PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864465
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["073", "818000"]

Abstract:
In one implementation, a material testing apparatus includes an actuator to drive a piston according to electronic control signals; a load head to supply a load to a material specimen in a first dimension, wherein force is applied to the load head by the piston; a plurality of load line displacement (LLD) reference points that extend radially outward from the load head; a plurality of LLD measuring devices that correspond to the plurality of LLD reference points, each of the plurality of LLD measuring devices (i) being positioned to detect a position of a corresponding LLD reference point along the first dimension and (ii) being configured to transmit position signals to a controller; and a load cell to measure the load supplied to the material specimen by the load head, wherein the load cell is configured to transmit load signals to the controller.

Claim (Index 20):
A method for performing a performance test on a material specimen, the method comprising:\n performing feedback control on a material testing apparatus that includes (i) a load head to supply a load to a material specimen, (ii) a plurality of load line displacement (LLD) reference points that extend radially outward from the load head, (iii) a plurality of LLD measuring devices to provide position signals indicating positions of the plurality of LLD reference points, and (iv) a load cell to provide load signals for the load supplied to the material specimen, the feedback control comprising repeatedly performing the following: receiving the position signals from the plurality of LLD measuring devices, receiving the load signals from the load cell, combining the position signals into a combined position, determining an LLD measurement for the material specimen based on the combined position, comparing the LLD measurement with an target loading rate for the performance test, determining the control signals for the actuator based on the comparison and the load signals, and providing the control signals to the actuator; and determining a result for the material specimen under the performance test based on, at least, changes in the combined position and the load signals during the performance test.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35821
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13564794', '11004308', '14991724', '10264826', '15372354']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6376216602984252
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4882253522465964
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6226820294932423
- Mean Citation Score: 170.69061000000005
- Max Citation Score: 210.83328
- Similarity Product: 160.41178738311768

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

Dataset: test