PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16229099
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["700", "114000"]

Abstract:
A method for calibrating a CNC machine including providing instructions for machining a surface of a distortion-free object, selecting a true axis of movement of a toolhead of the machine using the instructions, instructing the toolhead to travel on an object to be machined along the true axis of movement, but where the toolhead actually travels along an actual axis that is deviated from the true axis as a result of the surface distortions on the object to be machined, selecting multiple points along the actual axis traveled by the toolhead on the object to be machined, comparing the distance of the multiple points along the actual axis from the true axis to determine offset amounts from the true axis corresponding to a lack of straightness of the object to be machined, and modifying the instructions to compensate for the offset amounts before uploading the instructions to a CNC controller.

Claim (Index 18):
A system for virtually calibrating a computer numeric controlled (CNC) machine to compensate for surface distortions on an object to be machined, said system comprising:\n means for providing g-code instructions for machining a surface of a distortion-free object; means for selecting a true axis of movement of a toolhead of the CNC machine prior to machining the object to be machined using the g-code instructions, where the true axis is a straight line; means for instructing the toolhead to travel on the object to be machined along the true axis, but where the toolhead actually travels along an actual axis that is deviated from the true axis as a result of the surface distortions on the object to be machined; means for selecting multiple points along the actual axis; means for measuring the surface distortions particular to the object to be machined by comparing a distance between each of the multiple points along the actual axis and the true axis to determine an offset amount of each of the multiple points to determine a lack of straightness of the object to be machined; and means for modifying the g-code instructions for machining the object to be machined based on the determined offset amounts to correct for the measured surface distortions particular to the object to be machined before uploading the g-codes to a CNC controller.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53226
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14180922', '09997880', '11120269', '11906265', '10744042']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4057346440395579
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5800313040361593
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4231643100392181
- Mean Citation Score: 268.48672200000004
- Max Citation Score: 491.7673
- Similarity Product: 459.36591809847954

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

Dataset: test