PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957338
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["425", "375000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus, and corresponding method, feeds build material, in the form of rods, to a drive system in a three-dimensional (3D) printing system. The apparatus dispenses a rod to a media tray and into a first groove defined by a flipper arm. The flipper arm is in a substantially horizontal position supported by a bottom ridge of the media tray. The flipper arm is rotated away from the bottom ridge and toward a stopper coupled to the flipper arm and the media tray. The stopper defines a second groove. The apparatus deposits the rod into the drive system via a feed shaft formed by the first and second grooves of the flipper arm and stopper, respectively. The apparatus enables high-speed 3D printing using the rods by overcoming challenges in loading the rods due to brittleness of the rods.

Claim (Index 21):
The method of  claim 20 , further comprising directing rods toward the roller via a ramp, the ramp interior to the housing and angled to direct rods toward the roller.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 52.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30303
- Patent Class: 425.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12845859', '14250037', '11753020', '10159729', '15325760']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7053816472812351
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5040012696649943
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.685243609519611
- Mean Citation Score: 160.679946
- Max Citation Score: 162.1379
- Similarity Product: 85.53455123897791

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