PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15988113
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["355", "067000"]

Abstract:
An optical imaging arrangement includes an optical projection system, a support structure system and a control device. The optical projection system includes a group of optical elements supported by the support structure system and configured to transfer, in an exposure process using exposure light along an exposure light path, an image of a pattern of a mask onto a substrate. The group of optical elements includes a first optical element and a second optical element and the control device includes a sensor device and an active device. The sensor device is functionally associated to the first optical element and is configured to capture mechanical disturbance information representative of a mechanical disturbance acting on the first optical element in at least one degree of freedom up to all six degrees of freedom.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 15 , wherein at least one of the following holds:\n the control information is established using a numerical model of a modeled part of the optical imaging arrangement, the modeled part comprises at least the first optical element, a capturing location at which the mechanical disturbance information is captured, and a disturbance path along which the mechanical disturbance propagates from the capturing location to the first optical element, and the mechanical numerical model is representative of a geometric alteration in a position and/or an orientation and/or a geometry of the first optical element in response to the mechanical disturbance at the capturing location; the control information is established using an optical model representative of an imaging error alteration of the imaging error based on a geometric alteration of the first optical element in response to the mechanical disturbance; the control information is established using imaging error alteration information representative of an alteration of the imaging error in response to a defined mechanical excitation of the first optical element, the defined mechanical excitation is generated using at least one actuator device of the support structure system the defined mechanical excitation is a sinusoidal excitation and/or having an excitation frequency of 0.05 Hz to 1000 Hz, and the first optical element has a first order bending resonant frequency and the excitation frequency ranging from 0.05 Hz to two thirds of the first order bending resonant frequency; and the control information is established using correcting control signal information representative of the correcting control signal based on an imaging error alteration of the imaging error.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 51.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22581
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13229114', '11985884', '14138987', '14138639', '15057491']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7055475935330805
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4673850334892306
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6817313375286955
- Mean Citation Score: 166.36185800000004
- Max Citation Score: 183.48776
- Similarity Product: 134.22123624427795

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

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