PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907748
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["358", "497000"]

Abstract:
A flatbed scanner document scanner includes a large format document scanner body accommodating a rectangular rigid frame with an upwardly facing plane face and a rectangular transparent plate for supporting a large format document. The rectangular transparent plate overlies the upwardly facing plane face all around the metal frame. The scanner also includes a movable carriage configured to move along and below the rectangular transparent plate and carrying a line camera extending across the rectangular transparent plate. The rectangular transparent plate and the metal frame are bonded together by a hard glue seam that runs on the upwardly facing plane face of the metal frame. A predetermined deflected shape can be formed when the bonded plate and frame are turned upside-down. The rectangular metal frame can deform under its own load to a cambered shape, a flat shape or a less deflected shape when turned upright in a normal position.

Claim (Index 14):
A method of manufacturing a flatbed scanner comprising a frame, with frame elements with upwardly facing plane faces; a transparent plate, for supporting a document; and a movable carriage configured to move along and below the transparent plate and carrying a line camera extending across the transparent plate; the method comprising:\n arranging the transparent plate on a reference bench with leveled support faces positioned to rigidly support the transparent plate at least at support positions along its edges on a supported side; temporarily performing one or both of:\n inflicting a deflection or a cambering of the transparent plate such that it assumes a double curved shape and releasing the deflection or cambering; and \n inflicting a twisting torque to the lateral elements of the metal frame and releasing the twisting torque; \n before releasing the deflection or cambering and/or before releasing the twisting torque:\n applying a glue seam on one or both of the upwardly facing plane faces of the lateral elements of the metal frame and on the transparent plate along its edges opposite the supported side; and \n curing the glue seam to harden to a hard glue seam such that the transparent plate is rigidly bonded to the metal frame by the hard gluing seam; \n when the glue seam is hardened, releasing the deflection or cambering and/or the torque; and installing the metal frame with the transparent plate in a flatbed scanner body.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01282
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15908216', '12502053', '12822748', '10063739', '11124976']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4836235729463912
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5181142742248315
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4870726430742352
- Mean Citation Score: 188.85267800000003
- Max Citation Score: 302.5769
- Similarity Product: 211.16089708291287

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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