PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16268034
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["355", "030000"]

Abstract:
In a carrier system, a chuck unit is used to hold a placed wafer from above, and vertical-motion pins use suction to hold the wafer from below. Then, the chuck unit and the vertical-motion pins are subsequently lowered until a bottom surface of the wafer comes into contact with a wafer table. During the lowering, the holding force exerted by the chuck unit and the arrangement of chuck members are optimally adjusted such that, as a result of the restraint of the wafer by the chuck unit and the vertical-motion pins, localized surplus-restraint is imparted to the wafer, and warping does not occur.

Claim (Index 26):
A carry-in method of carrying in a plate-like object to a holding member provided with an object mounting surface on an upper surface, the method comprising:\n carrying the object to above the object mounting surface of the holding member located at a predetermined carry-in position; suctioning a surface of the object from above in a noncontact manner, with a suction member; (i) supporting a part of a center section area of an other surface of the object from below, with a support section that is provided at the holding member and vertically movable, the other surface being on a side opposite to the surface of the object suctioned by the suction member, and also (ii) weakening the suction force by the suction member with respect to a first area of the surface of the object, compared to the suction force with respect to a second area of the surface of the object, the first area corresponding to the center section area that includes a supporting point by the support section, and the second area being on an outer circumference side of the first area; and moving downward the suction member and the support section toward the object mounting surface in a state of maintaining a suctioning state of the object by the suction member and a supporting state of the object by the support section.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94828
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14648280', '14648286', '15974965', '15637069', '13727281']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7202014808994408
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4867182983649224
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.696853162645989
- Mean Citation Score: 270.434876
- Max Citation Score: 285.01825
- Similarity Product: 237.628056688428

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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