Guide to STN Patent Databases – Basic Version - Paton - TU Ilmenau

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Guide to STN Patent Databases
incomplete. It is advisable to SET ABBREVATIONS ON in order to search for abbreviations automatically. (The current
abbreviation list can be displayed with HELP ABB in the databases.)
=> FIL WPINDEX
=> SET ABB ON
=> S HARD DISK DRIVE
135496 HARD
121185 DISK
792044 DRIVE
7385 HARD DISK DRIVE
(HARD(W)DISK(W)DRIVE)
2997 HDD
L11 8977 HARD DISK DRIVE
Spelling. With SET SPELLINGS ON the system will search both British and American spellings automatically:
=> FIL INPADOCDB
=> SET SPELLINGS ON PERM
=> S ?ALUMINUM?
140565 ?ALUMINUM?
169182 ?ALUMINIUM?
L2 290476 ?ALUMINUM?
(?ALUMINUM? OR ?ALUMINIUM?)
If SET SPELLING is not on, this feature can be activated by appending it to the search command:
=> SET SPELLINGS OFF
=> S GLASS FIBER? SPE=ON
360911 GLASS
369326 FIBER?
256257 FIBRE?
566579 FIBER?
(FIBER? OR FIBRE?)
L1 37192 GLASS FIBER?
(GLASS(W)FIBER?)
17.4 Using proximity operators with searches in text fields
Proximity operators offer the opportunity of searching with a higher precision, compared to the Boolean operators
AND, OR, NOT, by searching for the terms entered only within a certain scope (e.g. in one field, in one sentence, or
within a specified distance). The way proximity operators are used is different between the databases with a
segmented structure and other databases, possibly with special features in any of the databases. Therefore help is
available in all of the databases (HELP (S), HELP (P), HELP (L) ).
In literature databases and in most patent databases with static or dynamic concept proximity operators are used
like this:
Patent databases with static or dynamic concept
Work Unit = Record AND, OR, NOT
Field (L)
Paragraph (P) full text databases, e.g. USPATFULL
Sentence (S)
Compound terms (A) = (N),
(W) = ()