PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15981112
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["356", "630000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is a first transmitter that transmits a first optical signal towards a target, a plurality of receivers that receive the first optical signal after the first optical signal is reflected by the target and each provides a respective received optical signal, at least one photodetector that receives the received optical signals and provides at least a first electrical signal, and a processor that receives the first electrical signal to compute a position of the target relative to a baseline position based on: a first position of a first receiver of the plurality of receivers, a second position of a second receiver of the plurality of receivers, the first electrical signal. The processor computes a clearance between the target and a component based on a third position of a third receiver, a fourth position of a fourth receiver and a second electrical signal.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for use on a turbomachine having a longitudinal axial centerline, the system comprising:\n a case; a seal coupled to the case and radially disposed between the case and a turbine blade tip of a target relative to the centerline; a first transmitter that transmits a first optical signal towards the target; a second transmitter that transmits a second optical signal toward the turbine blade tip; a plurality of receivers that receive the first optical signal after the first optical signal is reflected by the target, and each receiver provides a respective first received optical signal, and the second optical signal after the second optical signal is reflected by the turbine blade tip, and each receiver provides a respective second received optical signal; at least one photodetector that receives the first received optical signals and the second received optical signals and provides at least a first electrical signal and a second electrical signal, respectively; and a processor that receives the first electrical signal to compute a position of the target relative to a baseline position based on:\n a first position of a first receiver of the plurality of receivers, \n a second position of a second receiver of the plurality of receivers, and \n the first electrical signal; \n wherein the processor computes a radial clearance between the seal and the turbine blade tip based on:\n a third position of a third receiver of the plurality of receivers, \n a fourth position of a fourth receiver of the plurality of receivers, and \n the second electrical signal; and \n wherein the first position corresponds to a first axial position relative to the centerline, and wherein the second position corresponds to a second axial position relative to the centerline, and wherein the second axial position is different from the first axial position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.98039
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15228664', '15406271', '15406324', '14893145', '15832376']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6406584927792914
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4812826303170436
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6247209065330667
- Mean Citation Score: 161.269116
- Max Citation Score: 167.77982
- Similarity Product: 120.54252337775468

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

Dataset: test