PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15778549
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["438", "478000"]

Abstract:
Semiconductor wafers with an epitaxial layer are produced in a deposition chamber by placing a substrate wafer in the edge region of the rear side of the substrate wafer onto a placement area of a susceptor; loading the deposition chamber with the susceptor and the substrate wafer lying on the susceptor by contacting the susceptor and transporting the susceptor and the substrate wafer lying on the susceptor from a load lock chamber into the deposition chamber; depositing an epitaxial layer on the substrate wafer; and unloading the deposition chamber by contacting the susceptor and transporting the susceptor and a semiconductor wafer with epitaxial layer, the semiconductor wafer having been produced in the course of depositing the epitaxial layer and lying on the susceptor, from the deposition chamber into the load lock chamber.

Claim (Index 14):
An apparatus for producing a semiconductor wafer with an epitaxial layer, comprising:\n a deposition chamber; a load lock chamber; a susceptor having a placement area for placing a substrate wafer in an the edge region of the rear side of the substrate wafer; lift elements in the load lock chamber for raising and lowering the susceptor and a substrate wafer or semiconductor wafer with an epitaxial layer lying on the susceptor by contacting of the susceptor from below; and a transport tool, adapted to contact the susceptor, for transporting the susceptor and a substrate wafer lying on the susceptor from the load lock chamber into the deposition chamber and for transporting the susceptor and a semiconductor wafer with an epitaxial layer lying on the susceptor, from the deposition chamber into the load lock chamber; and lift pins for lifting the semiconductor wafer with epitaxial layer from the susceptor in the load lock chamber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.06667
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12386220', '11521856', '12692690', '13157250', '10572465']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8620426825607653
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5013928695281369
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8259777012575025
- Mean Citation Score: 226.82577
- Max Citation Score: 238.6669
- Similarity Product: 158.294448478508

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

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