PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16082587
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["362", "606000"]

Abstract:
A backlight device  12  includes LEDs  15 , a light guide plate  17  having a light entering edge surface  17 a  opposite the LEDs  15  and having plate surfaces one of which is alight exit plate surface  17 b , and a light collecting portion  22  including unit light collecting portions  22 a  that extend in a normal direction of the light entering edge surface  17 a  on the light exit plate surface  17 b  and are arranged in a perpendicular direction perpendicular to the normal direction. The light guide plate  17  includes an opposite edge portion  23  that is opposite from an end portion thereof having the light entering edge surface  17 a , the opposite edge portion  23  has an edge surface a part of which is a curved edge surface  24  having a curved planar shape and the opposite edge portion  23  has the light exit plate surface  17 b  a part of which is a light collecting portion non-forming section  25  on which no light collecting portion  22  is formed.

Claim (Index 6):
The lighting device according to  claim 5 , wherein some of the unit collecting portions of the light collecting portion reach an opposite edge surface of the light guide plate opposite from the light entering edge surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.83871
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16088461', '15533954', '15533946', '15512590', '15522457']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8536881663004635
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5178132003026995
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8201006697006871
- Mean Citation Score: 304.959284
- Max Citation Score: 328.99982
- Similarity Product: 276.28377330203296

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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