PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16108528
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["204", "275100"]

Abstract:
Plating bath and well structures and methods are described to stop the organic compounds present in plating reservoir wells or bath solution from rising, i.e., climbing up the reservoir wall. An electroplating apparatus includes a vessel holding a liquid solution including metal plating material and an organic species, and a method of operating an electroplating apparatus. The apparatus is designed with plating bath and structures and methods to stop the organic compounds present in plating reservoir wells or bath solution from rising, i.e., climbing or wicking up the inner surfaces of reservoir walls, and to wash them back down on a continuous or cyclical basis in order to maintain a concentration of organic compounds in the plating solution within upper and lower specification limits.

Claim (Index 9):
An electroplating apparatus comprising:\n a vessel having an inner wall and an outer wall defining a space therebetween, the inner wall configured to hold a liquid solution of a metal plating material and including an organic species, the liquid solution contained within the vessel at a first level below a top rim of the vessel; an opening formed in the inner wall surface below a top rim of the vessel; and a source for providing liquid solution in the defined space, wherein the liquid solution from the source exits the formed opening to create a flow of the liquid solution over the inner wall and on each inner wall surface, the solution flow of a force suitable to rinse the organics back into the tank, wherein a relative concentration of organic species in the liquid solution is maintained.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95588
- Patent Class: 204.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14523061', '12179352', '14151532', '10154426', '12401113']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7560933753414616
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5677010150287259
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7372541393101881
- Mean Citation Score: 256.094968
- Max Citation Score: 469.40598
- Similarity Product: 367.46536307535416

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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