PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16157810
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["029", "889210"]

Abstract:
In one aspect, a fan assembly is provided that can be manufactured while producing a significantly reduced amount of scrap material. More specifically, the fan assembly utilizes a hub ring and one or more hub strips to support a plurality of blades rather than a solid center disc or end disc used by some prior approaches. In another aspect, a method is provided that includes bending a member into an annular configuration and joining end portions of the member together to rigidly fix the member in the annular configuration. The rigid annular member may be used as an end ring, a hub ring, an orifice, or other component, while producing significantly less scrap material than traditional approaches.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 1  wherein the elongated, flat member has a length, a width perpendicular to the length defined between the edges, and a thickness perpendicular to the width that is less than the width; and\n bending the elongated, flat member into the annular configuration includes bending the flat member around an axis extending parallel to the thickness.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80282
- Patent Class: 29.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13022250', '14517212', '12681231', '13370468', '13776187']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.889385550459253
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.52363928879965
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8528109242932927
- Mean Citation Score: 235.513274
- Max Citation Score: 330.55417
- Similarity Product: 209.95836234567523

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