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 9):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein multiple passes of the partially-blocked scanning process are performed, wherein the radiation-blocking area of the blocking device is turned by a predetermined angle after a number of scans of the partially-blocked scanning process in order to separately evaluate deflections in both machine direction and cross 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): 0.6668766948223925
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4869717725580598
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6488862025959593
- Mean Citation Score: 157.43321799999995
- Max Citation Score: 166.87062
- Similarity Product: 115.98270849095822

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

Dataset: test