PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864119
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["156", "580200"]

Abstract:
The sonotrode and anvil of Applicant's issued U.S. Pat. No. 8,376,016, for advanced ultrasonic welding of work pieces, are readily incorporated into new form-fill-seal machines, but existing machines with heat-seal stations pose difficult problems for swapping of the sealing packages. Kits enabling heat station replacement with the Applicant's patented sonotrode and anvil include: a housing; a rail fixed thereto; anvil and sonotrode support members; and a parallel gripper. Each of the anvil and sonotrode support members is slidably attached to the rail(s) and are also connected to a respective piston of the gripper, permitting actuation of each through cycling of the gripper pistons. The improved sonotrode/anvil combination each include corresponding pluralities of energy directors arranged into a three-dimensional grid pattern that produces narrower weld regions, which exhibit greater durability, permitting use of less packaging material.

Claim (Index 9):
The ultrasonic welding device according to  claim 8  wherein said sonotrode support member configured to slide relative to said linear rail is a sliding arrangement from the group of sliding arrangements consisting of:\n said sonotrode support member configured to slide upon said linear rail; and \n said sonotrode support member fixedly secured to one or more bearing carriages, with said one or more bearing carriages configured to slide upon said linear rail.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57576
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14056030', '15359639', '13751363', '14056050', '15492181']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9500521485113664
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6680043907908934
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.921847372739319
- Mean Citation Score: 637.498338
- Max Citation Score: 702.92725
- Similarity Product: 633.2786020294277

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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