PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16368278
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["355", "030000"]

Abstract:
A projection exposure apparatus for semiconductor lithography has a mirror arrangement that is exposed to thermal loads in operation. The mirror arrangement includes a mirror carrier having an optically active surface arranged on a top surface of the mirror carrier. A cooling system is integrated into the mirror carrier. The cooling system has cooling lines through which a cooling fluid circulates. The cooling system is designed so that the thermal load introduced into the mirror carrier via the optically active surface is dissipated at least partially into a rear region remote from the top surface of the mirror carrier.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus, comprising:\n a mirror carrier comprising a cooling system integrated therein, the cooling system comprising:\n cooling lines; \n an inlet region adjoining a surface of the mirror carrier, the inlet region comprising a cooling fluid feed line; \n an outlet region arranged at a distance from the surface of the mirror carrier, the outlet region comprising a cooling fluid drain line; and \n a connecting line connecting the inlet and outlet regions; \n a mirror arrangement comprising an optically active surface arranged on the surface of the mirror carrier, wherein:\n the apparatus is configured so that, during use of the apparatus when a cooling fluid circulates through the cooling lines, the cooling fluid dissipates a thermal load introduced into the mirror carrier via the optically active surface of the mirror, at least partially into a region of the mirror carrier which is remote from the surface of the mirror carrier; \n the connecting lines are configured to throttle flow of cooling fluid between the inlet and outlet regions; and \n the apparatus is a semiconductor lithography projection exposure apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89091
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14024286', '11934509', '15393702', '09600694', '14031464']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6698666355101053
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4578818841756225
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6486681603766571
- Mean Citation Score: 156.639704
- Max Citation Score: 188.25447
- Similarity Product: 149.84737211934325

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

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