PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15937170
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["372", "038010"]

Abstract:
A laser apparatus includes a plurality of laser modules, and includes a function for preventing a defect arising when switching the number of laser modules to be driven. The laser apparatus includes the plurality of laser modules, a combiner configured to combine laser beams from the plurality of laser modules, an optical output command section configured to generate a first optical output command for a combined laser beam, and a laser module selection/command section configured to select a laser module to be driven from the plurality of laser modules, based on the first optical output command and to generate a second optical output command for each of the laser modules that have been selected. The laser module selection/command section is configured to set a threshold value for a first optical output command to be different between when increasing and reducing the number of laser modules to be driven.

Claim (Index 1):
A laser apparatus comprising:\n a plurality of laser modules; a laser power source section configured to drive each of the plurality of laser modules; a combiner configured to combine laser beams emitted by the plurality of laser modules and to output a combined laser beam; an optical output command section configured to generate a first optical output command with respect to the combined laser beam; a laser module selection/command section configured to select a laser module to be driven from the plurality of laser modules, based on the first optical output command and to generate a second optical output command for the laser module that has been selected; and a control section configured to control the laser module and the laser power source section, based on the second optical output command, wherein, with respect to switching the number of laser-oscillating laser modules in accordance with a change in the first optical output command, the laser module selection/command section is configured to set a second threshold value for the first optical output command, when increasing the number of laser-oscillating laser modules to N, to a value higher or lower, by a predetermined value, than a first threshold value for the first optical output command serving as a reference, when reducing the number of laser-oscillating laser modules from N.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.73684
- Patent Class: 372.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15258074', '11748110', '11977102', '10949317', '13950626']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7525273926199344
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4674434838968227
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7240190017476233
- Mean Citation Score: 131.62043999999997
- Max Citation Score: 144.32051
- Similarity Product: 114.82942315649152

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

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