PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15886702
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["073", "629000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for measuring a preload of a fastener. The method, which may be practiced at least in part by the apparatus, includes establishing an initial value associated with an absence of the preload of the fastener and providing an adapter and a transducer rotatably coupled to the adapter. The transducer may be positioned in contact with the fastener. The transducer is caused to direct an incident ultrasonic wave to the fastener and to receive a reflected ultrasonic wave from the fastener. Data associated with the incident ultrasonic wave and the reflected sonic wave is used to generate a modified value associated with the preload of the fastener, and the preload of the fastener is calculated based on a difference between the initial value and the modified value.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein positioning the transducer in contact with the fastener comprises translating the transducer relative to the adapter in a direction substantially parallel to a central axis of the fastener.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37931
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14204311', '12536438', '13897621', '12582885', '12492926']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6979088967655196
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4845533614149214
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6765733432304598
- Mean Citation Score: 151.794578
- Max Citation Score: 225.21252
- Similarity Product: 179.0697038387418

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