PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15879364
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "774000"]

Abstract:
In order to inhibit forming cracks under a pad opening during ball bonding without increasing a chip size, a protective film includes a pad opening that exposes a part of a topmost layer metal film. A second metal film provided under the pad opening has a ring shape that defines a rectangular opening under the pad opening. The opening edge of the opening in the second metal film extends inwardly beyond the edge of the overlying pad opening.

Claim (Index 9):
In combination: a semiconductor device having a pad opening; and a ball bonder for bonding wire to the semiconductor device in the pad opening;\n wherein the semiconductor device comprises: a semiconductor substrate; a first insulating film formed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate; a first metal film formed on the first insulating film; a second insulating film formed on the first metal film; a second metal film formed on the second insulating film and having a ring shape defining a rectangular opening that extends through the second metal film; first conductive vias extending through the second insulating film to electrically connect the first metal film and the second metal film; a third insulating film formed on the second metal film; a topmost layer metal film formed on the third insulating film; second conductive vias extending through the third insulating film to connect the second metal film and the topmost layer metal film; and a protective film formed on the topmost layer metal film and having a pad opening formed therein that exposes a part of a surface of the topmost layer metal film, wherein the first metal film is connected to the semiconductor substrate through contacts formed in the first insulating film under the topmost layer metal film, the rectangular opening is located entirely inside the pad opening in plan view, and all of the second conductive vias that connect the first part of the second metal film and the topmost layer metal film being located outside the pad opening in plan view, and wherein the ball bonder comprises: a capillary through which a wire is fed for bonding to the topmost layer metal film of the semiconductor device, the capillary having a tip through which the wire is fed, and the tip having a beveled corner having a width smaller than a width of the opening in the second metal film of the semiconductor device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82222
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11046697', '12540043', '12038060', '15621745', '15245298']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9243437417238172
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4761797500578397
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8795273425572195
- Mean Citation Score: 202.790404
- Max Citation Score: 209.23453
- Similarity Product: 172.90536321599362

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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