PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16242356
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["219", "061300"]

Abstract:
An apparatus ( 10 ) for joining a predetermined geometrical profile shape from a sheet material (SM) includes a positioning assembly ( 12 ) including a base member ( 14 ) and a frame ( 16 ) that is operable to receive the sheet material (SM), to configure the sheet material in a predetermined orientation and to linearly translate the sheet material along a process direction ( 20 ). A Z-bar ( 22 ) is configured to guide a first longitudinal edge (FE) and second longitudinal edge (SE) of the sheet material (SM) into adjacent alignment along the process direction ( 20 ). A welding and forging assembly ( 60 ) welds and then forges a seam between the first longitudinal edge (FE) and the second longitudinal edge (SE) of the associated sheet material (SM).

Claim (Index 10):
A method of forming a sheet material into a predetermined geometrical profile shape to be welded, the sheet material having a first longitudinal edge and a second longitudinal edge, the method comprising:\n setting an amount of overlap of the first longitudinal edge and the second longitudinal edge by adjusting a guide member having first and second channels; and receiving the first longitudinal edge of the sheet material within the first channel of the guide member and the second longitudinal edge of the sheet material within the second channel of the guide member; wherein the setting an amount of overlap includes adjusting at least one of the first and second channels to change a position of a respective one of the first or second longitudinal edges of the sheet material relative to the other of the first or second longitudinal edges of the sheet material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27941
- Patent Class: 219.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14824101', '13717786', '13779310', '12286775', '11663898']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8003971517617225
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.525414094752538
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7728988460608041
- Mean Citation Score: 204.86562400000005
- Max Citation Score: 350.33496
- Similarity Product: 281.37803754554267

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

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