PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16021640
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["134", "018000"]

Abstract:
In parallel with a substrate heating step, a liquid surface sensor is used to monitor the raising of an IPA liquid film. An organic solvent removing step is started in response to the raising of the IPA liquid film over the upper surface of the substrate. At the end of the organic solvent removing step, a visual sensor is used to determine whether or not IPA droplets remain on the upper surface of the substrate.

Claim (Index 1):
A substrate processing method of drying an upper surface of a substrate that is held horizontally, the substrate processing method comprising:\n a processing liquid supplying step of supplying processing liquid onto the upper surface of the substrate; a substrate heating step of heating the substrate to heat the processing liquid on the upper surface of the substrate; a processing liquid removing step of removing the processing liquid from the upper surface of the substrate; a processing liquid condition detecting step of detecting a condition of the processing liquid on the upper surface of the substrate in parallel with at least one of the processing liquid supplying step, the substrate heating step, and the processing liquid removing step; and a controlling step of controlling at least one of the processing liquid supplying step, the substrate heating step, and the processing liquid removing step based on a detection result in the processing liquid condition detecting step.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95122
- Patent Class: 134.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14632500', '14667769', '15471405', '15004361', '15388311']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8395226724633079
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5078841155158668
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8063588167685638
- Mean Citation Score: 247.986538
- Max Citation Score: 301.70267
- Similarity Product: 239.1804925033361

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

Dataset: test