PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15751156
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["324", "207180"]

Abstract:
A proximity sensor is provided with coils ( 11, 12 ) disposed in a pre-set positional relationship, a first distance calculation unit ( 31 ) and a second distance calculation unit ( 32 ) for calculating first distance information (d 1 ) and second distance information (d 2 ), respectively, from the coils ( 11, 12 ) to a detection object (W) on the basis of reception results (voltages V 1,  V 2 ) of the coils ( 11, 12 ), and a position estimating unit ( 33 ) for estimating the position, such as distance and azimuth, of the detection object (W) on the basis of the first distance information (d 1 ), the second distance information (d 2 ), and the positional relationship of the coils ( 11, 12 ) .

Claim (Index 2):
The proximity sensor according to  claim 1 , wherein:\n each of the coils is selectively excited in two or more different combinations; the distance calculation unit calculates respective pieces of distance information from the plurality of coils to the detection object for each selective excitation of each of the coils; and the position estimating unit estimates the position of the detection object on the basis of the positional relationship and each piece of distance information calculated for each of the selective excitation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.92453
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13696021', '14129165', '15210175', '10683734', '12705069']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5728287094536918
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4428506303980646
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5598309015481291
- Mean Citation Score: 137.291208
- Max Citation Score: 145.43777
- Similarity Product: 123.7391449856132

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