PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15775606
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["216", "067000"]

Abstract:
A processing apparatus performs a predetermined process on an object to be processed by supplying halogen-based gas into a chamber in which a vacuum is maintained, to which chamber a member having an oxide film formed on a surface thereof is connected, or which chamber has an oxide film formed on a surface thereof, wherein the predetermined processing is performed on the target object once or a plurality of times in the chamber. Later, oxygen gas or dry air is supplied to the chamber to purge the chamber, and then the chamber is opened and exposed to the atmosphere.

Claim (Index 9):
A processing method in a processing apparatus, using a halogen-based gas, which performs a process on a target object by supplying a halogen-based gas into a chamber maintained in a vacuum state, the chamber having an oxide film on a surface thereof or being connected to a member having an oxide film on a surface thereof, the method comprising:\n performing the process on a target object in the chamber multiple times while maintaining the chamber in a vacuum state; and performing idling between the processes performed multiple times, wherein during said idling, oxygen gas or dry air is supplied into the chamber to purge the chamber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92727
- Patent Class: 216.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12149537', '11354836', '13262005', '13705712', '11376162']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7554390876489295
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4730656573994524
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7272017446239818
- Mean Citation Score: 185.792738
- Max Citation Score: 191.85799
- Similarity Product: 144.6547850833631

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

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