PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907805
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["209", "003200"]

Abstract:
A microparticle sorting apparatus includes a detection unit which detects microparticles flowing through a flow path; an imaging device which images a droplet containing the microparticles which is discharged from an orifice provided on an edge portion of the flow path; a charge unit which applies a charge to the droplets; and a control unit which determines a delay time as from a time that the microparticles are detected by the detection unit to the time at which a number of bright spots in a standard region, which is set beforehand, of image information imaged by the imaging device reaches the maximum, making it possible for the charge unit to apply a charge to the microparticles once the delay time has lapsed after the microparticles are detected by the detection unit.

Claim (Index 4):
The delay time determination method according to  claim 3 , wherein of the two comparison regions, a first comparison region and a second comparison region are arranged in order in a discharge direction of the droplets, the method further comprising:\n calculating the time at which the number of bright spots reaches a predetermined percentage of the maximum value in the second comparison region in a process where the number of bright spots increases toward the time at which the number of bright spots reaches the maximum in the second comparison region; and determining the time to be the time at which the number of bright spots within the standard region reaches the maximum.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 43.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94366
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15093879', '13788075', '14118788', '14737370', '15767426']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.676996272582662
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5769677547815558
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6669934208025514
- Mean Citation Score: 331.80312800000013
- Max Citation Score: 486.40625
- Similarity Product: 430.4100348800421

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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