PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16193152
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["250", "340000"]

Abstract:
An infrared sensor comprises a base substrate including a recess, a bolometer infrared ray receiver, and a Peltier device. The bolometer infrared ray receiver comprises a resistance variable layer, a bolometer first beam, and a bolometer second beam. The Peltier device comprises a Peltier first beam formed of a p-type semiconductor material and a Peltier second beam formed of an n-type semiconductor material. The Peltier device is in contact with a back surface of the bolometer infrared ray receiver. One end of each of the bolometer first beam, the bolometer second beam, the Peltier first beam, and the Peltier second beam is connected to the base substrate. The bolometer infrared ray receiver and the Peltier device are suspended above the base substrate. Each of the bolometer first beam, the bolometer second beam, the Peltier first beam, and the Peltier second beam has a phononic crystal structure including a plurality of through holes arranged regularly.

Claim (Index 16):
A method for cooling a bolometer infrared ray receiver of an infrared sensor, the method comprising:\n (a) providing the infrared sensor that comprises\n a base substrate including a recess, \n the bolometer infrared ray receiver, and \n a Peltier device, wherein \n the bolometer infrared ray receiver comprises\n a resistance variable layer in which resistance varies upon absorption of an infrared ray, \n a bolometer first beam electrically connected to the resistance variable layer, and \n a bolometer second beam electrically connected to the resistance variable layer, \n \n the Peltier device is interposed between the bolometer infrared ray receiver and the recess, \n a front surface of the bolometer infrared ray receiver is irradiated with the infrared ray, \n the Peltier device comprises a Peltier first beam formed of a p-type semiconductor material and a Peltier second beam formed of an n-type semiconductor material, \n the Peltier device is in contact with a back surface of the bolometer infrared ray receiver, \n one end of the bolometer first beam, one end of the bolometer second beam, one end of the Peltier first beam, and one end of the Peltier second beam are connected to the base substrate, \n the bolometer infrared ray receiver, the Peltier device, the bolometer first beam, the bolometer second beam, the Peltier first beam, and the Peltier second beam are suspended above the base substrate, \n the bolometer first beam has a first phononic crystal structure including a plurality of through holes arranged regularly, \n the bolometer second beam has a second phononic crystal structure including a plurality of through holes arranged regularly, \n the Peltier first beam has a third phononic crystal structure including a plurality of through holes arranged regularly, and \n the Peltier second beam has a fourth phononic crystal structure including a plurality of through holes arranged regularly; \n (b) irradiating the front surface of the bolometer infrared ray receiver with the infrared ray; (c) shutting off the infrared ray being incident on the bolometer infrared ray receiver; and (d) applying current to the Peltier first beam and the Peltier second beam, to cool the bolometer infrared ray receiver.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.05357
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15497353', '10271720', '10574935', '13139599', '10697155']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6636962782534382
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5447703549466218
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6518036859227566
- Mean Citation Score: 237.55458600000003
- Max Citation Score: 393.57007
- Similarity Product: 295.20255937209487

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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