PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15879439
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["065", "029110"]

Abstract:
A nozzle deposits a filament of viscous, molten glass onto a print bed, while the print bed rotates about a vertical axis and translates in x, y, and z directions. The deposition is computer controlled, such that the resulting deposited filament forms a desired glass object that is solid after it anneals. One or more motors rotate the print bed such that the direction of deposition of the molten glass is constant relative to the nozzle, even though the print bed is translating in different directions relative to the nozzle. Keeping the direction of deposition constant relative to the nozzle tends to prevent the extruded filament of molten glass from experiencing large, changing, tensile and shear forces that would otherwise occur and that would otherwise damage the filament.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising a nozzle extruding material onto a print bed, wherein:\n (a) during the extruding, the material is deposited in a deposition direction; (b) one or more motors actuate the print bed in such a way that\n (i) during the extruding, the print bed undergoes a translation relative to the nozzle, which translation has an x-component and a y-component, the x-component being movement in a direction parallel to an x-axis, the y-component being movement in a direction parallel to a y-axis, and the x- and y-axes being perpendicular to each other, and \n (ii) during the translation, the print bed substantially rotates about an axis that is parallel to a z-axis, the z-axis being perpendicular to the x-axis and to the y-axis; \n (c) the deposition direction is substantially constant relative to the nozzle throughout the entire translation; and (d) the nozzle is stationary relative to a fixed position throughout the entire translation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 40.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97183
- Patent Class: 65.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15365577', '15878167', '14845803', '14848006', '15145261']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.722949812306242
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5142158614408123
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.702076417219699
- Mean Citation Score: 200.27547
- Max Citation Score: 238.37936
- Similarity Product: 154.8588549321747

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

Dataset: test