PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16046973
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["347", "238000"]

Abstract:
An imaging device for projecting individually controllable laser beams onto an imaging surface movable in an X-direction. The device includes a plurality of semiconductor chips each comprising a plurality of laser beam emitting elements arranged in a main array of M·N. The chips are mounted such that each pair of adjacent chips in the Y-direction are offset from one another in the X-direction and, if activated continuously, the emitted laser beams of the two chips of said pair trace on the imaging surface a set of parallel lines that are substantially uniformly spaced in the Y-direction. In addition to the M·N elements of the main array, each chip comprises at least one additional column on one or each side, each additional column containing at least one selectively operable element capable of compensating for any misalignment in the Y-direction in the relative positioning of the adjacent chips on the support.

Claim (Index 21):
A method of projecting individually controllable laser beams onto an imaging surface that is movable relative to an imaging device, the method comprising:\n providing an imaging device for projecting individually controllable laser beams onto an imaging surface, the imaging device and imaging surface being movable relative to each other in a reference X-direction, the imaging device comprising: a plurality of semiconductor chips each of which comprises a plurality of individually controllable laser beam emitting elements arranged in a two dimensional main array of M rows and N columns, the emitting elements in each row having a uniform spacing A r  and the emitting elements in each column having a uniform spacing a c ; the chips are mounted on a support such that the main arrays of each pair of chips that are adjacent one another in a reference Y-direction, transverse to the X-direction, are offset from one another in the X-direction; wherein were all the emitting elements to be activated continuously and were the chips and the imaging surface to be relatively moved in the X-direction, the emitted laser beams of the two chips of the pair would trace on the imaging surface 2\u00b7M\u00b7N parallel lines that extend in the X-direction and are uniformly spaced from one another in the Y-direction, by a nominal distance A r /M, whereby the laser beams of each chip trace a set of M\u00b7N lines without overlapping the set of lines of the other chip; each chip further comprises at least one additional column in addition to the N columns of elements of the main array, the additional column being disposed on one side of the main array along the Y-direction, and containing at least one selectively operable laser emitting element capable of tracing at least one additional line that lies between the respective sets of M\u00b7N lines of each chip and that is spaced from two adjacent lines, each from a respective one of the sets, by a distance smaller than the uniform element spacing in each row A r ; and, individually projecting the laser beams onto the imaging surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91463
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15363129', '15364428', '12270945', '10319800', '13663519']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7376569888672151
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5364394726031856
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7175352372408121
- Mean Citation Score: 236.76881200000005
- Max Citation Score: 385.89786
- Similarity Product: 339.9229898439002

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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