PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16013189
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["438", "005000"]

Abstract:
A method is provided for controlling a temperature of a heater arranged in a plasma processing apparatus that converts a gas into plasma using a high frequency power and performs a plasma process on a workpiece with the plasma. The plasma processing apparatus includes a processing chamber that can be depressurized, a mounting table that is arranged within the processing chamber, an electrostatic chuck that is arranged on the mounting table and electrostatically attracts the workpiece, and a heater that is arranged within or near the electrostatic chuck and is divided into a plurality of heater zones. The method includes adjusting a control temperature of the heater with respect to each of the heater zones, and correcting a temperature interference from an adjacent heater zone of each of the heater zones with respect to a setting temperature of each of the heater zones upon adjusting the control temperature.

Claim (Index 4):
The temperature control method according to  claim 3 , wherein the method further comprises:\n comparing the calculated current value for the heater of each of the heater zones with a predetermined threshold value; and determining that the electrostatic chuck is due for replacement when at least one current value of the calculated current value for the heater of each of the heater zones is below the predetermined threshold value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46032
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14367305', '15021326', '10062395', '14179339', '14594648']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8535445843494719
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5111764040360132
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8193077663181261
- Mean Citation Score: 227.92796
- Max Citation Score: 240.04817000000003
- Similarity Product: 159.36200358294963

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

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