PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15773313
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["073", "028030"]

Abstract:
Method of design and manufacturing concrete structures subjected to relevant cyclic loads along their service lives, as wind towers, and a fatigue testing machine. The method consists on the design of concrete structures conditioned by cyclic loads considering a fatigue strength value specified by the project as one of the main design parameters, which will be verified during the manufacturing phase as one of the control parameters of the quality assurance plan by performing fatigue strength test on concrete samples representative of the concrete structural elements produced on said manufacturing phase. The method allows to decouple the concrete fatigue strength from the compressive strength of the material, which is why includes a verification of the fatigue strength as a part of a quality assurance plan of production according to a new developed procedure.

Claim (Index 1):
Method of design and manufacturing concrete structural elements comprising:\n a. a design phase, including:\n a.1) specification of mechanical characteristics of a concrete, including at least a fatigue strength value as one of the design parameters of a project; and \n a.2) definition of dimensions of the concrete structural elements to be manufactured that, in combination with the design parameters specified on step a.1) including said fatigue strength value, allows to withstand expected stresses along the service life of said concrete elements; \n b. a manufacturing and control phase, including:\n b.1) manufacturing said concrete structural elements using a concrete and following the element dimensions defined on step a.2); and \n b.2) performing quality controls which includes the extraction of concrete samples during a concrete production phase and the execution of fatigue strength tests over said concrete samples in order to verify that the test results are in accordance with a fatigue strength value that is specified on step a.1) of the project.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91781
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10700236', '14652541', '13433465', '11833628', '13319083']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6513888704751325
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4857455285840349
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6348245362860228
- Mean Citation Score: 189.127532
- Max Citation Score: 210.15976
- Similarity Product: 163.1674551517868

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

Dataset: test