PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957338
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["425", "375000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus, and corresponding method, feeds build material, in the form of rods, to a drive system in a three-dimensional (3D) printing system. The apparatus dispenses a rod to a media tray and into a first groove defined by a flipper arm. The flipper arm is in a substantially horizontal position supported by a bottom ridge of the media tray. The flipper arm is rotated away from the bottom ridge and toward a stopper coupled to the flipper arm and the media tray. The stopper defines a second groove. The apparatus deposits the rod into the drive system via a feed shaft formed by the first and second grooves of the flipper arm and stopper, respectively. The apparatus enables high-speed 3D printing using the rods by overcoming challenges in loading the rods due to brittleness of the rods.

Claim (Index 5):
The cartridge of  claim 1 , wherein the roller includes at least one protrusion along a portion of its circumference, the at least one protrusion configured to displace rods within the housing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 52.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30303
- Patent Class: 425.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12845859', '14250037', '11753020', '10159729', '15325760']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7341273947316668
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.483860842022833
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7091007394607834
- Mean Citation Score: 160.679946
- Max Citation Score: 162.1379
- Similarity Product: 107.863504522717

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

Dataset: test