PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15985064
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["073", "862624"]

Abstract:
The optical fiber sensing method of the present invention includes steps of: joining heat shrinkable tubes to two ends of a sensing segment of an optical fiber; coupling a fixing element on the heat shrinkable tube below the sensing segment; detachably connecting at least one floating element to the fixing element; placing the floating element into a fluid; and providing an input signal to the sensing segment and generating an output signal after the input signal is processed by the sensing segment, wherein the tensile force applied to the sensing segment would change with variation of the buoyant force upon the floating element, resulting in change of the output signal. Accordingly, the optical fiber sensing method has numerous advantages, including rapid on-site construction, recyclability of components and changeability of design parameters.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical fiber sensing method, comprising:\n providing an optical fiber measuring unit, a plurality of heat shrinkable tubes and at least one fixing element, wherein (i) the heat shrinkable tubes are fastened on an optical fiber of the optical fiber measuring unit, (ii) the optical fiber has at least one sensing segment, (iii) the heat shrinkable tubes are fastened at an upper end and a lower end of the at least one sensing segment, respectively, and (iv) the at least one fixing element is sleeved and fastened on the heat shrinkable tube at the lower end of the at least one sensing segment; detachably connecting at least one floating element to the at least one fixing element, so that the at least one floating element provides tensile force on the at least one sensing segment of the optical fiber; placing the at least one floating element into a fluid, so that the fluid provides buoyant force on the at least one floating element; and driving the optical fiber measuring unit to provide an input signal to the at least one sensing segment and generating an output signal after the input signal is processed by the at least one sensing segment, wherein the tensile force applied to the at least one sensing segment changes with variation of the buoyant force on the at least one floating element, resulting in change of the output signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90667
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10724865', '15186881', '14283402', '15000540', '13742849']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6431560686946896
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4729875302126499
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6261392148464856
- Mean Citation Score: 164.051876
- Max Citation Score: 173.38556
- Similarity Product: 135.70527142224788

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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