PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16128940
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["219", "154000"]

Abstract:
A heating method, a heating apparatus, and a hot press holding method for a plate workpiece are provided. The plate workpiece has a first region and a second region. A cross sectional area of the first region in a widthwise direction of the plate workpiece is substantially uniform along a longitudinal direction of the plate workpiece or is monotonically increased or decreased along the longitudinal direction. The second region is adjoining a portion of the first region in a monolithic manner. The method includes heating the second region, and heating at least the first region by direct resistance heating along the longitudinal direction. The second region is heated before heating the first region such that the first region and the second region are heated to be in a given temperature range.

Claim (Index 3):
The apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the second region is adjoining the portion of the first region in the longitudinal direction, and wherein the first heating section is configured to heat the second region together with the first region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45614
- Patent Class: 219.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14410727', '15548848', '15315925', '14419509', '15320502']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8254017149765099
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4753790717619103
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7903994506550499
- Mean Citation Score: 181.01591
- Max Citation Score: 201.57378
- Similarity Product: 164.31744891724702

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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