PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16103074
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["083", "015000"]

Abstract:
A cutting apparatus includes a cutting unit configured to cut a workpiece held on a chuck table, and a groove detecting unit including a CCD imaging element photographing the workpiece held on the chuck table. The groove detecting unit photographs, by the CCD imaging element, a laser-processed groove and a cut groove illuminated by an oblique illumination set such that a light amount of light in a direction parallel with an extending direction of the laser-processed groove as viewed in plan is higher than a light amount of light in a direction orthogonal to the extending direction of the laser-processed groove.

Claim (Index 3):
A groove detecting method for detecting a laser-processed groove formed in a top surface of a workpiece by irradiating the workpiece with a laser beam, the groove detecting method comprising:\n an illuminating step of holding, by a chuck table, the workpiece in which the laser-processed groove is formed, and illuminating the laser-processed groove with an oblique illumination performing irradiation from a direction parallel with an extending direction of the laser-processed groove as viewed in plan; and a groove detecting step of photographing the illuminated laser-processed groove by a camera, and detecting the laser-processed groove diffusely reflecting light of the oblique illumination by projections and depressions of a groove bottom of the laser-processed groove from a photographed image obtained by the photographing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07843
- Patent Class: 83.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15388168', '13617046', '15205603', '14572917', '14936993']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7147547179800436
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4772746992316923
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6910067161052085
- Mean Citation Score: 186.614458
- Max Citation Score: 190.19759
- Similarity Product: 148.51402968138814

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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