PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16119342
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["356", "600000"]

Abstract:
There is provided a method for controlling a surface texture measuring apparatus equipped with a probe that cannot detect an edge portion so as to automatically perform edge detection and automatically set a workpiece coordinate system. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce discrepancies by individual operators when setting a coordinate system, and improve the workability of coordinate system setting. A surface to be measured Sw is scanned with a probe  260  along a preset preliminary measurement path PL. When a detection error which causes when the surface to be measured Sw is out of the tracking range of the probe  260  occurs, a measurement value immediately before the detection error has occurred is temporarily registered as a temporary edge point. When the detection error continues during the subsequent scanning is performed for a predetermined distance along the preliminary measurement path, the temporarily registered temporary edge point is set to an edge point.

Claim (Index 3):
A method for controlling a surface texture measuring apparatus that scans a surface of an object to be measured with a contact or contactless probe and measures a shape of the surface of the object to be measured, the method comprising:\n presetting a preliminary measurement path so as to extend from outside the object to be measured toward the object to be measured; outputting a detection error during the probe scans along the preliminary measurement path outside the object to be measured; acquiring a measurement value when the probe reaches an edge of the object to be measured; and setting, as an edge point, a point where a state in which a measurement value is not acquirable due to the detection error is changed to a state in which the measurement value is acquirable.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92857
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11434310', '13365539', '15984515', '12505928', '15496321']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6829180927310157
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4744244404136008
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6620687274992743
- Mean Citation Score: 158.97807199999997
- Max Citation Score: 164.15833999999995
- Similarity Product: 116.67475472562548

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

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