PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916745
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["356", "051000"]

Abstract:
A vacuum valve system having a valve seat and a valve closure for closing the valve opening. At least two sealing faces are provided, a first sealing face is the valve seat around the valve opening, and a second sealing face is the valve closure. A drive unit coupled to the valve closure designed so that the valve closure can be adjusted to provide respective valve opening states and is movable from an open position to a closed position, in which the second sealing face is pressed in the direction of the first sealing face and the valve opening in a gastight manner. The vacuum valve system has an optical sensor unit, designed to detect an optical measurement signal and an optical detection axis of the optical sensor unit oriented so that the measurement signal can be detected, and can be produced in a test position.

Claim (Index 1):
A vacuum valve system comprising a vacuum valve for controlling a volume flow or mass flow and/or for gastight sealing off a process volume, wherein the vacuum valve has\n a valve seat, which runs around a valve opening defining an opening axis, a valve closure, in particular a valve disc, for closing the valve opening in a substantially gas-tight manner, and at least two sealing faces, wherein\n a first sealing face of the at least two sealing faces is provided by the valve seat and runs around the valve opening, and \n a second sealing face of the at least two sealing faces is provided by the valve closure and is formed correspondingly to the first sealing face, \n a drive unit coupled to the valve closure, which drive unit is designed in such a way that the valve closure\n can be varied and adjusted in a defined manner in order to provide respective valve opening states and \n is movable from an open position, in which the valve closure at least partially releases the valve opening, into a closed position, in which the second sealing face is pressed in the direction of the first sealing face and the valve opening is closed in a substantially gastight manner, and back, wherein the vacuum valve system has an optical sensor unit, wherein the optical sensor unit is designed to detect an optical measurement signal and is arranged in such a way, and an optical detection axis of the optical sensor unit is oriented in such a way that the measurement signal with respect to at least part of one of the sealing faces can be detected, wherein the measurement signal can be generated in a test position of the valve closure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 37.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34848
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15914410', '14822790', '10917641', '14669108', '14235409']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.657489852991707
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4659548627580879
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6383363539683451
- Mean Citation Score: 181.256376
- Max Citation Score: 198.96634
- Similarity Product: 178.30447876116398

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