PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16041607
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["356", "614000"]

Abstract:
Apparatus ( 1 ) for additively manufacturing of three-dimensional objects ( 2 ) by means of successive layerwise selective irradiation and consolidation of layers of a build material ( 3 ) which can be consolidated by means of an energy beam ( 4, 5 ), wherein the apparatus ( 1 ) comprises a scanning unit ( 6 ) configured to scan the energy beam ( 4, 5 ) over at least a part of a build plane ( 7 ), a focusing unit ( 15 ) is provided that is configured to control a focal position ( 13, 14 ) of the energy beam ( 4, 5 ) via a positioning of at least one optical component of the focusing unit ( 15 ) and/or a positioning of the focusing unit ( 15 ) relative to the build plane ( 7 ).

Claim (Index 7):
Method according to  claim 6 , comprising the following steps:\n determining the current focal position ( 13 ,  14 ) of the energy beam ( 4 ,  5 ) determining a target focal position ( 13 ,  14 ) determining a current defocus with respect to the target focal position ( 13 ,  14 ) controlling a parameter of at least one optical component, in particular a distance of the component to the build plane ( 7 ), to transfer the current focal position ( 13 ,  14 ) into the target focal position ( 13 ,  14 )

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19118
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12279872', '14952184', '11136866', '14385464', '10506860']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6778365212515985
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4696336327863985
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6570162324050786
- Mean Citation Score: 145.44587800000005
- Max Citation Score: 148.95255
- Similarity Product: 106.48008112786712

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

Dataset: test