PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16107525
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["134", "149000"]

Abstract:
A system, apparatus, and method for processing substrates using acoustic energy. In one aspect, the invention can be a system for processing flat articles including a support for supporting the flat article and an acoustic energy treatment apparatus. The acoustic energy treatment apparatus may include a support arm and a plurality of transducer assemblies coupled thereto. The transducer assemblies may include a housing with a transducer coupled thereto, and the housings of the transducer assemblies may be arranged in an end-to-end manner. A trough may also be included that extends along at least a portion of a length of the transducer assemblies. The trough may serve as a reservoir that upon being filled and overflowed with a liquid allows the liquid to fluidly couple the transducer assemblies to the flat article.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for processing flat articles comprising:\n a support for rotatably supporting a flat article; an acoustic energy treatment apparatus comprising:\n a support arm extending along a first longitudinal axis from a proximal end to a distal end; \n a first transducer assembly coupled to the support arm and extending along a length, the first transducer assembly comprising a first transducer for generating acoustic energy; and \n a trough coupled to the support arm adjacent to the first transducer assembly, the trough extending along at least a portion of the length of the first transducer assembly, wherein a bottom surface of the trough lies in a plane that intersects the first transducer assembly; \n a liquid supply subsystem configured to introduce a liquid into the trough; and a controller operably coupled to the liquid supply subsystem, the controller configured to introduce the liquid into the trough so that the liquid fills and overflows the trough during operation of the first transducer assembly, the overflowing liquid forming a fluid coupling between the first transducer assembly and a surface of the flat article.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07353
- Patent Class: 134.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14490080', '12871286', '11625556', '13686697', '14281829']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8322868932522607
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5431900550586445
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.803377209432899
- Mean Citation Score: 246.696306
- Max Citation Score: 406.7745
- Similarity Product: 308.26762619769573

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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