PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16004966
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["356", "023000"]

Abstract:
A defect detection method includes the following processes: a) stroboscopically illuminating the entire surface of an object within an examination area of the object while inducing a first elastic wave across the examination area on the object, and controlling the phase of the elastic wave and the timing of the stroboscopic illumination to collectively measure a back-and-forth displacement of each point within the examination area in at least three phases of the elastic wave; b) identifying a surface location which is the location of a defect on the examination area, based on the back-and-forth displacement of each point within the examination area in the at least three different phases; and c) injecting a second elastic wave into a region inside the surface location from a limited area including the surface location, and determining the location and/or size in the depth direction of the defect, based on a response wave.

Claim (Index 11):
The defect detection method according to  claim 3 , wherein the displacement in the back-and-forth direction of each point within the examination area in at least three phases is collectively measured by speckle-shearing interferometry.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25352
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15611254', '15938591', '15408285', '10564737', '12227115']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6770837011005673
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5131390421780528
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6606892352083158
- Mean Citation Score: 203.605966
- Max Citation Score: 296.6039
- Similarity Product: 247.9840273467124

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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