PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15901236
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["227", "120000"]

Abstract:
A receiver assembly can be coupled to a spindle to receive self-piercing rivets carried by a tape along a tape path below a punch. A reverse locking pawl can be designed to permit movement of the tape relative to the reverse locking pawl along the tape path in a forward direction and to engage a positioning aperture of the tape to stop movement of the tape in the reverse direction when a lead rivet is aligned with the punch. A method can include moving the tape forward along the tape path until a lead rivet of the tape is at a position along the tape path that is beyond an alignment position with the punch, and moving the tape in reverse to engage the corresponding positioning aperture.

Claim (Index 1):
A tape feed apparatus for a self-piercing rivet machine comprising:\n a supply reel, a receiver assembly, and an exhaust reel; a tape path extending in a forward direction from the supply reel, through the receiver, and to the exhaust reel, and the tape path extending in a reverse direction from the exhaust reel, through the receiver, and to the supply reel; a tape extending along the tape path, the tape having rivet apertures designed to carry self-piercing rivets and a rivet positioning aperture corresponding to each rivet aperture; the receiver assembly being coupled to an end of a self-piercing rivet spindle to receive self-piercing rivets carried by the tape along the tape path below a self-piercing rivet punch of the spindle; the receiver assembly including a reverse locking pawl designed to permit movement of the tape along the tape path in the forward direction and to bring a lead self-piercing rivet into a position of alignment with the self-piercing rivet punch by engaging the corresponding rivet positioning aperture of the tape to stop movement of the tape in the reverse direction as the lead self-piercing rivet in the rivet apertures comes into the position of alignment with the self-piercing rivet punch from the reverse direction; and a two-directional tape indexing system designed to move the tape in the forward direction causing the lead self-piercing rivet to move into an overalignment position on the tape path in which the lead self-piercing rivet is beyond the position of alignment with the self-piercing rivet punch in the forward direction, and to move the tape in the reverse direction causing the lead self-piercing rivet to move from the overalignment position into the position of alignment with the self-piercing rivet punch from the reverse direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38182
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15688064', '14173298', '10613008', '15141547', '14478764']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7653626463619074
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.453560322554948
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7341824139812115
- Mean Citation Score: 195.578492
- Max Citation Score: 246.18935
- Similarity Product: 169.06175975199042

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

Dataset: test