and wherein geranium is only deposited on the Ge connection; and bonding the Al connection on the first substrate and the Ge connection on the second substrate by eutectic bonding of at least a portion of the Al connection and at least a portion of the Ge connection to form an Al\u2014Ge eutectic melt, wherein the Al\u2014Ge eutectic melt is confined within the second width of the Ge connection in response to the Ge connection being larger than the first width of the Al connection by a factor of at least 1.1 times thereby significantly reducing splashing of the Al\u2014Ge eutectic melt and ensuring high shear strength and hermeticity of the Al\u2014Ge bond.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.86667
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15321701', '13509163', '12117264', '15364478', '13342129']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9116882869086234
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4603498302210001
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8665544412398611
- Mean Citation Score: 159.857706
- Max Citation Score: 165.57695
- Similarity Product: 134.43544237715602

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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