PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15969260
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["343", "702000"]

Abstract:
An antenna with a clamping mechanism and a method for using the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, an antenna comprises a radial waveguide, an aperture operable to radiate radio frequency (RF) signals in response to an RF feed wave fed by the radial waveguide, and one or more clamping devices to apply a compressive force between the waveguide and the aperture.

Claim (Index 23):
An antenna comprising:\n a radial waveguide; an aperture operable to radiate radio frequency (RF) signals in response to an RF feed wave fed by the radial waveguide, wherein the coefficient of thermal expansion of the waveguide and the aperture are different; a layer between the waveguide and the aperture around which the feed wave travels to feed the plurality of antenna elements from outer edges of the layer; a radio frequency (RF) choke operable to block RF energy from exiting through a gap between outer portions of the waveguide and the aperture; a material between the waveguide and the aperture and attached to the choke to provide a surface for an aperture layer to slip across the waveguide; and one or more spring clamps to apply a compressive force between the waveguide and the aperture, wherein the compressive force holds the aperture layer against the RF choke while allowing lateral movement between the aperture layer and the RF choke due to temperature variation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5
- Patent Class: 343.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14550209', '15847545', '15802320', '14954415', '15847527']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8195964347387616
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4897644248659215
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7866132337514776
- Mean Citation Score: 225.661516
- Max Citation Score: 239.09874
- Similarity Product: 182.5242058514285

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