PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15921514
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["264", "324000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for draping knitted fiber fabrics for curved profiled structural parts of fiber composite material includes a mold having a mold surface that corresponds to a portion of the desired profile geometry and curvature of the profiled structural part, a clamping device for tensioning a layer of a knitted fiber fabric along a tensioning line in a prestressed state, and a movement device for producing a relative movement between the mold and the clamped-in fabric layer such that the mold surface moves close to the fabric layer in a direction perpendicular to the tensioning line and, in the further course of the relative movement, pushes through the tensioning line such that the fabric layer completely covers the mold surface. The clamping device is equipped to load the fabric layer during the entire draping operation with a tensile force acting along the tensioning line.

Claim (Index 26):
A method of forming a curved profiled structural part from a fiber composite material, the method comprising:\n obtaining a plurality of layers of knitted fiber fabric, at least one of the plurality of layers of knitted fiber fabric including an applied or impregnating binding material, spacing apart each of the plurality of layers of knitted fiber fabric at a distance from one another,\n applying tensile stress to opposite ends of the spaced apart plurality of layers of knitted fiber fabric each along a different one of a corresponding plurality of tensioning lines extending through the opposite ends thereof to tension each of the spaced apart plurality of layers of knitted fiber fabric with a tensioning force acting along a corresponding one of the plurality of tensioning lines, \n while maintaining the tensioning force acting along each of the plurality of tensioning lines, executing a relative movement between the spaced apart and tensioned plurality of layers of knitted fiber fabric and a mold surface defined by at least one mold until the mold surface pushes sequentially through each of the plurality of tensioning lines to such an extent that the sequentially arranged plurality of layers of knitted fiber fabric completely covers the mold surface, wherein the mold surface defines at least a portion of a profile geometry and curvature of the curved profiled structural part, and \n with plurality of layers of knitted fiber fabric completely covering the mold surface, curing the binding material while continuing to maintain the tensioning force acting along the plurality of tensioning lines to cause the plurality of layers of knitted fiber fabric and the binding material to cooperatively yield the fiber composite material fixed in the shape of the mold surface to form the curved profiled structural part.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17391
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14916460', '13074308', '11629938', '12575747', '10333221']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7630445360603508
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4804403527282944
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7347841177271451
- Mean Citation Score: 157.88299999999995
- Max Citation Score: 165.64328
- Similarity Product: 112.3349688947296

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

Dataset: test