PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15751292
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["156", "180000"]

Abstract:
Provided are a device and a method capable of suitable cooling of a fiber bundle without hindering nozzle maintenance work or preparation work before the start of manufacturing. The provided device includes a nozzle which allows the fiber bundle impregnated with thermoplastic resin to pass therethrough while forming the fiber bundle into a tape shape, a cooling roller for cooling the fiber bundle, and a supporting device. The supporting device supports the cooling roller rotatably so as to allow the cooling roller to be moved between a cooling position at which an outer periphery surface of the cooling roller makes contact with the fiber bundle having passed through the nozzle and a retraction position away from the nozzle beyond the cooling portion.

Claim (Index 1):
A device for manufacturing, a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin tape, the device comprising:\n a resin impregnation device, which comprises a container which comprises a melted thermoplastic resin and passes a fiber bundle through the thermoplastic resin in the container to impregnate the fiber bundle with the thermoplastic resin; a nozzle which is provided in an outlet portion of the container of the resin impregnation device and allows the fiber bundle impregnated with the thermoplastic resin to pass through the nozzle, while forming the fiber bundle into a tape shape; a cooling roller which has an outer periphery surface capable of contact with the fiber bundle having passed through the nozzle, the cooling roller being capable of rotating around a roller center axis so as to allow the fiber bundle to move to a downstream side while the outer periphery surface makes contact with the fiber bundle and cooling the fiber bundle through the contact between the outer periphery surface and the fiber bundle; and a supporting device which supports the cooling roller rotatably so as to allow the cooling roller to move between a cooling position at which the outer periphery surface of the cooling roller is capable of contact with the fiber bundle having passed through the nozzle and a retraction position away from the nozzle beyond the cooling position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84058
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15503857', '13471096', '12294741', '12678762', '13976802']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9052892007492754
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4911662532698952
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8638769060013375
- Mean Citation Score: 236.01031
- Max Citation Score: 271.83633
- Similarity Product: 240.0480429645968

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