PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16146592
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["347", "014000"]

Abstract:
A method of collecting a metrology data set of a contoured surface with a metrology system and executing an automatic control plan for printing on a contoured surface is disclosed. The method includes attaching a work piece to a work piece frame and scanning a contoured surface of the work piece to obtain a metrology data set, a three-dimensional point cloud model is generated based on the metrology data set. Additionally, the method includes defining a spatial reference model of the work piece frame, and defining a print path for a print head assembly of a surface treatment assembly. Furthermore, the method includes discretizing the contoured surface into a plurality of regions and the print path is further defined into at least one independent regional print path for each region of the plurality of regions. Moreover, a computer software simulation verifies a control plan for printing on the contoured surface.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of collecting a metrology data set of a contoured surface with a metrology system and executing an automated metrology-based control plan for printing on the contoured surface, the method comprising:\n attaching a work piece, having the contoured surface to be printed on, to a work piece frame including at least one frame target; scanning the contoured surface of the work piece, with the metrology system, to obtain the metrology data set of the work piece having the contoured surface and the work piece frame; generating a three-dimensional point cloud model, with a computing device, of the work piece frame and the work piece having the contoured surface, the three-dimensional point cloud model based on the metrology data set; defining a spatial reference model of the work piece frame based on a detection of the at least one frame target by the metrology system; defining a print path for a print head assembly of a surface treatment assembly to follow as the surface treatment assembly prints along the contoured surface, the print path based off the three-dimensional point cloud model; discretizing the contoured surface of the work piece into a plurality of regions, wherein the print path is further defined into at least one independent regional print path for each region of the plurality of regions; and accessing a computer software, with the computing device, including a simulation module, wherein the computer software receives the plurality of regions of the contoured surface and the at least one independent regional print path for each region of the plurality of regions, and wherein the simulation module executes a simulation to verify a control plan programmed to control the surface treatment assembly during printing along the contoured surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31884
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15646705', '15287167', '15414154', '15251921', '15262597']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7379594612738982
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5004016870032854
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.714203683846837
- Mean Citation Score: 204.329784
- Max Citation Score: 287.29755
- Similarity Product: 229.5409544921636

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

Dataset: test