PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16166767
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["451", "044000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a polishing apparatus and a polishing method for polishing a substrate, such as a wafer, and more particularly to a polishing apparatus and a polishing method for polishing an edge portion of a wafer with use of a polishing tape. The polishing apparatus includes a substrate holder ( 1 ) configured to hold and rotate a substrate (W), and a polishing unit ( 7 ) configured to polish an edge portion of the substrate (W) with use of a polishing tape ( 5 ). The polishing unit ( 7 ) includes: a disk head ( 12 ) having a circumferential surface for supporting the polishing tape ( 5 ); and a head moving device ( 50 ) configured to move the disk head ( 12 ) in a tangential direction of the substrate (W) and to bring the polishing tape ( 5 ) on the circumferential surface of the disk head ( 12 ) into contact with the edge portion of the substrate (W).

Claim (Index 18):
The polishing apparatus according to  claim 9 , wherein the polishing unit further includes:\n a first reel and a second reel holding both ends of the polishing tape; and a first motor and a second motor configured to generate torques for rotating the first reel and the second reel in opposite directions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.08333
- Patent Class: 451.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15118184', '13073218', '14034468', '14618426', '13308857']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7817863277542508
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.537798563670026
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7573875513458284
- Mean Citation Score: 303.867702
- Max Citation Score: 412.90018
- Similarity Product: 357.24526493227364

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