PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868481
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["419", "PCA001"]

Abstract:
A variety of additive manufacturing techniques can be adapted to fabricate a substantially net shape object from a computerized model using materials that can be debound and sintered into a fully dense metallic part or the like. However, during sintering, the net shape will shrink as binder escapes and the base material fuses into a dense final part. If the foundation beneath the object does not shrink in a corresponding fashion, the resulting stresses throughout the object can lead to fracturing, warping or other physical damage to the object resulting in a failed fabrication. To address this issue, a variety of techniques are disclosed for substrates and build plates that contract in a manner complementary to the object during debinding and sintering.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 5  wherein the object has two or more discrete and separate contact surfaces in a plane along a top surface of the substrate, wherein the substrate comprises two or more corresponding separate substrate regions formed about a projection of each of the two or more discrete and separate contact surfaces, the substrate further comprising at least one tie bar coupling the two or more discrete and separate contact surfaces to one another in order to facilitate a movement of the corresponding separate substrate regions in a manner geographically matched to a motion of the two or more discrete and separate contact surfaces during at least one of debind and shrinkage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.6375
- Patent Class: 419.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15469444', '15469170', '15469432', '15469371', '15722445']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7553648856792451
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5398306276013203
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7338114598714526
- Mean Citation Score: 347.506406
- Max Citation Score: 389.9284
- Similarity Product: 275.5480242881775

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

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