PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16139545
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["250", "492210"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, an automatic sample preparation apparatus includes: a charged particle beam irradiation optical system configured to perform irradiation with a charged particle beam; a sample stage configured to move with the sample placed thereon; a sample piece transfer device for holding and transferring the sample piece separated and extracted from the sample; a sample piece holder-fixing bed configured to hold a sample piece holder to which the sample piece is transferred; a gas supply portion configured to irradiate gas forming a deposition film with the charged particle beam; and a computer configured to control the charged particle beam irradiation optical system, the sample piece transfer device, and the gas supply portion to transfer and stop the sample piece held by the sample piece transfer device with a gap between the sample piece holder and the sample piece, and connect the sample piece to the sample piece holder.

Claim (Index 4):
The automatic sample preparation apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the computer is configured to stop the formation of the deposition film in a case where the conduction between the sample piece transfer device and the sample piece holder is detected.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.63934
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15317030', '15468290', '15448308', '15871767', '14833563']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7542287911351102
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.562735632374267
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.735079475259026
- Mean Citation Score: 382.355016
- Max Citation Score: 450.40634000000006
- Similarity Product: 343.66012311342126

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

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