PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15872787
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["347", "016000"]

Abstract:
A base material processing apparatus includes a transport mechanism, a force detection part, a meandering prediction part, a processing part, and a controller. The transport mechanism transports an elongated strip-shaped base material in a longitudinal direction thereof along a transport path aimed by a plurality of rollers of the transport mechanism. The force detection part detects a force applied to a sensing roller in an axial direction of a rotation shaft thereof, the sensing roller being at least one of the plurality of rollers. The controller predicts the meandering state of the base material to output meandering prediction information, based on the force applied to the sensing roller in the axial direction of the rotation shaft thereof. The meandering prediction part corrects the widthwise position of the base material relative to the processing part, based on the meandering prediction information. Thus, the base material processing apparatus is capable of sensing the meandering state of the base material through the use of the existing rollers of the transport mechanism in the processing part, and is capable of correcting the widthwise position of the base material relative to the processing part.

Claim (Index 10):
A method of processing an elongated strip-shaped base material in a processing position lying on a transport path formed by a plurality of rollers while transporting said base material in a longitudinal direction thereof along said transport path, said method comprising the steps of:\n a) detecting a force applied in an axial direction of a rotation shaft of a sensing roller, said sensing roller being at least one of said plurality of rollers; b) predicting the meandering of said base material to output meandering prediction information, based on the force applied in the axial direction of the rotation shaft of said sensing roller; and c) correcting the widthwise position of said base material, based on said meandering prediction information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.1875
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15657790', '14371527', '15276969', '15837850', '11449840']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7395931184788684
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4804419850102311
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7136780051320047
- Mean Citation Score: 182.51687
- Max Citation Score: 213.91315
- Similarity Product: 161.26525865352153

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

Dataset: test