PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16118580
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
An optical scanning device according to an embodiment includes a light source, a MEMS mirror, a MEMS-mirror driving unit, a control unit, and a sensor. The light source radiates a plurality of laser beams that scan a photoconductive drum. The MEMS mirror includes a reflection surface that reflects the plurality of laser beams radiated from the light source. The MEMS-mirror driving unit reciprocatingly moves the MEMS mirror. The sensor supplies a horizontal synchronization signal to the control unit by detecting the laser beam reflected on the reflection surface when the MEMS mirror reaches a predetermined position. After detecting the horizontal synchronization signal supplied from the sensor, the control unit performs the auto power control of the light amount of at least one laser beam among the plurality of laser beams.

Claim (Index 11):
An optical scanning method comprising:\n moving a MEMS mirror reciprocatingly, the MEMS mirror including a reflection surface that reflects the plurality of laser beams radiated from a light source; auto power controlling respective light amounts of the plurality of laser beams radiated from the light source to predetermined values, the light source comprising a plurality of emitting units and one light receiving unit that receives a light beam from the plurality of emitting units and radiates a plurality of laser beams configured to scan a photoconductive drum; supplying a horizontal synchronization signal by detecting a laser beam reflected on the reflection surface when the MEMS mirror reaches a predetermined position where the plurality of laser beams does not scan the photoconductive drum; emitting one of the plurality of emitting units; based on the horizontal synchronization signal supplied, first auto power controlling of the light amount of at least one laser beam among the plurality of laser beams, and not executing a second auto power controlling for the light emitting unit of the plurality of light emitting units while emitting the one of the plurality of light emitting unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2381
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15381846', '15728578', '14810707', '13748868', '13850503']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5082145840726773
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5209127982358633
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5094844054889959
- Mean Citation Score: 204.41362
- Max Citation Score: 330.16043
- Similarity Product: 301.15312888479235

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

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