PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986266
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["072", "165000"]

Abstract:
A device to level a metal plate fabricated from high-strength steel material includes a frame, a leveling station and a draw device. The leveling station includes a plurality of upper and lower rollers in parallel arrangement and defining a serpentine path. A plunge depth is defined based upon a difference between a top-dead-center point of the lower rollers and a bottom-dead-center point of contiguous upper rollers. A longitudinal spacing and the plunge depth are configured such that the upper rollers and the lower rollers are disposed to impart a bend radius on the metal plate as the metal plate is drawn, via the draw device, through the serpentine path such that the metal plate conforms to the outer peripheral surfaces of the upper rollers and the lower rollers. The bend radius is selected to achieve plastification of the metal sheet.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein moving the metal plate through the serpentine path in the longitudinal direction further includes moving the metal plate through the serpentine path in the longitudinal direction such that the one pair of upper rollers and the one of the one pair of lower rollers that is longitudinally disposed between the pair of upper rollers imparts a first bending stress on a first side of the metal plate and the one pair of lower rollers and the one of the one pair of upper rollers that is longitudinally disposed between the pair or lower rollers imparts a second bending stress on a second side of the metal plate, opposite the first side, such that the first and second bending stresses are equal to provide equal plastification on the first and second sides of the metal plate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17647
- Patent Class: 72.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15286310', '14099273', '13395171', '12465739', '13697508']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6934489241569775
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.582560356508832
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6823600673921629
- Mean Citation Score: 207.041832
- Max Citation Score: 466.8225
- Similarity Product: 450.2551196131109

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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