PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16268034
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["355", "030000"]

Abstract:
In a carrier system, a chuck unit is used to hold a placed wafer from above, and vertical-motion pins use suction to hold the wafer from below. Then, the chuck unit and the vertical-motion pins are subsequently lowered until a bottom surface of the wafer comes into contact with a wafer table. During the lowering, the holding force exerted by the chuck unit and the arrangement of chuck members are optimally adjusted such that, as a result of the restraint of the wafer by the chuck unit and the vertical-motion pins, localized surplus-restraint is imparted to the wafer, and warping does not occur.

Claim (Index 25):
A carrier system that carries in a plate-like object to a holding member provided with an object mounting surface on an upper surface, the system comprising:\n a suction unit having a base member and a plurality of gas flow holes that are provided at the base member and each generate a flow of gas around the object, the suction unit being capable of suctioning a surface of the object, from above in a noncontact manner, that is carried to above the holding member located at a predetermined carry-in position, and the suction unit being vertically movable; a support section that is provided at the holding member, is vertically movable and is capable of supporting a part of a center section area of an other surface of the object from below, the other surface being on a side opposite to the surface of the object; and a drive device that moves the suction unit and the support section in at least vertical direction; an adjustment device having a gas supply device that supplies gas supplied via the plurality of gas flow holes, the adjustment device changing a shape of the object by adjusting suction forces with respect to the object generated by flows of gas supplied via the plurality of gas flow holes; and a controller that controls the adjustment device and the drive device, wherein the controller changes the shape of the object using the adjustment device, while controlling the drive device to move downward the suction unit and the support section toward the object mounting surface in a state of maintaining a holding state of the object by the flows of gas via the plurality of gas flow holes of the suction unit and a supporting state of the object by the support section.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94828
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14648280', '14648286', '15974965', '15637069', '13727281']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.720235115266218
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4864854564084784
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.696860149380444
- Mean Citation Score: 270.434876
- Max Citation Score: 285.01825
- Similarity Product: 238.6117876473964

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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