PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16146937
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["156", "064000"]

Abstract:
Pin tool assemblies for friction stir welding and apparatus and methods that include the pin tool assemblies. The pin tool assemblies include an outer member, an inner member, and a stop. The outer member includes an inner surface that defines an elongate internal cavity and an external shoulder that includes an opening to the elongate internal cavity. The inner member includes a welding end, extends at least partially within the elongate internal cavity, and projects from the opening such that the welding end is external the elongate internal cavity. The pin tool assembly is configured to permit motion of the inner member relative to the outer member. The stop defines a plurality of stop configurations. Each of the stop configurations restricts motion of the inner member relative to the outer member in a stop direction to define a corresponding stop distance between the welding end and the external shoulder.

Claim (Index 16):
A method of operating a friction stir welding apparatus (FSWA), the method comprising:\n determining a desired stop configuration of a plurality of stop configurations for a pin tool assembly of the FSWA; and adjusting a stop configuration of the pin tool assembly to the desired stop configuration by changing a location of an adjustment mechanism of the pin tool assembly, wherein the pin tool assembly includes an outer member, which defines an elongate internal cavity and an external shoulder, and an inner member, which extends at least partially within the elongate internal cavity and defines a welding end that projects from the elongate internal cavity via an opening that is defined within the external shoulder, wherein the desired stop configuration corresponds to a desired distance between the welding end and the external shoulder, and further wherein the changing includes modifying a relative orientation at which the inner member, within the elongate internal cavity, operatively couples to the outer member via the adjustment mechanism.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.71186
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14606297', '11133083', '11100878', '13175525', '10237506']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8998576532326649
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.592497837774362
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8691216716868345
- Mean Citation Score: 289.52269200000006
- Max Citation Score: 507.92862
- Similarity Product: 473.212719499036

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

Dataset: test