PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15910163
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["438", "014000"]

Abstract:
A front surface of a semiconductor wafer is rapidly heated by irradiation of a flash of light. Temperature of the front surface of the semiconductor wafer is measured at predetermined intervals after the irradiation of the flash of light, and is sequentially accumulated to acquire a temperature profile. From the temperature profile, an average value and a standard deviation are each calculated as a characteristic value. It is determined that the semiconductor wafer is cracked when an average value of the temperature profile deviates from the range of ±5σ from a total average of temperature profiles of a plurality of semiconductor wafers or when a standard deviation of the temperature profile deviates from the range of 5σ from the total average thereof of the plurality of semiconductor wafers.

Claim (Index 8):
The heat treatment method according to  claim 2 , wherein\n a crack of said substrate is determined in said step (c) by comparing a reference temperature profile acquired by measuring temperature of a front surface a substrate treated prior to said substrate with said temperature profile.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35088
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13468408', '13366414', '14361000', '13790313', '15142830']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8900562132557287
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5196747097628224
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8530180629064381
- Mean Citation Score: 312.698946
- Max Citation Score: 322.72284
- Similarity Product: 244.1277887082053

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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