PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16341505
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["356", "429000"]

Abstract:
A method for detecting a deflection or relative deflection between a source module and a detection module in a scanning apparatus and configured as a sensor pair for scanning transmission measurement of sheet material being transported in a machine direction through a sensing gap formed between the source module and the detection module is provided. The source module is arranged on a first side of the sensing gap and emits a sensing radiation or sensing energy radiation towards the sensing gap, and the detection module is arranged on a second side of the sensing gap opposite to the first side and detects the radiation from the source module and transmitted through the sensing gap. The method includes: attaching a removable blocking device to the detection module, so that a radiation-blocking area of the blocking device partially blocks, in an asymmetrical manner, a sub-area of the cross-sectional area of the radiation impinging onto a detection module aperture of the detection module; and performing a partially-blocked scanning process during which the source module and the detection module are jointly moved in a cross direction of the scanning apparatus, the source module emits the radiation and the detection module detects the radiation from the source module having transmitted through the sensing gap, whereby a selected portion of the radiation corresponding to the sub-area covered by the radiation-blocking area is blocked from being detected by the detection module aperture, whereby a partially-blocked sensor signal is obtained from the radiation detected by the detection module.

Claim (Index 7):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the asymmetric partially blocking area of the blocking device is arranged to make the measurement signal primarily sensitive to deflections in the machine direction, particularly wherein the blocking area of the blocking device is configured to block opposing halves of detection module aperture in a downstream machine direction and a upstream machine direction, and wherein an averaged deflection in machine direction is calculated from the difference between the mean values of the deflection profile of the detection module aperture blocked in the downstream machine direction and the upstream machine direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.78723
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10994862', '14844778', '14262186', '15974424', '12566180']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6668428693250977
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4871164004642135
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6488702224390094
- Mean Citation Score: 157.43321799999995
- Max Citation Score: 166.87062
- Similarity Product: 115.83110753463508

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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