PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907805
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["209", "003200"]

Abstract:
A microparticle sorting apparatus includes a detection unit which detects microparticles flowing through a flow path; an imaging device which images a droplet containing the microparticles which is discharged from an orifice provided on an edge portion of the flow path; a charge unit which applies a charge to the droplets; and a control unit which determines a delay time as from a time that the microparticles are detected by the detection unit to the time at which a number of bright spots in a standard region, which is set beforehand, of image information imaged by the imaging device reaches the maximum, making it possible for the charge unit to apply a charge to the microparticles once the delay time has lapsed after the microparticles are detected by the detection unit.

Claim (Index 2):
The delay time determination method according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n imaging the images of a plurality of the droplets at a plurality of times; and preliminarily determining the delay time using the period of from the time at which the microparticles are detected until the time at which the number of bright spots within the standard region, which is calculated by comparing the image information of the plurality of droplets which are imaged, reaches the maximum as the provisional delay time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 43.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94366
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15093879', '13788075', '14118788', '14737370', '15767426']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6763895276605877
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.578523104269228
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6666028853214517
- Mean Citation Score: 331.80312800000013
- Max Citation Score: 486.40625
- Similarity Product: 439.1255445126444

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