PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16189433
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["156", "060000"]

Abstract:
A machine for welding an overlapped region of two adjacent strips of material and a method of using the same. The machine includes a housing with front and rear ends, a wheel train engaged with the housing for moving the housing across the material; a nozzle on the housing having a welding head at a free end; the nozzle being positionable at least partially beneath the housing's bottom wall for welding the overlapped region; front and rear pressure rollers engaged with the housing, where the front roller is positioned forwardly of the welding head and the rear roller is positioned rearwardly of the welding head; wherein the rear pressure roller applies pressure to the overlapped region when the wheel train moves the housing in a forward direction; and the front pressure roller applies pressure to the overlapped region when the wheel train moves the housing in a reverse direction.

Claim (Index 2):
The method as defined in  claim 1 , further comprising\n placing a housing of the welding machine in the first orientation relative to the first end and the second ends of the structure; positioning the welding machine proximate the first end of the structure and adjacent a first end of the first overlapped region; inserting a welding head on the welding machine between an overlap layer and an underlap layer of the first overlapped region; heating the welding head; moving the housing in the first direction along the first overlapped region and toward the second end of the structure; applying heat from the welding head to the first overlapped region as the housing moves in the first direction; and applying pressure to the heated first overlapped region as the housing moves in the first direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44615
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13113316', '12577604', '12577558', '11324886', '11252867']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8720480776619001
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4882053315140049
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8336638030471105
- Mean Citation Score: 189.359962
- Max Citation Score: 216.81754
- Similarity Product: 170.27118580487013

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

Dataset: test