PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16239271
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["118", "612000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for forming a composite structure comprising rotating a base layer of an apparatus for forming the composite structure about an axis of rotation, transferring carbon short fibers from a first vibratory feed ramp onto the base layer in order to form a plurality of fibrous layers in the composite structure, and vibrating the first vibratory feed ramp during the transferring the carbon short fibers. The base layer may comprise an annular shape.

Claim (Index 2):
An apparatus for forming a composite structure, comprising:\n a base layer that is annular in shape and configured to rotate about an axis of rotation; a vibratory feed ramp configured to transfer carbon short fibers to the base layer; a vibration generator coupled to the vibratory feed ramp, wherein the vibration generator is configured to generate vibrations to vibrate the vibratory feed ramp; and a first loader configured to transfer the carbon short fibers comprised therein onto the vibratory feed ramp, where the first loader comprises a loader hole comprising a first dimension and a second dimension, wherein the first dimension is larger than the second dimension, and the first dimension transfers the carbon short fibers to an outer edge of the vibratory feed ramp.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72917
- Patent Class: 118.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15184329', '15245007', '10315464', '14286077', '15632010']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7869884243691967
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5223393611708356
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7605235180493607
- Mean Citation Score: 175.82089399999995
- Max Citation Score: 348.53055
- Similarity Product: 317.6916959154188

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test