PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868481
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["419", "PCA001"]

Abstract:
A variety of additive manufacturing techniques can be adapted to fabricate a substantially net shape object from a computerized model using materials that can be debound and sintered into a fully dense metallic part or the like. However, during sintering, the net shape will shrink as binder escapes and the base material fuses into a dense final part. If the foundation beneath the object does not shrink in a corresponding fashion, the resulting stresses throughout the object can lead to fracturing, warping or other physical damage to the object resulting in a failed fabrication. To address this issue, a variety of techniques are disclosed for substrates and build plates that contract in a manner complementary to the object during debinding and sintering.

Claim (Index 25):
A method comprising:\n receiving an article including a support structure, an object fabricated from a build material on the support structure, wherein the build material includes a powdered material for forming a final part and a binder system including one or more binders, and an interface layer between the object and the support structure that resists bonding of the support structure to the object during sintering, wherein the one or more binders resist deformation of the object during a fabrication, a debinding, and a sintering of the object into the final part, and wherein the support structure is configured to match a shrinkage of the object during at least one of the debinding and the sintering; and processing the article to form the object into the final part, wherein processing includes at least one of debinding the article and sintering the article.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.6375
- Patent Class: 419.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15469444', '15469170', '15469432', '15469371', '15722445']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7540118444325893
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5415986502120446
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7327705250105347
- Mean Citation Score: 347.506406
- Max Citation Score: 389.9284
- Similarity Product: 325.12990685868266

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