PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15758057
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["356", "133000"]

Abstract:
A light guide device for conducting a light beam between a light source and a measuring unit for measuring a gas or substance concentration includes a light conductor and a holding apparatus. The conductor includes at least one coupling section, which faces, or can be arranged to be turned toward, the light source, for coupling the light beam, and a decoupling section, which faces, or can be arranged to be turned toward, the measuring unit, for decoupling the light beam. The conductor is configured to conduct the light beam between the coupling section and the decoupling section via total reflection on a boundary surface to a fluid or material that surrounds the conductor and has a smaller refractive index than the conductor. The holding apparatus is configured to hold the conductor in the fluid such that at least one primary portion of a surface of the conductor contacts the fluid.

Claim (Index 10):
The light guide apparatus as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein:\n the light guide further includes at least one first light guide branch arranged at at least one first branching point and at least one second light guide branch arranged at at least one second branching point; and the first branching point is configured to split the first light beam, coupled-in via the at least one input coupling portion, into a first partial beam and a second partial beam so as to steer the first partial beam to the output coupling portion and so as to steer the second partial beam is into the first light guide branch, and/or the second branching point is configured to steer a second light beam, coupled-in via the output coupling portion, into the second light guide branch and/or split the second light beam into a third partial beam and a fourth partial beam so as to steer the third partial beam toward the at least one input coupling portion and so as to steer the fourth partial beam into the second light guide branch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 30.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54688
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10161753', '14419772', '13832868', '11939382', '13138247']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6981799227347859
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4501766070706429
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6733795911683715
- Mean Citation Score: 124.290608
- Max Citation Score: 126.37682
- Similarity Product: 100.84255294928788

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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