PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16142069
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["445", "003000"]

Abstract:
Standard image data representing standard image including image of slit of a standard device is produced by photographing the standard device including the slit which includes a standard slit segment having a predetermined width. A width of the standard slit segment in the standard image is determined by analyzing the standard image data. Gap image data representing a gap image which is an image including an image of a discharge gap of a spark plug is produced by photographing the spark plug. A distance of the discharge gap in the gap image is determined by analyzing the gap image data. By using the distance of the discharge gap in the gap image and the width of the standard slit segment in the standard image, it is determined whether an actual distance of the discharge gap is within a predetermined allowable range or not.

Claim (Index 1):
A spark plug production method of producing a spark plug which comprises an insulating member, a center electrode including a portion disposed at a forward end of the insulating member, a tubular outer metal member surrounding the insulating member, and a ground electrode connected with the outer metal member and arranged to confront the center electrode to form a discharge gap, the spark plug production method comprising:\n producing standard image data representing a standard image by capturing an image of a standard device including a slit forming section forming a slit which includes a standard slit segment having a predetermined width, with an image capturing device, the standard image being an image including an image of the slit of the standard device; determining a width of the standard slit segment of the slit in the standard image by analyzing the standard image data; producing gap image data representing a gap image which is an image including an image of the discharge gap, by capturing an image of the spark plug with the image capturing device; determining a distance of the discharge gap in the gap image, by analyzing the gap image data; and determining whether an actual distance of the discharge gap is within a predetermined allowable range or not, by using the distance of the discharge gap determined in the gap image and the width of the standard slit segment determined in the standard image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.31111
- Patent Class: 445.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14113390', '15974889', '11220636', '13817544', '12339599']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6127597022334259
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4597841391890824
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5974621459289916
- Mean Citation Score: 153.422336
- Max Citation Score: 160.88463000000004
- Similarity Product: 129.06621788896146

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

Dataset: test