PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15984515
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["702", "168000"]

Abstract:
A method is provided to assist adjustment for a movement path of a probe. A coordinate measuring machine includes a probe having a tip for detecting a surface of an object, and a movement mechanism for moving the probe, and measures a shape of the object by allowing the probe tip to scan the surface. A controller controls operation of the coordinate measuring machine by calculating a scanning path for allowing the probe tip to perform scanning movement and the movement path followed by the probe when the probe tip moves along the scanning path, setting control points on a line connecting each position of the probe tip and each corresponding position of the probe accepting a change in position of the control points by a user, and changing the movement path accordingly. An adjustment guide unit in the controller allows the control points to move collectively.

Claim (Index 2):
A CMM moving path adjustment assisting apparatus comprising:\n a coordinate measuring machine that includes a probe having a probe tip at a tip thereof for detecting a surface of an object to be measured, and a movement mechanism for moving the probe, and measures a shape of the object to be measured by allowing the probe tip to scan the surface of the object to be measured; and a controller that controls operation of the coordinate measuring machine, wherein the controller is configured to:\n calculate a scanning path for allowing the probe tip to perform scanning movement along the surface of the object to be measured; \n calculate a movement path followed by the probe when the probe tip moves along the scanning path; \n set control points on a line connecting each position of the probe tip on the scanning path and each position of the probe corresponding to each position of the probe tip; and \n accept a change in position of the control points by a user, and change the movement path according to the change in position of the control points, wherein: \n the controller provides an adjustment guide that allows a plurality of control points to move collectively, the adjustment guide is a guide line corresponding to a single straight line connecting all or a plurality of control points, and upon receiving an input for operating the guide line, the controller causes all or plurality of control points to move collectively according to a movement of the guide line.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38462
- Patent Class: 702.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13365539', '12049757', '12053164', '15873178', '12450937']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1713353350822126
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6120876948546629
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2154105710594577
- Mean Citation Score: 294.678392
- Max Citation Score: 524.5305
- Similarity Product: 521.8796494635343

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