PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15572360
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["073", "800000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for establishing residual stresses in objects, in particular in coated objects, and to a method and an apparatus for coating objects. The method comprises: impinging a surface ( 8 ) of the object ( 5 ) with laser light and generating a hole or a pattern of holes and/or locally heated points in the object ( 5 ); establishing the surface deformations by an optical deforming measuring method after the object ( 5 ) is impinged by laser light; establishing the residual stresses present in the object ( 5 ) from the measured surface deformations, wherein the generation of the hole pattern is carried out by an optical scanning apparatus which comprises an optical deflection and/or modulation arrangement for controllable deflection and/or modulation of the laser light, and/or a focusing arrangement for controllable focusing of the laser light.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for determining residual stresses of an object comprising:\n applying, by a laser exposure system, laser light to a surface of the object;\n creating at least one of a hole, a pattern of holes, or a pattern of locally heated points in the object; \n after applying the laser light to the object, \n using an optical deformation measurement to determine one or more surface deformations; and \n determining, based on the one or more surface deformations, one or more residual stresses in the object.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37879
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14614061', '10371269', '10949396', '14109362', '12289589']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6218549437700416
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4610805885223907
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6057775082452765
- Mean Citation Score: 129.60353519999998
- Max Citation Score: 150.73686
- Similarity Product: 122.15654177008152

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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