PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16157987
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["073", "598000"]

Abstract:
A method and a device for the near-surface, non-destructive inspection by means of ultrasound of a rotationally symmetric workpiece having a diameter that changes from section to section are provided. The method and device are based on the insonification of an ultrasonic test pulse into the workpiece at a defined insonification angle and the subsequent recording of an ultrasonic echo signal from the workpiece. Echo signals that trace back to a near-surface region ROI of the workpiece are identified and evaluated. Then, a graphic representation of the surface of the workpiece is generated.

Claim (Index 21):
A method for near-surface, non-destructive inspection of a workpiece by ultrasound, the method comprising:\n insonifying a plurality of ultrasonic test pulses at a defined insonification angle into a rotationally symmetric workpiece at a surface coupling location via a phased array test probe coupled to the workpiece; recording a plurality of ultrasonic echo signals from the workpiece, each of the plurality of ultrasonic echo signals respectively corresponding to each of the plurality of ultrasonic test pulses insonified via the phased array test probe; selecting a travel time interval associated with a sound path of each of the plurality of ultrasonic test pulses, the selected travel time interval corresponding to a near-surface region of the workpiece; generating an echo value for each of the plurality of ultrasonic echo signals by analyzing the plurality of ultrasonic echo signals in the selected travel time interval; and generating a representation of the near-surface region of the workpiece, wherein the echo value is depicted in the representation in a spatially resolved manner.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7069
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14651575', '12993429', '12811558', '13062032', '10539853']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7086687161752089
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5764336853359944
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6954452130912874
- Mean Citation Score: 300.327664
- Max Citation Score: 476.1641
- Similarity Product: 436.39348594959984

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