PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15777125
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["356", "606000"]

Abstract:
An inspection group is proposed for inspecting cylinder-shaped elongated elements for smoking articles, in which a working plane is selected passing through a longitudinal axis of a first elongated element and there are considered a first half space and a second half space arranged on opposite parts with respect to the working plane. The inspecting group includes: a projecting device adapted to project a first stripe of light from the first half space onto an inspection portion of an external surface of the first elongated element and to obtain a first three-dimensional light trace, and also adapted to project a second stripe of light from the second half space onto the inspection portion to obtain a second three-dimensional light trace; an optical assembly adapted to frame the first elongated element and to process a first view and a second view; a processing device adapted to reconstruct a first closed curved section profile of the first elongated element processing an identified first curved light line in the first view and a second identified curved light line in the second view and comparing the first reconstructed closed curved profile with an ideal section profile to identify possible deformations of the reconstructed first closed curved profile with respect to the ideal section profile. The projecting device includes a single projector of a single stripe of light; a shield, arranged between the single projector and the first elongated element, adapted to split the single stripe of light into a first part of a stripe of light and into a second part of a stripe of light; first deflectors of the first part of a stripe of light arranged in the first half space and second deflectors of the second part of the stripe of light arranged in the second half space to obtain respectively the first stripe of light projected from the first half space and the second stripe of light projected from the second half space by a single stripe of light.

Claim (Index 7):
The inspection group according to  claim 1 , wherein the inspection group is adapted to inspect simultaneously the first elongated element and an ideal elongated element, the first elongated element and the ideal elongated element being arranged alongside one another respectively in a first position and in a reference position in such a manner that a longitudinal axis of the first elongated element and a longitudinal axis of the ideal elongated element are both arranged in the working plane; the projecting device being adapted to additionally project the first stripe of light from the first half space onto an external face of the ideal elongated element to obtain a first three-dimensional light trace and the second stripe of light from the second half space onto said external face to obtain a second three-dimensional light trace; the optical assembly being adapted to frame simultaneously from the first half space the first elongated element and the ideal elongated element for processing the first view and additionally identifying a first curved line of the ideal elongated element; and to frame simultaneously from the second half space the first elongated element and the ideal elongated element to process the second view and additionally identifying a second curved line of the ideal elongated element; and in which the processing device is adapted to additionally reconstruct by means of the identified first curved line and the second identified curved line a closed curved section profile of the ideal elongated element and monitoring the reconstructed closed profile of the ideal elongated element, generating a warning if the reconstructed curved profile of the ideal elongated element is different from the ideal section profile.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.70652
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15777116', '12972386', '14837347', '14251718', '12869942']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6897946631960089
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6013379387225849
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6809489907486665
- Mean Citation Score: 224.728386
- Max Citation Score: 526.2269
- Similarity Product: 481.6648973627924

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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