PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15764180
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["428", "099000"]

Abstract:
A method of mechanically securing a first object including a thermoplastic material in a solid state to a second object with a generally flat sheet portion, with a perforation of the sheet portion, and with the sheet portion having an edge along the perforation is provided, wherein the first object is positioned relative to the second object so that the edge is in contact with the thermoplastic material and wherein mechanical vibration energy is coupled into the assembly including the first and second objects until a flow portion of the thermoplastic material due to friction heat generated between the edge and the thermoplastic material becomes flowable and flows around the edge to at least partially embed the edge in the thermoplastic material. After the mechanical vibration stops, the thermoplastic material is caused to re-solidify, whereby the re-solidified thermoplastic material at least partially embedding the edge anchors the first object in the second object.

Claim (Index 194):
A device, comprising\n an anchoring part, wherein the anchoring part comprises a contact side and an opposite side that is opposite the contact side with respect to a z direction, and comprises thermoplastic material in a solid state at least at an attachment location on the contact side, whereby the anchoring part is capable of being secured to a second object with a generally flat sheet portion having an edge, by a method that comprises coupling mechanical vibration energy into at least one of the anchoring part and of the second object while the contact side and the second object are pressed against each other; and an adjustment part;\n wherein the adjustment part and the anchoring part equipped so that a mutual z-position is adjustable and so that the adjustment part is fixable with respect to the anchoring part the parts are in an adjusted relative z-position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 115.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35294
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15565538', '15563674', '15517005', '14649399', '15523724']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8994625387872244
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4946348604088485
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8589797709493867
- Mean Citation Score: 243.079192
- Max Citation Score: 275.33182
- Similarity Product: 232.0259661613154

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test