PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16341505
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["356", "429000"]

Abstract:
A method for detecting a deflection or relative deflection between a source module and a detection module in a scanning apparatus and configured as a sensor pair for scanning transmission measurement of sheet material being transported in a machine direction through a sensing gap formed between the source module and the detection module is provided. The source module is arranged on a first side of the sensing gap and emits a sensing radiation or sensing energy radiation towards the sensing gap, and the detection module is arranged on a second side of the sensing gap opposite to the first side and detects the radiation from the source module and transmitted through the sensing gap. The method includes: attaching a removable blocking device to the detection module, so that a radiation-blocking area of the blocking device partially blocks, in an asymmetrical manner, a sub-area of the cross-sectional area of the radiation impinging onto a detection module aperture of the detection module; and performing a partially-blocked scanning process during which the source module and the detection module are jointly moved in a cross direction of the scanning apparatus, the source module emits the radiation and the detection module detects the radiation from the source module having transmitted through the sensing gap, whereby a selected portion of the radiation corresponding to the sub-area covered by the radiation-blocking area is blocked from being detected by the detection module aperture, whereby a partially-blocked sensor signal is obtained from the radiation detected by the detection module.

Claim (Index 15):
A blocking device for detecting a deflection in a scanning apparatus configured for scanning transmission measurement of sheet material transported in a machine direction through a sensing gap formed between a source module and a detection module of the scanning apparatus from a partially-blocked sensor signal obtained from a partially-blocked scanning process,\n the source module arranged on a first side of the sensing gap and emitting a scanning radiation towards the sensing gap, and the detection module arranged on a second side of the sensing gapes opposite to the first side and detecting the radiation from the source module and transmitted through the sensing gap, during the partially-blocked scanning process the source module and the detection module jointly moved in a cross direction of the scanning apparatus, the source module emitting the radiation and the detection module detecting the radiation from the source module having transmitted through the sensing gap, whereby a selected portion of the radiation corresponding to the sub-area covered by the radiation-blocking area is blocked from reaching the detection module, whereby the partially-blocked sensor signal is obtained from the radiation detected by the detection module.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.78723
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10994862', '14844778', '14262186', '15974424', '12566180']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6702924941936766
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4723360897530307
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6504968537496121
- Mean Citation Score: 157.43321799999995
- Max Citation Score: 166.87062
- Similarity Product: 131.34081434755322

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

Dataset: test