PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16184584
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["374", "126000"]

Abstract:
An inexpensive thermopile temperature detector is particularly adapted to monitoring of electrical equipment, such as a power bus bar, within an enclosed area such as a cabinet. The detector may have a plastic housing, a thermopile sensor and a plastic Fresnel lens. Each sensor also includes a calibrated element such that, but for calibration, the same sensor may be used for various applications for different target sizes and distance or, more generally, with respect to effective target percentage of field of view.

Claim (Index 7):
A method of monitoring electrical equipment comprising:\n depending on an application having an effective target percentage of field of view, selecting a sensor comprising a thermopile having a cold junction, the sensor calibrated according to a sensor model selected from plural sensor models calibrated with respect to effective target percentage of field of view with fields of view of the sensors extending beyond an edge of the target element; positioning the sensor to view the target element of the electrical equipment with an effective target percentage of field of view of the sensor, the field of view of the sensor extending beyond an edge of the target element, and the cold junction of the sensor being at about a temperature of a background ambient environment inside a cabinet surrounding the target element of the electrical equipment; and detecting a voltage output of the sensor, calibrated with respect to effective target percentage of field of view, to provide an indication of temperature differential between the target element of the electrical equipment and background ambient.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.46032
- Patent Class: 374.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13339566', '14921358', '15697290', '13427521', '12645267']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6247238459741951
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5525832314716138
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.617509784523937
- Mean Citation Score: 268.410532
- Max Citation Score: 377.34506
- Similarity Product: 348.22612349618555

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