PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16106134
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["850", "009000"]

Abstract:
A tunnel current control apparatus includes a terahertz wave generation element configured to generate and output a terahertz wave pulse, a CEP adjustment unit configured to adjust a CEP of the terahertz wave pulse, and an off-axis parabolic mirror serving as a focusing element configured to focus the terahertz wave pulse in a gap between a first conductive object and a second conductive object. The CEP adjustment unit can arbitrarily adjust the CEP of the terahertz wave pulse.

Claim (Index 5):
A tunnel current control method for controlling a tunnel current flowing between a first conductive object and a second conductive object, the method comprising:\n a generation step of, by a terahertz wave generation element, generating and outputting a terahertz wave pulse; a CEP adjustment step of, by a CEP adjustment unit configured to input the terahertz wave pulse output from the terahertz wave generation element, adjusting a CEP of the input terahertz wave pulse, and outputting the terahertz wave pulse after the CEP adjustment; and a focusing step of, by a focusing element configured to input the terahertz wave pulse output from the CEP adjustment unit, focusing the input terahertz wave pulse in a gap between the first conductive object and the second conductive object, wherein in the CEP adjustment step, a circularly polarized light pulse generation element configured to input the terahertz wave pulse output from the terahertz wave generation element is used to output the terahertz wave pulse as circularly polarized light, a half-wave plate configured to input the terahertz wave pulse output from the circularly polarized light pulse generation element, and be rotatable about an axis parallel to an input direction is used to output the terahertz wave pulse having the CEP corresponding to a rotation direction, and a linearly polarized light pulse generation element configured to input the terahertz wave pulse output from the half-wave plate is used to output the terahertz wave pulse as linearly polarized light.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90698
- Patent Class: 850.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12476680', '12444209', '15597329', '14982022', '12988158']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6395524682066015
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4948040896206214
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6250776303480036
- Mean Citation Score: 226.363556
- Max Citation Score: 235.98828
- Similarity Product: 174.45547634855748

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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