PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15890745
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["521", "137000"]

Abstract:
A method for making a low density foamed article includes placing a desired amount of thermoplastic polyurethane foam beads in a cavity of an injection mold and closing the mold; combining in an extruder connected to the mold a molten polymer selected from the group consisting of thermoplastic polyurethane elastomers and thermoplastic ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers with both a physical or chemical blowing agent other than a supercritical fluid present in an amount up to about 15 wt % based on molten polymer weight and a supercritical fluid that is at least one of about 0.1 to about 5 weight percent of supercritical CO 2  based on molten polymer weight or about 0.1 to about 4 weight percent of supercritical N 2  based on molten polymer weight, to form a mixture and injecting the mixture into the mold and foaming the mixture to form the low density foamed article.

Claim (Index 26):
A method for making a low density foamed article, comprising:\n placing an amount of thermoplastic polyurethane foam beads in a cavity of a mold and closing the mold, wherein the thermoplastic polyurethane foam beads have a density of from about 0.01 g/cm 3  to about 0.1 gm/cm 3 ; combining in an extruder connected to the mold a molten elastomeric ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer with (a) chemical blowing agent and (b) a supercritical fluid, to form a mixture, wherein the blowing agent (a) is present in an amount up to about 15 weight percent based on total polymer weight in the mixture and the supercritical fluid (b) comprises at least one of about 0.1 to about 5 weight percent of supercritical CO 2  based on total polymer weight and about 0.1 to about 4 weight percent of supercritical N 2  based on total polymer weight, and injecting the mixture into the mold and foaming the mixture to form a foamed article, injecting the mixture into the mold at an injection pressure of from 110 MPa to about 207 MPa; and wherein the foamed article has a density of about 0.2 to less than 0.3 g/cm 3 .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8875
- Patent Class: 521.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13958517', '13958527', '13765273', '14817623', '13545532']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8290380250992412
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5295469941132146
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7990889220006385
- Mean Citation Score: 316.700884
- Max Citation Score: 361.64923
- Similarity Product: 261.7547082586002

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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