PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16039488
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["216", "084000"]

Abstract:
An upper processing liquid nozzle moves back and forth between a processing position above a substrate held on a spin chuck and a standby position outside a processing cup. Before a processing liquid is discharged from the upper processing liquid nozzle having moved to the processing position, a camera takes a discharge standard image of an imaging region including the tip of the upper processing liquid nozzle. Then, multiple monitor target images of the imaging region taken successively by the camera are compared sequentially to the discharge standard image to determine discharge of a processing liquid from the upper processing liquid nozzle. The discharge standard image is obtained for each process on a new target substrate. This eliminates influence of a substrate surface to appear as a background both of the monitor target image and the discharge standard image. Thus, discharge of a processing liquid can be detected reliably.

Claim (Index 8):
The substrate processing method according to  claim 4 , wherein position abnormality of said nozzle in said processing position is determined by comparing a second standard image and said first standard image, said second standard image being an image of said imaging region taken by said imaging part when said nozzle is placed in said processing position correctly.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16438
- Patent Class: 216.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15343911', '14854235', '15208085', '15665956', '12582860']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.785050317780572
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5009899678607859
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7566442827885933
- Mean Citation Score: 225.931564
- Max Citation Score: 244.2157
- Similarity Product: 160.2813133045077

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

Dataset: test