PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16189433
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["156", "060000"]

Abstract:
A machine for welding an overlapped region of two adjacent strips of material and a method of using the same. The machine includes a housing with front and rear ends, a wheel train engaged with the housing for moving the housing across the material; a nozzle on the housing having a welding head at a free end; the nozzle being positionable at least partially beneath the housing's bottom wall for welding the overlapped region; front and rear pressure rollers engaged with the housing, where the front roller is positioned forwardly of the welding head and the rear roller is positioned rearwardly of the welding head; wherein the rear pressure roller applies pressure to the overlapped region when the wheel train moves the housing in a forward direction; and the front pressure roller applies pressure to the overlapped region when the wheel train moves the housing in a reverse direction.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of heat welding a series of overlapped regions of adjacent strips of flexible material that extend from a first end of a structure to a second end of the structure; said method comprising the steps of:\n positioning a welding machine in a first orientation; moving the welding machine in a first direction; welding a first overlapped region while moving the welding machine in the first direction; laterally moving the welding machine to a second overlapped region; maintaining the welding machine in the first orientation; moving the welding machine in a second direction, where the second direction is opposite to the first direction; and welding the second overlapped region while moving the welding machine in the second direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44615
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13113316', '12577604', '12577558', '11324886', '11252867']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8724186433887747
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4847873880036734
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8336555178502646
- Mean Citation Score: 189.359962
- Max Citation Score: 216.81754
- Similarity Product: 176.42605211882832

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