PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16154374
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["250", "395000"]

Abstract:
A method for detecting electron beam filament wear in an electron beam source, the method comprising the steps of: enlarging a beam spot emanating from the electron beam source on a work table to a predetermined minimum size, capturing an image of the beam spot on the work table by a camera, comparing the captured image of the beam spot with a reference image, and detecting filament wear if the captured image is deviating more than a predetermined value from the reference image.

Claim (Index 7):
A method for forming a three-dimensional article, the method comprising:\n successively depositing individual layers of powder material that are fused together with an electron beam from an electron beam source so as to form the article, and performing the beam filament wear detecting method according to  claim 1 .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97778
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12778756', '15820955', '12165279', '12639206', '12488407']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7065036846423538
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4580054239193826
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6816538585700568
- Mean Citation Score: 147.152494
- Max Citation Score: 155.61702
- Similarity Product: 119.84773464500428

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test