PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16029847
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["204", "298270"]

Abstract:
An apparatus includes a row of substrate transfer devices  3  which can deliver a wafer W within a transfer chamber; and rows of process modules PM, arranged at right and left sides of the row of the substrate transfer devices along the row, configured to perform processes to the wafer W. The rows of the process modules PM are arranged such that each of the processes can be performed by at least two process modules PM. Thus, when a single process module PM cannot be used, the wafer W can be rapidly transferred to another process module PM which can perform the same process as performed in the corresponding process module. Therefore, even when the single process module PM cannot be used, the processes can be continued to the wafers W without stopping an operation of the apparatus, so that the number of wasted wafers W can be reduced.

Claim (Index 1):
A substrate processing apparatus that performs a series of processes to a substrate in a vacuum atmosphere by using multiple process modules in sequence, the substrate processing apparatus comprising:\n a transfer chamber in a vacuum atmosphere; a row of substrate transfer devices each arranged within the transfer chamber and each configured to be rotatable horizontally and movable back and forth; rows of process modules arranged at right and left sides of the row of the substrate transfer devices along the row, each of the process modules performing a process to the substrate; standby decompression chambers arranged at one ends of the row of substrate transfer devices; and a control unit configured to control a transfer of the substrate, wherein the multiple process modules include a process module, having a sidewall at a side of the row of the substrate transfer devices protruded toward a space between the adjacent substrate transfer devices, configured to deliver the substrate with respect to any one of the substrate transfer devices at a front side in an inclination direction of the sidewall and a rear side in the inclination direction thereof, adjacent substrate transfer devices are partitioned by a gate valve, a substrate transfer mechanism configured to transfer the substrate between the adjacent substrate transfer devices is provided in the vicinity of the gate valve, the substrate transfer mechanism includes an elevating device which is provided between adjacent substrate transfer devices and is configured to vertically move, and the adjacent substrate transfer devices at both sides of the elevating device deliver the substrate with respect to the elevating device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25
- Patent Class: 204.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14412258', '11300309', '13980474', '12083015', '12920145']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7369143074592651
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5567793543131542
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.718900812144654
- Mean Citation Score: 232.17672
- Max Citation Score: 414.37625
- Similarity Product: 405.9331060849876

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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