PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15742855
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["362", "235000"]

Abstract:
In order to make it possible to image the surface of a workpiece from a plurality of directions without reducing the amount of light to be projected to the workpiece, a light projection device having light emitting surfaces opposite to the workpiece and formed with a slit allowing light reflected by the workpiece to pass from the light emitting surface side toward an opposite side thereof is adapted such that the slit is formed in a tapered shape whose width gradually increases from the light emitting surface side toward the opposite side.

Claim (Index 9):
The light projection device according to  claim 4 , further comprising:\n a connecting member connecting the pair of casings, wherein the connecting member includes a slit width changing mechanism adapted to change a separation distance between the pair of casings and change the width of the slit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80769
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11910291', '13805062', '13764743', '14347831', '15257940']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.82607383330777
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4711299630109042
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7905794462780834
- Mean Citation Score: 152.097826
- Max Citation Score: 159.40567
- Similarity Product: 109.55528361400664

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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