PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907054
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["359", "299000"]

Abstract:
A new Laser scanner system does replace all known laser scanner systems, that either are galvanometer based or not. It makes possible to steer a beam of even high intensity very precisely in one or two dimensions. The system can deflect a beam in very fine steps (deflection angles), with a repetition rate of potentially better than even some GHz. A possible embodiment includes a cascade of “deflection elements”, that are based on switching (thin) films. The switching films might be metallic films, or stacks of alternating dielectric films, that change their optical properties under switching electrical loads (planar areas of sufficient dimensions that are switching within ns) and become highly reflective—to the order of 99,999%. Even other reflective, fast switching films can be used—as long as the highly reflective switching state of the layer (film) is used to select the direction of reflection/deflection of the laser beam. Said film would otherwise be in its state of very high transmission and would let the beam pass through—to some next switching layer that would reflect the beam to a slightly different direction. Even adaptive wavefront correction can be achieved by the use of switching films, that in addition to the core idea and concept for the laser scanner are arranged in a×y matrix, like a CCD, hereby granting the high throughput that might be necessary for a GHz laser scanner adaptive wavefront correction. Possible other applications of such a distortion correction elements exist many in adaptive optics. From beam steering in laser machining to bar code scanners, to laser based tv systems the proposed system brings technology into existence that is orders of magnitude faster than what is in use right now. Especially in the area of laser based machining and production, it would be possible to produce with a far higher throughput and precision than with conventional galvanometer based systems.

Claim (Index 5):
a laser scanning system according to  claim 1 .) comprising:\n switching layers, that include phase changes in a fluid medium, that rapidly build up a highly reflective membrane on being electrically switched with selectable electrode lines; said membrane having a tilt angle that depends on firing up a specific selection of possible electrodes in the phase change medium;

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.00585
- Patent Class: 359.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11399166', '13191770', '14933917', '12735287', '15155965']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7514100543881782
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4576809508202712
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7220371440313875
- Mean Citation Score: 141.90940600000005
- Max Citation Score: 148.28795
- Similarity Product: 113.62260331297516

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

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