PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882290
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["250", "39600R"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for improving the uniformity of an ion beam is disclosed. The apparatus includes a heating element to heat an edge of the suppression electrode that is located furthest from the suppression aperture. In operation, the edge of the suppression electrode nearest to the suppression electrode may be heated by the ion beam. This heat may cause the suppression electrode to distort, affecting the uniformity of the ion beam. By heating the distal edge of the suppression electrode, the thermal distortion of the suppression electrode can be controlled. In other embodiments, the distal edge of the suppression electrode is heated to create a more uniform ion beam. By monitoring the uniformity of the ion beam downstream from the suppression electrode, such as by use of a beam uniformity profiler, a controller can adjust the heat applied to the distal edge to achieve the desired ion beam uniformity.

Claim (Index 9):
The apparatus of  claim 6 , wherein the thermal sensors are disposed on the first electrode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.59677
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15415944', '15416131', '11648269', '11452003', '14050764']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7302764429358061
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.544676230103674
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.711716421652593
- Mean Citation Score: 240.295006
- Max Citation Score: 395.9502
- Similarity Product: 295.02165286145214

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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