PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16262305
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["324", "209000"]

Abstract:
A monitoring method and system include an antenna disposed spaced from a structural member (SM), which itself can be the target object or attachable to a target object, without using any in-dwelling strain sensor. The antenna is arranged to not touch the SM in at least the no load condition. As the target object undergoes displacement and/or deformation, the SM undergoes displacement and/or deformation. The SM is juxtaposed, partially contained with, or fully contained within a magnetic or electromagnetic field and electromagnetically coupled to the emitting antenna. Characteristics of the electromagnetic field coupling between the antenna and the SM shift over time due to the displacement and/or deformation applied to the SM. The shift in the characteristics of the electromagnetic field coupling between the antenna and the SM over time can be used to determine the temporal change in deformation and/or displacement of the SM over time to enable diagnosis of the target structural object being monitored.

Claim (Index 20):
A system for monitoring change in a structural member (SM) as the SM undergoes one of deformation or displacement, the system comprising:\n an antenna configured to:\n induce, using a first electrical signal, a magnetic or electromagnetic field in the vicinity of the SM to create a coupling of the magnetic or electromagnetic field between the antenna and the SM, where the characteristics of the magnetic or electromagnetic field coupling between the antenna and the SM are associated with one of the distance between the SM and the emitting antenna or the deformation state of the SM; and \n output a second electrical signal representing the magnetic or electromagnetic field coupling between the antenna and the SM, without using any strain sensing device directly attached to the SM; \n an antenna holder configured to hold the antenna at a fixed distance from the SM so that the antenna is spaced from the SM and not contact the SM at least at no load condition; a controller including a memory storing instructions and a processor configured to implement instructions stored in the memory; and a hardware interface configured to output the first electrical signal to the antenna and receive the second electrical signal and convert the received electrical signal to a third signal readable by the controller, wherein the processor is configured to execute:\n a first determining task that receives the third electrical signal from the hardware interface and determines characteristics of the magnetic or electromagnetic field coupling between the antenna and the SM based on the third signal; \n a repeating task that repeats the first determining task to obtain a plurality of characteristics of the magnetic or electromagnetic field coupling between the antenna and the SM determined by the first determining task at a predetermined interval over an evaluation period; \n a second determining task that determines a shift in characteristics of the magnetic or electromagnetic field coupling between the antenna and the SM after each occurrence of the first determining task determining twice the characteristics of the magnetic or electromagnetic field coupling between the antenna and the SM at the predetermined interval, or collectively at the end of the evaluation period; and \n a third determining task that determines a temporal change in relative deformation or displacement of the SM over the evaluation period.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09877
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12878953', '15198725', '13407694', '14079598', '14422636']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4873068162325553
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4620501738664462
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4847811519959444
- Mean Citation Score: 141.28294999999997
- Max Citation Score: 155.3325
- Similarity Product: 122.29399796426296

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