PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15893977
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["073", "588000"]

Abstract:
An inspection system for determining the efficacy and veracity of a bond-line, comprising: a robotic arm assembly providing a gimbal mount for enabling linear and rotary translation about multiple axes; an ultrasonic transducer affixed to the gimbal mount of the robotic arm assembly and comprising a planar array of transducer elements, each transducer element capable of transmitting and receiving reflected ultrasonic energy indicative of changes in acoustic impedance within the bond-line. The reflected energy of each transducer element provides acquired bond-line data indicative of the efficacy of the bond-line while select transducer elements produce orientation data indicative of the orientation of the planar array relative to the contour of the bonded joint. The bond-line and orientation data are combined to determine whether the direction of the transmitted pulse should be altered to validate the bond-line data.

Claim (Index 16):
A method for inspecting a bond-line of a bonded part, comprising the steps of:\n configuring a robotic arm assembly to gimbal mount an ultrasonic transducer to effect linear and rotary translation about multiple axes, the ultrasonic transducer comprising a planar array of multiple transducer elements; measuring changes in acoustic impedance within the bond-line by transmitting/receiving reflected ultrasonic energy through the bond-line, the ultrasonic energy indicative of the efficacy of the bond-line; measuring changes in acoustic impedance received by select transducer elements of the ultrasonic transducer, the select transducer elements developing orientation data of the ultrasonic transducer relative to a surface of the bonded part; using the orientation data collected by the select transducer elements and contour data of the bond-line to determine whether additional bond-line data should be collected to validate the efficacy of the bond-line.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93243
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15068169', '14499806', '10950865', '14809522', '12194000']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6808839402342581
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4673092650039726
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6595264727112295
- Mean Citation Score: 155.81399399999995
- Max Citation Score: 172.67763
- Similarity Product: 133.56216801450847

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

Dataset: test