PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16273335
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["156", "104000"]

Abstract:
Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to evacuation and sealing techniques for VIG units, and/or multi-chamber vacuum ovens for accomplishing the same. In certain example embodiments, a VIG assembly is inserted into a multi-chamber apparatus to successively reduce the chamber pressure and thus the pressure between substrates comprising the VIG assembly until a final evacuation pressure is reached. Once the final evacuation pressure is reached, a pump-out port or tube of the VIG assembly is sealed forming a VIG unit while the VIG assembly is still in the vacuum chamber. After sealing, chamber pressures are gradually increased to atmospheric while the gap between the substrates of the VIG unit remains at a pressure less than atmospheric which is close to the final evacuation pressure.

Claim (Index 28):
The method of  claim 27 , wherein the portions to be sealed are edge portions and extend proximate the entire periphery of the glass substrates, so that the seal extends proximate the entire periphery of the glass substrates.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98507
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15613472', '13901605', '12000652', '13942734', '12000791']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9284150697175496
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5509926159085841
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8906728243366532
- Mean Citation Score: 388.27933
- Max Citation Score: 419.85278
- Similarity Product: 340.86536713817355

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

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