PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16220702
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
An object detecting apparatus is provided with: a laser diode that projects a laser beam; a torsion spring coupled with a support member; a mirror coupled to a first side of the torsion spring and reflecting the laser beam; a permanent magnet coupled to a second side of the torsion spring across a rotational axis of the torsion spring; a driving coil; and a magnetic substance assembly surrounding the driving coil. The mirror reciprocates corresponding to a driving signal applied to the driving coil. The object detecting apparatus is further provided with a speed detecting circuitry configured to detect a moving speed of the mirror; and a pulse controller configured to control a pulse interval of the laser beam projected by the laser diode based on the moving speed detected by the speed detecting circuitry.

Claim (Index 1):
An object detecting apparatus comprising:\n an optical assembly configured to project a laser beam outward; a scanning assembly configured to periodically change a projection direction of the laser beam; a light-receiving element; a light-receiving optical assembly configured to guide an incident light toward the light-receiving element; and an object detecting assembly configured to detect a distance to an object located along an optical path of the projected laser beam and a direction in which the object is located, based on a projection timing and the projection direction of the laser beam and a timing of a light detection signal output by the light-receiving element, the scanning assembly comprising: a torsion spring coupled with a support member; a mirror coupled to a first side of the torsion spring and configured to reflect the laser beam; a permanent magnet coupled to a second side of the torsion spring where the permanent magnet is placed with an N-pole and an S-pole thereof across a rotational axis of the torsion spring; a driving coil faced to facing the permanent magnet and located on the first second side of the torsion spring beyond the permanent magnet; a magnetic substance assembly surrounding the driving coil; a driving circuitry configured to apply a driving signal periodically varying a voltage or a current to the driving coil; a speed detecting circuitry configured to detect a moving speed of the mirror; and a pulse controller configured to control a pulse interval of the laser beam projected by the optical assembly based on the moving speed detected by the speed detecting circuitry, the mirror reciprocating corresponding to the driving signal applied by the driving circuitry.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37705
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16220082', '11796151', '13824137', '10327761', '11446754']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6883608730410476
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5110679477260205
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.670631580509545
- Mean Citation Score: 211.832316
- Max Citation Score: 311.47174
- Similarity Product: 278.23326728794103

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

Dataset: test