PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15893977
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["073", "588000"]

Abstract:
An inspection system for determining the efficacy and veracity of a bond-line, comprising: a robotic arm assembly providing a gimbal mount for enabling linear and rotary translation about multiple axes; an ultrasonic transducer affixed to the gimbal mount of the robotic arm assembly and comprising a planar array of transducer elements, each transducer element capable of transmitting and receiving reflected ultrasonic energy indicative of changes in acoustic impedance within the bond-line. The reflected energy of each transducer element provides acquired bond-line data indicative of the efficacy of the bond-line while select transducer elements produce orientation data indicative of the orientation of the planar array relative to the contour of the bonded joint. The bond-line and orientation data are combined to determine whether the direction of the transmitted pulse should be altered to validate the bond-line data.

Claim (Index 1):
An inspection system for determining the efficacy of a bond-line of a bonded part, comprising:\n a robotic arm assembly having a plurality of linear and rotary actuators configured to effect linear translation and rotational displacement of the robotic arm assembly about multiple axes, the robotic arm assembly including position encoders issuing position signals indicative of the instantaneous or almost instantaneous position of the robotic arm assembly; a flexible ultrasonic transducer mounted to a housing of the robotic arm assembly, the ultrasonic transducer having an array of inspection elements, each element configured to transmit and receive ultrasonic energy indicative of the efficacy of the bond-line and issuing an ultrasonic impedance signal indicative thereof; and a signal processor, responsive to the position signals of the robotic arm assembly and the ultrasonic impedance signals of the flexible ultrasonic transducer, to determine whether the efficacy of the bond-line is within a predetermined acceptance threshold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93243
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15068169', '14499806', '10950865', '14809522', '12194000']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6792148683058208
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4746300935865917
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6587563908338979
- Mean Citation Score: 155.81399399999995
- Max Citation Score: 172.67763
- Similarity Product: 125.3672857153809

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

Dataset: test