PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864119
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["156", "580200"]

Abstract:
The sonotrode and anvil of Applicant's issued U.S. Pat. No. 8,376,016, for advanced ultrasonic welding of work pieces, are readily incorporated into new form-fill-seal machines, but existing machines with heat-seal stations pose difficult problems for swapping of the sealing packages. Kits enabling heat station replacement with the Applicant's patented sonotrode and anvil include: a housing; a rail fixed thereto; anvil and sonotrode support members; and a parallel gripper. Each of the anvil and sonotrode support members is slidably attached to the rail(s) and are also connected to a respective piston of the gripper, permitting actuation of each through cycling of the gripper pistons. The improved sonotrode/anvil combination each include corresponding pluralities of energy directors arranged into a three-dimensional grid pattern that produces narrower weld regions, which exhibit greater durability, permitting use of less packaging material.

Claim (Index 1):
An ultrasonic welding device, for use in ultrasonic welding of a pouch at a sealing station of a form-fill-seal machine, said ultrasonic welding device comprising:\n a housing; a parallel gripper secured to a portion of said housing; a linear rail fixedly secured to a portion of said housing; an anvil support member, said anvil support member slidably received upon at least a portion of said linear rail, said anvil support member connected to a first piston of said parallel gripper; said anvil support member configured to secure an anvil thereto; a sonotrode support member, said sonotrode support member slidably received upon at least a portion of said linear rail, said sonotrode support member connected to a second piston of said parallel gripper; said sonotrode support member configured to secure a sonotrode thereto; wherein said first and second pistons of said parallel gripper are configured to cause respective translation of said anvil support member and said sonotrode support member, relative to said housing, from a first respective position to a second respective position, said respective translation of said anvil support member and said sonotrode support member to said second respective positions comprising convergent translation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57576
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14056030', '15359639', '13751363', '14056050', '15492181']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9348486255544451
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6795268314429387
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.9093164461432944
- Mean Citation Score: 637.498338
- Max Citation Score: 702.92725
- Similarity Product: 667.5927164193391

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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