PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15772934
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["356", "237200"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for optical inspection of objects, in particular cans. The apparatus includes an inspection station, a lighting system, and a camera directed towards the inspection system to capture an image of the lateral surface of the object to be inspected. A Fresnel lens is associated with the lighting system to direct a beam of light rays collimated towards the object to be inspected, located in the inspection station. A further Fresnel lens is positioned to face the object to be inspected, located in the inspection station and directed in such a way as to make the collimated light rays converge on the object.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of optically inspecting inspection of objects, the method comprising:\n transporting a plurality of objects in succession, along a feed path; positioning the objects in an inspection station arranged along the feed path, wherein, in the inspection station, at least one of the objects is oriented along a longitudinal axis and defines a support surface and a side surface; illuminating the object positioned in the inspection station, via an illumination system positioned above the inspection station; with at least one camera oriented towards the inspection station, acquiring an image of the side surface of the illuminated object positioned in the inspection station; orientating rays generated by the illumination system, for longitudinally directing a beam of collimated light rays toward the object to be inspected, placed in the inspection station; and orientating rays of said beam of collimated light rays, through a converging lens, for generating a beam of converging rays to illuminate the side surface of the object positioned in the inspection station.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13208
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15562480', '12523005', '10988031', '14236265', '14902222']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6688843696068708
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4951778432436803
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6515137169705518
- Mean Citation Score: 213.896062
- Max Citation Score: 225.98338
- Similarity Product: 165.7629318077397

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

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