PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15901955
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["216", "090000"]

Abstract:
A substrate processing apparatus includes a processing liquid distributing member that partitions, by an inner wall surface, at least part of a processing liquid distribution passage communicating with a discharge port, a processing liquid supplying unit that supplies the high-temperature processing liquid having a higher temperature than a room temperature to the processing liquid distribution passage, a temperature changing unit arranged to heat or cool an outer wall surface of the processing liquid distributing member from the outside to change a temperature of the processing liquid distributing member, and a controller that executes an equilibrium temperature maintaining step of maintaining the inner wall surface of the processing liquid distributing member at a thermal equilibrium temperature by controlling the temperature changing unit in a state where no processing liquid is supplied from the processing liquid supplying unit to the processing liquid distribution passage.

Claim (Index 16):
The substrate processing method according to  claim 15 , wherein the equilibrium temperature maintaining step includes:\n a first heating step of heating the outer wall surface in order to raise the temperature of the outer wall surface to a higher temperature than the thermal equilibrium temperature; a cooling step of, subsequent to the first heating step, cooling the outer wall surface in order to lower the temperature of the outer wall surface to a lower temperature than the temperature of the processing liquid; and a second heating step of, subsequent to the cooling step, heating the outer wall surface so that the inner wall surface of the processing liquid distributing member is maintained at the thermal equilibrium temperature and the temperature of the outer wall surface is maintained at the predetermined temperature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.3871
- Patent Class: 216.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15183234', '15831924', '15044452', '15051034', '15019246']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7891402355840229
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4922248045784004
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7594486924834607
- Mean Citation Score: 228.494532
- Max Citation Score: 237.29619
- Similarity Product: 171.5426116733229

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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