PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16220702
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
An object detecting apparatus is provided with: a laser diode that projects a laser beam; a torsion spring coupled with a support member; a mirror coupled to a first side of the torsion spring and reflecting the laser beam; a permanent magnet coupled to a second side of the torsion spring across a rotational axis of the torsion spring; a driving coil; and a magnetic substance assembly surrounding the driving coil. The mirror reciprocates corresponding to a driving signal applied to the driving coil. The object detecting apparatus is further provided with a speed detecting circuitry configured to detect a moving speed of the mirror; and a pulse controller configured to control a pulse interval of the laser beam projected by the laser diode based on the moving speed detected by the speed detecting circuitry.

Claim (Index 12):
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium containing program instructions executable by a computer, and when executed, causing one computer or a plurality of computers in cooperation to execute a control method of an object detecting apparatus,\n the object detecting apparatus comprising: an optical assembly configured to project a laser beam outward; a scanning assembly configured to periodically change projection direction of the laser beam; a light-receiving element; a light-receiving optical assembly configured to guide an incident light toward the light-receiving element; and an object detecting assembly configured to detect a distance to an object located along an optical path of the projected laser beam and a direction in which the object is located, based on a projection timing and the projection direction of the laser beam and a timing of a light detection signal output by the light-receiving element, the scanning assembly comprising: a torsion spring coupled with a support member; a mirror coupled to a first side of the torsion spring and configured to reflect the laser beam; a permanent magnet coupled to a second side of the torsion spring where the permanent magnet is placed with an N-pole and an S-pole thereof across a rotational axis of the torsion spring; a driving coil facing the permanent magnet and located on the second side of the torsion spring beyond the permanent magnet; a magnetic substance assembly surrounding the driving coil; and a driving circuitry configured to apply a driving signal periodically varying a voltage or a current to the driving coil, the mirror reciprocating corresponding to the driving signal applied by the driving circuitry, the control method comprising: detecting a moving speed of the mirror; and controlling a pulse interval of the laser beam projected by the optical assembly based on the detected moving speed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37705
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16220082', '11796151', '13824137', '10327761', '11446754']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.687721766102611
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5175186865230236
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6707014581446522
- Mean Citation Score: 211.832316
- Max Citation Score: 311.47174
- Similarity Product: 235.4080231794894

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

Dataset: test