PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16166968
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["425", "375000"]

Abstract:
A system and corresponding method for additive manufacturing of a three-dimensional (3D) object to improve packing density of a powder bed used in the manufacturing process. The system and corresponding method enable higher density packing of the powder. Such higher density packing leads to better mechanical interlocking of particles, leading to lower sintering temperatures and reduced deformation of the 3D object during sintering. An embodiment of the system comprises means for adjusting a volume of a powder metered onto a top surface of the powder bed to produce an adjusted metered volume and means for spreading the adjusted metered volume to produce a smooth volume for forming a smooth layer of the powder with controlled packing density across the top surface of the powder bed. The controlled packing density enables uniform shrinkage, without warping, of the 3D object during sintering to produce higher quality 3D printed objects.

Claim (Index 37):
The system of  claim 36 , wherein the container is operably coupled to the hopper.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 89.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21127
- Patent Class: 425.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11335282', '11146950', '14761364', '12192412', '10260224']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7585477382066864
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4999347362213753
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7326864380081554
- Mean Citation Score: 162.898562
- Max Citation Score: 168.581
- Similarity Product: 95.00904684782029

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

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