PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16035442
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["264", "136000"]

Abstract:
A 3D thermoplastic pultrusion system and method based upon a 3D variable die system and including one or more sets of 3D thermoplastic forming machines to continuously produce thermoplastic composite pultrusions with at least one of varying cross-section geometry and constant surface contours, varying cross-section geometry and varying surface contours, and constant cross-section geometry and varying surface contours. The 3D thermoplastic pultrusion system and method including at least one of multiple pairs of shapeable and flexible bands and a rotating assembly that rotates the one or more sets of 3D thermoplastic forming machines to impart a twist to the thermoplastic composite.

Claim (Index 12):
A 3D thermoplastic pultrusion system for creating a 3D thermoplastic composite pultrusion from a fiber thermoplastic composite material, comprising:\n a heated pultrusion die to heat, consolidate, and press the fiber thermoplastic composite material; one or more sets of 3D thermoplastic forming machines located downstream of the heated pultrusion die, the one or more sets of 3D thermoplastic forming machines including multiple pairs of shapeable and flexible bands, each pair being capable of applying pressure at a specific thickness to the fiber thermoplastic composite material pultrusion from opposite sides; a CNC control system controlling the one or more sets of 3D thermoplastic forming machines to shape the multiple pairs of flexible bands, a 3D thermoplastic pultrusion system computer system includes a computer readable medium configured to store executable programmed modules; a processor communicatively coupled with the computer readable medium configured to execute programmed modules stored therein; one or more computer programmed module elements is stored in the computer readable medium and configured to be executed by the processor, wherein the one or more computer programmed module elements configured to perform the following for a given cross-section of the fiber thermoplastic composite material:\n forming the pultruded heated fiber thermoplastic composite material into a 3D thermoplastic composite pultrusion having varying surface contours in both a pultrusion direction and 90 degrees to the pultrusion direction by applying pressure with the multiple pairs of flexible bands with the one or more sets of 3D thermoplastic forming machines at a zero line speed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14286
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15699101', '15444036', '14864544', '15008814', '15444069']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8340169132389074
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6437204745363426
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8149872693686508
- Mean Citation Score: 536.7377299999998
- Max Citation Score: 614.94635
- Similarity Product: 585.1365524527163

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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