PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15964706
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["409", "137000"]

Abstract:
A swarf handling apparatus installed in a machining tool that performs machining operation accompanied with production of stringy swarf includes a swarf catching device. The swarf catching device includes a holder unit that holds the stringy swarf when the stringy swarf makes contact with the holder unit. The swarf catching device causes the holder unit to be floated in a region around a machining point in such a manner that the position of the holder unit is varied relative to the machining point, for catching the stringy swarf in the holder unit.

Claim (Index 5):
The swarf handling apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein:\n the holder unit comprises at least one of a protruding region, a bent region, an uneven region, and a curved region to hold the stringy swarf engaged with the at least one of the regions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18182
- Patent Class: 409.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10542357', '15300080', '15496692', '13380277', '15651271']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6867801826821962
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4758399622292089
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6656861606368975
- Mean Citation Score: 124.020174
- Max Citation Score: 131.62094
- Similarity Product: 74.49349604105949

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