PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16068170
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["372", "038020"]

Abstract:
An object is to provide a technology capable of suppressing life deterioration of a laser light source device. A laser light source device includes a laser bank having a plurality of semiconductor laser elements, a drive part for applying an electric current to the plurality of semiconductor laser elements of the laser bank, a light intensity detection part for detecting light intensity output from the laser bank, a temperature detection part for detecting a temperature of the laser bank, and a control part for determining an electric current limit value based on the detected temperature, and for controlling the electric current of the drive part based on the detected light intensity and the electric current limit value.

Claim (Index 4):
A method of controlling a laser light source device, the method comprising:\n detecting a temperature of a laser bank having a plurality of semiconductor laser elements; detecting light intensity output from the laser bank; and determining an electric current limit value being a limit value of an electric current applied to the plurality of semiconductor laser elements of the laser bank based on the detected temperature of the laser bank, and controlling the electric current based on the detect light intensity and the electric current limit value, wherein a first temperature range and a second temperature range that is higher than the first temperature range are defined for the temperature of the laser bank, and the electric current limit value comprises an electric current upper limit value for preventing COD deterioration of the plurality of semiconductor laser elements in the first temperature range, and an electric current upper limit value for preventing COD deterioration and gentle thermal deterioration of the plurality of semiconductor laser elements in the second temperature range.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.58333
- Patent Class: 372.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12935155', '15029427', '10355285', '13040535', '12357713']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7964525696316804
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4737790973230719
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7641852224008195
- Mean Citation Score: 172.72251
- Max Citation Score: 183.15463
- Similarity Product: 145.09710096509576

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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