PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16245917
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["355", "030000"]

Abstract:
Exposure apparatus exposes a substrate by irradiating the substrate with exposure light via a projection optical system and a liquid. The exposure apparatus is provided with a liquid immersion mechanism for supplying the liquid and recovering the liquid. The liquid immersion mechanism has an inclined surface, which is opposite to a surface of the substrate and is inclined with respect to the surface of the substrate, and a liquid recovering port of the liquid immersion mechanism is formed in the inclined surface. A flat portion is provided between the substrate and the projection optical system. A liquid immersion area can be maintained to be small.

Claim (Index 4):
The apparatus according to  claim 3 , wherein:\n the flange portion has a lower surface facing downward, and the supporting member supports the lower surface of the flange portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13936793', '15367348', '14823673', '15706244', '11597745']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.803180242758331
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.538275918423499
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7766898103248477
- Mean Citation Score: 383.020838
- Max Citation Score: 392.72476
- Similarity Product: 258.105562565806

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

Dataset: test