PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15945844
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["164", "463000"]

Abstract:
A continuous casting apparatus includes a first belt carried by a first upstream pulley and a first downstream pulley, a second belt carried by a second upstream pulley and a second downstream pulley, and a mold region defined by a first mold support section arranged behind the first belt and a second mold support section arranged behind the second belt. The first mold support section supports the first belt and defines a shape of the first belt in the mold region and the second mold support section supports the second belt and defines a shape of the second belt in the mold region. At least one of the first mold support section and the second mold support section includes a transition portion and a generally planar portion downstream from the transition portion. The transition portion has a variable radius configured to receive molten metal from a metal feeding device.

Claim (Index 10):
A method for continuous casting a metal strip, comprising the steps of:\n arranging a first belt on a first upstream pulley and a first downstream pulley; arranging a second belt on a second upstream pulley and a second downstream pulley; forming a mold region by arranging a first mold support section behind the first belt intermediate the first upstream pulley and the first downstream pulley and arranging a second mold support section behind the second belt intermediate the second upstream pulley and the second downstream pulley, at least one of the first mold support section and the second mold support section having a curved transition portion downstream from the first upstream pulley and the second upstream pulley, and a generally planar portion downstream from the curved transition portion; and feeding molten metal onto the curved transition portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.16327
- Patent Class: 164.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11474045', '10377376', '10846423', '11253992', '11724449']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7878725297140776
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4999829822112012
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.75908357496379
- Mean Citation Score: 259.204548
- Max Citation Score: 288.4771
- Similarity Product: 235.6649943428993

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