PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16262305
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["324", "209000"]

Abstract:
A monitoring method and system include an antenna disposed spaced from a structural member (SM), which itself can be the target object or attachable to a target object, without using any in-dwelling strain sensor. The antenna is arranged to not touch the SM in at least the no load condition. As the target object undergoes displacement and/or deformation, the SM undergoes displacement and/or deformation. The SM is juxtaposed, partially contained with, or fully contained within a magnetic or electromagnetic field and electromagnetically coupled to the emitting antenna. Characteristics of the electromagnetic field coupling between the antenna and the SM shift over time due to the displacement and/or deformation applied to the SM. The shift in the characteristics of the electromagnetic field coupling between the antenna and the SM over time can be used to determine the temporal change in deformation and/or displacement of the SM over time to enable diagnosis of the target structural object being monitored.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of monitoring changes in a structural member (SM) as the SM undergoes at least one of displacement or deformation, the method comprising:\n a disposing step of disposing an antenna spaced from the SM so that the antenna does not contact the SM at least at no load condition; an inducing step of inducing a magnetic or electromagnetic field in the vicinity of the SM to create a coupling of the magnetic or electromagnetic field between the antenna and the SM, where characteristics of the magnetic or electromagnetic field coupling between the antenna and the SM are associated with one of the distance between the SM and the emitting antenna or the deformation state of the SM; an outputting step of outputting electrical signals representing the characteristics of the magnetic or electromagnetic field coupling between the antenna and the SM, without using any strain sensing device directly attached to the SM; a first determining step of determining the characteristics of the magnetic or electromagnetic field coupling between the antenna and the SM based on the electrical signals; and a storing step of storing the determined characteristics of the magnetic or electromagnetic field coupling between the antenna and the SM in a storage device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09877
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12878953', '15198725', '13407694', '14079598', '14422636']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4820912404978362
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4815998947789248
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4820421059259451
- Mean Citation Score: 141.28294999999997
- Max Citation Score: 155.3325
- Similarity Product: 104.18649096205831

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

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