PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16083545
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["118", "715000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for subjecting a surface of a substrate to successive surface reactions of at least a first precursor and a second precursor according to the principles of atomic layer deposition includes a reaction chamber defining a reaction space, one or more gas inlets, one or more gas outlets and a plasma discharge electrode. The apparatus further includes an grounded grid sheet having openings and arranged within the reaction space opposite the plasma discharge electrode.

Claim (Index 31):
A method for subjecting a surface of a substrate to successive surface reactions of at least a first precursor and a second precursor according to the principles of atomic layer deposition in a reaction chamber having wall surfaces defining a reaction space inside the reaction chamber, the reaction chamber further comprising a plasma discharge electrode for generating an electric discharge to the reaction space, said method comprising:\n arranging the substrate into the reaction chamber opposite the plasma discharge electrode; supplying the at least first precursor and second precursor into the reaction space via one or more gas inlets; discharging the at least first precursor and second precursor from the reaction space via one or more gas outlets, wherein the method further comprises:\n supplying the at least first precursor and second precursor into the reaction space having a grounded grid sheet provided within the reaction space between the plasma discharge electrode and the substrate, the grid sheet having openings and being arranged opposite the plasma discharge electrode; \n generating plasma discharge with the plasma discharge electrode in the reaction space between the plasma discharge electrode and the grid sheet for forming active precursor radicals from the first precursor; and \n passing at least a portion of the active precursor radicals through the openings in the grid sheet into the reaction space between the substrate and grid sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58
- Patent Class: 118.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16311216', '14932742', '13102980', '12854818', '15458642']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8004104383795334
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4741395695732519
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7677833514989053
- Mean Citation Score: 183.974234
- Max Citation Score: 239.11191
- Similarity Product: 218.0785278292089

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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