PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16183231
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["052", "651010"]

Abstract:
Spiral forming devices, systems, and methods can be used to join edges of a of a stock material, in a curved configuration, along one or more joints to form tubular structures, such as conical and/or cylindrical structures (e.g., frusto-conical structures). A planar form of the stock material can be formed from a plurality planar sheets coupled to one another in an abutting relationship. By controlling relative orientation and shapes of the plurality of planar sheets forming the stock material and/or by controlling a position of a roll bender used to curve the planar form of the stock material into the curved configuration, the curved configuration of the stock material can be controlled through transitions between sheets to facilitate rolling the sheets to a desired diameter with a reduced likelihood of dimples or other errors and to facilitate fit up between adjacent sheets in the curved configuration.

Claim (Index 6):
A method comprising:\n moving a first planar sheet and a second planar sheet in a feed direction through roll banks of a roll bender, the first planar sheet and the second planar sheet coupled to one another in an abutting relationship, a length of the abutting relationship between the first planar sheet and the second planar sheet along the feed direction defining a transition length; within the transition length, curving the first planar sheet and the second planar sheet with the roll banks of the roll bender set at a first position, the first planar sheet and the second planar sheet having different curvature responses to the roll banks of the roll bender set at the first position; and within the transition length, curving the first planar sheet and the second planar sheet with the roll banks of the roll bender set at a second position different from the first position, the first planar sheet and the second planar sheet having different curvature responses to the roll banks of the roll bender set at the second position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02564
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15692461', '15870612', '15191841', '14978175', '13717786']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7603024000220212
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.529469385251524
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7372190985449715
- Mean Citation Score: 200.90163
- Max Citation Score: 344.19025
- Similarity Product: 264.3306056841612

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