PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15959008
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["438", "781000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate are described herein. A vacuum multi-chamber deposition tool can include a degas chamber with both a heating mechanism and a variable frequency microwave source. The methods described herein use variable frequency microwave radiation to increased quality and speed of the degas process without damaging the various components.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for processing a substrate, comprising:\n positioning a substrate in a processing chamber, the substrate comprising a first surface; depositing an uncured layer comprising a polymer, an epoxy or combinations thereof over the first surface of the substrate; performing a soft-cure on the uncured layer, the soft-cure comprising heating the substrate or the processing chamber to a soft-cure temperature and setting the processing chamber to a soft-cure pressure to produce a soft-cured layer from the uncured layer; setting the processing chamber to a hard-cure pressure, the hard-cure pressure being under 100 mTorr; directing a source of microwave radiation toward the soft-cured layer, the source of microwave radiation producing microwave radiation at a selected frequency from a frequency range of less than 7 GHz; and delivering the microwave radiation at a variable frequency from the source of microwave radiation to the soft-cured layer to hard-cure at least the soft-cured layer at a hard-cure temperature, the variable frequency comprising two or more frequencies selected from the frequency range.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.32558
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14322484', '15399614', '13960236', '13506722', '14820152']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8610413975098504
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5422839740074525
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8291656551596106
- Mean Citation Score: 268.135406
- Max Citation Score: 392.44058
- Similarity Product: 345.035130835799

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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