PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948660
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "098000"]

Abstract:
A light source includes a side-emitting, light emitting diode (LED) that is mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB) or other substrate. The LED is used to illuminate a target such as a sensor or the like. In order to increase the amount of illumination emitted by the LED that reaches the target, a reflector is located on the PCB. The reflector receives light that is emitted by the LED and directed toward the PCB and not the target. This light, which would otherwise be lost, is reflected by the reflector and re-directed toward the target. By reducing the amount of light is lost, the amount of light reaching the target can be increased without a commensurate increase in the current supplied to the LED.

Claim (Index 16):
The apparatus of  claim 15  wherein the PCB includes metal anode and cathode pads and a reflector, the LED being surface mounted to the anode and cathode pads to establish electrical and mechanical contact between an anode electrode and the anode pad and a cathode electrode and the cathode pad, the anode and cathode pads and the reflector being formed from a common material having a surface layer that is able to reflect light at wavelengths emitted by the LED.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05882
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11423419', '09767695', '11253174', '15078488', '11954712']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9219112657976928
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4854716844072476
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8782673076586482
- Mean Citation Score: 175.38337199999995
- Max Citation Score: 180.91724
- Similarity Product: 125.62629175680637

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

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