PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16170532
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["396", "510000"]

Abstract:
According to an aspect of the invention, the diaphragm apparatus includes: a plurality of diaphragm blades which define an aperture diameter; a driving member which includes a protrusion protruding in an optical axis direction, rotates around an optical axis, and drives the diaphragm blades to change the aperture diameter; and a base plate which includes a rail part with which the protrusion contacts to be movable in a direction of a rotation of the driving member. The plurality of diaphragm blades are disposed in a gap between the driving member and the base plate, the gap being defined when the protrusion and the rail part contact with each other. A size of the gap changes in accordance with the rotation of the driving member in the optical axis direction.

Claim (Index 8):
An imaging apparatus comprising:\n a lens apparatus; and a camera body holding an imaging element which receives light from the lens apparatus, the lens apparatus comprising: a diaphragm apparatus; and a lens unit which guides light from an object to the diaphragm apparatus, the diaphragm apparatus comprising: a plurality of diaphragm blades which define an aperture diameter; a driving member which includes a protrusion protruding in an optical axis direction, rotates around an optical axis, and drives the diaphragm blades to change the aperture diameter; and a base plate which includes a rail part with which the protrusion contacts to be movable in a direction of a rotation of the driving member, wherein the plurality of diaphragm blades are disposed in a gap between the driving member and the base plate, the gap being defined when the protrusion and the rail part contact with each other, a size of the gap changes in accordance with the rotation of the driving member in the optical axis direction, and the size of the gap in the optical axis direction when the aperture diameter is a first aperture diameter is greater than the size of the gap in the optical axis direction when the aperture diameter is a second aperture diameter smaller than the first aperture diameter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39655
- Patent Class: 396.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13317735', '12653259', '13466587', '12653372', '13330740']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7125391546547883
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4894623492409412
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6902314741134037
- Mean Citation Score: 223.432484
- Max Citation Score: 235.8319
- Similarity Product: 178.46653240507248

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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