PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16041251
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["356", "612000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments pertain measuring the weld penetration depth, particularly in welding, drilling or machining processes carried out by means of a working laser beam, wherein a measurement light beam of a sensor system is coupled into a processing beam path of the working laser beam in a laser machining head and bundled or focused into a measurement light spot on the surface of a workpiece by means of focusing optics of the processing beam path. The measurement light beam reflected on the surface of the workpiece is then returned to a measurement and evaluation unit of the sensor system in order to obtain information on the distance of the surface of the workpiece from the laser machining head. In order to obtain a surface profile of the workpiece in the region of the vapor capillary, from which the position of the vapor capillary relative to the point of incidence of the working laser beam can be determined, the position of the measurement light spot on the surface of the workpiece is guided over the vapor capillary in the welding direction, as well as transverse to the welding direction. The measurement light spot is during the subsequent laser machining process moved into the determined position of the vapor capillary in order to measure the weld penetration depth.

Claim (Index 11):
A device for measuring the weld penetration depth, particularly in welding, drilling or machining processes carried out by means of a working laser beam, comprising:\n a laser machining head, through which a processing beam path with focusing optics for focusing the working laser beam on a workpiece extends, a sensor system for generating a measurement light beam, which can be coupled into the processing beam path in the laser machining head and bundled or focused in a measurement light spot on a surface of the workpiece by means of the focusing optics of the processing beam path, and an actuator system with a deflection unit for the measurement light beam, wherein the sensor system and the actuator system are configured for carrying out a method for measuring the weld penetration depth according to one of the preceding claims.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.77778
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16015571', '15206856', '14140711', '13583904', '15659092']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7170368097689143
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4874845214771774
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6940815809397406
- Mean Citation Score: 243.747384
- Max Citation Score: 253.50938
- Similarity Product: 209.6629609388757

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

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