PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15946293
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["438", "462000"]

Abstract:
There is provided a dividing method for dividing a plate-shaped workpiece. The dividing method includes: a starting point region forming step of forming a starting point region serving as a starting point of division along a planned dividing line set on the workpiece; a heating step of heating the workpiece after performing the starting point region forming step; a cooling step of cooling the workpiece after performing the heating step; a dividing step of dividing the workpiece along the starting point region by applying a force to the workpiece after performing the cooling step; and a sheet affixing step of affixing an expanding sheet to the workpiece before performing the dividing step; the dividing step applying the force to the workpiece by expanding the expanding sheet.

Claim (Index 1):
A dividing method for dividing a plate-shaped workpiece, the dividing method comprising:\n a starting point region forming step of forming a starting point region serving as a starting point of division along a planned dividing line set on the workpiece; a heating step of heating the workpiece after performing said starting point region forming step; a cooling step of cooling the workpiece after performing said heating step; a dividing step of dividing the workpiece along the starting point region by applying a force to the workpiece after performing said cooling step; and a sheet affixing step of affixing an expanding sheet to the workpiece before performing said dividing step; said dividing step applying the force to the workpiece by expanding the expanding sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.11628
- Patent Class: 438.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13048465', '15938832', '12874344', '11362389', '11047619']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8454083193151046
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4901753903166498
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8098850264152592
- Mean Citation Score: 169.787906
- Max Citation Score: 181.50471
- Similarity Product: 118.6221271663928

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

Dataset: test