PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15890419
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["118", "200000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses herein provide for the application of viscous fluids, such as adhesives, in pre-determined patterns, to an advancing substrate. The fluid applicator comprises a slot die applicator and a substrate carrier. The slot die applicator comprises a plurality of applicator channels, each applicator channel being controlled by a switching valve, and wherein the switching valves are independently switchable.

Claim (Index 2):
The apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the distance of the channel between each of the switching valves and each of the corresponding slot openings is substantially equal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.51111
- Patent Class: 118.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14993154', '13052139', '13459363', '13685817', '13685844']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8752246311846624
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5388496567476744
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8415871337409636
- Mean Citation Score: 401.036776
- Max Citation Score: 406.84692
- Similarity Product: 261.5044569129753

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