PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15886850
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["250", "50400R"]

Abstract:
A sterilizing device comprises a light guiding member and an ultraviolet (UV) light source. The light guiding member has a surface. The UV light source emits UV light rays such that the UV light rays are guided into the guiding member based on a total internal reflection. When an object contacts or comes close to the surface, an evanescent wave from the UV light rays irradiates on the object.

Claim (Index 24):
A manufacturing method for a sterilizing device, comprising:\n providing a light guiding member having a tapered peripheral surface and a front surface connected to the tapered peripheral surface, wherein the tapered peripheral surface is formed adjacent to the light guiding member, and the light guiding member is an unitary element; providing an ultraviolet (UV) light source that emits UV light rays so that the UV light rays are guided into the light guiding member from the tapered peripheral surface and propagate inside the light guiding member based on a total internal reflection, wherein a material of the light guiding member is free of metal; and providing an object, wherein when the object contacts or comes close to the front surface, the UV light rays emit out from the front surface of the light guiding member and irradiate on the object due to a frustrated total internal reflection phenomenon.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 92.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72727
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12231676', '15291361', '15854647', '12762385', '13582591']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6982208312484741
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4711736599042447
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6755161141140512
- Mean Citation Score: 157.77356
- Max Citation Score: 167.82617
- Similarity Product: 122.2523233752644

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