PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16020250
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["359", "223100"]

Abstract:
High resolution printing systems that utilize high power laser diode bars and digital mirror devices (DMD) require side-by-side stacking of illumination modules to stitching of the image from each module to form a longer total image width. An inline illumination optical system having a refractive prism and Total Internal Reflection (TIR) prism pair with an air gap along with a light guide transporting light beams at a compound angle to the prism pair eliminates the need for any axial rotation of the laser and light guide, and enables side-by-side module stacking. The illumination optical system includes an illumination module having a light source, the light guide, a DMD array and a Refractive TIR (RTIR) prism. The system also includes a DMD housing containing the DMD array and having a width within which the illumination module is confined to allow side-by-side stacking.

Claim (Index 8):
The illumination optical system of  claim 2 , the DMD array having an array of micromirrors in 2D configuration tilted around a diagonal axis, the DMD array of micromirrors being planar with a row direction and a column direction orthogonal to the row direction, both the row direction and the column direction being within the plane of the DMD array, the light beam being transported by the light guide and out of an exit face of the light guide at a compound angle relative to the row and column directions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85542
- Patent Class: 359.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15400848', '14537036', '13874676', '10739820', '11234090']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7930123944767036
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.596400651512536
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7733512201802869
- Mean Citation Score: 297.398504
- Max Citation Score: 540.9024
- Similarity Product: 465.4300607849121

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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