PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15751292
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["156", "180000"]

Abstract:
Provided are a device and a method capable of suitable cooling of a fiber bundle without hindering nozzle maintenance work or preparation work before the start of manufacturing. The provided device includes a nozzle which allows the fiber bundle impregnated with thermoplastic resin to pass therethrough while forming the fiber bundle into a tape shape, a cooling roller for cooling the fiber bundle, and a supporting device. The supporting device supports the cooling roller rotatably so as to allow the cooling roller to be moved between a cooling position at which an outer periphery surface of the cooling roller makes contact with the fiber bundle having passed through the nozzle and a retraction position away from the nozzle beyond the cooling portion.

Claim (Index 6):
A method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin tape, the method comprising:\n impregnating a fiber bundle with a melted thermoplastic resin; passing the fiber bundle having passed through the impregnating through a nozzle having an opening as a rectangular slit; cooling the fiber bundle while transferring the fiber bundle downstream by bringing the fiber bundle having passed through the passing into contact with an outer periphery surface of a cooling roller disposed at a cooling position downstream of the nozzle while involving rotation of the cooling roller around a roller center axis of the cooling roller; and moving the cooling roller from the cooling position to a retraction position away from the nozzle beyond the cooling position when no manufacture of the fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin tape is performed through the impregnating, the passing, and the cooling.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84058
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15503857', '13471096', '12294741', '12678762', '13976802']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9043381394170844
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5050957618311257
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8644139016584884
- Mean Citation Score: 236.01031
- Max Citation Score: 271.83633
- Similarity Product: 191.3417470974236

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

Dataset: test