PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16185192
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["118", "308000"]

Abstract:
A method and system for powder coating non electrically conductive elements, preferably brake pads. A pre-treatment station is upstream of an electrostatic powder coating deposition station and a baking station for melting and polymerizing the powder coating in order to form a coating layer on a surface to be coated. The pre-treatment station causes the elements to be coated to conduct electrically by uniformly wetting said elements by means of creating poorly mineralized water covalent bonds on at least one surface to be coated, in an amount aimed at producing a measurable weight increase in the non electrically conductive elements, which then causes them to conduct electrically. The water adsorbed and/or deposited is subsequently eliminated within the baking station.

Claim (Index 4):
The plant according to  claim 3 , in which:\n i)\u2014the plurality of nozzles are arranged aligned side by side along an aligning direction (L) that is transverse to a forward direction (D) along which the plurality of electrically non-conductive elements move on the rack; ii)\u2014the plurality of nozzles and the at least one feeding pump are adapted to generate the pressurized water jets at a pressure of at least 60 bar; iii)\u2014the plurality of nozzles are arranged beneath the rack, such that the pressurized water jets project upwardly, the plurality of nozzles being spaced at a predetermined vertical gap from the rack, so that an empty space (S) is delimited between the rack and the plurality of nozzles; and iv)\u2014the suction hood comprises a tubular element extending towards the plurality of nozzles and a rectilinear through suction slot that is arranged parallel to the aligning direction (L) of the plurality of nozzles.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 118.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14442430', '10636367', '13173237', '12334831', '11076091']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7997692707688516
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5156784548462753
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.771360189176594
- Mean Citation Score: 146.847307
- Max Citation Score: 308.96005
- Similarity Product: 232.449584126854

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

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