PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15967702
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["072", "009200"]

Abstract:
A process includes flexible rolling of a strip made of a metallic material, wherein a thickness profile with different sheet thicknesses along the length of the strip is produced such that successive regions of the flexibly rolled strip each correspond to a target thickness profile of a sheet metal blank to be cut out of same; determining a measured thickness profile of a plurality of successive regions of the strip; calculating a target position in the strip for a sheet metal blank to be cut out of the strip depending on the generated measured thickness profile of at least two successive regions of the strip; cutting the flexibly rolled strip by at least one cutting device along the target position for producing the sheet meal blank. A plant is further provided for producing a sheet metal blank.

Claim (Index 16):
An apparatus for producing a sheet metal blank, comprising:\n a rolling unit for flexibly rolling a strip made of a metal-based material such that the strip obtains a variable thickness along a length of the strip; and a cutting unit for cutting individual sheet metal blanks out of the strip, wherein the strip comprises a plurality of successive regions, from each of which a sheet metal blank is to be cut with a target length; wherein the cutting unit comprises a measuring device for measuring the thickness of the strip along the length of the strip, at least one cutting device for cutting the flexibly rolled strip, and an electronic control unit (ECU) for controlling the cutting device on the basis of values measured by the measuring device; wherein a distance between the measuring device and the cutting device is greater than double the target length of the sheet metal blank to be cut out, so that it is possible to determine a target position for a sheet metal blank to be worked out of the strip depending on a measured profile of at least two successive regions of the strip.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23438
- Patent Class: 72.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15376946', '14764724', '15557679', '14719532', '14897512']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.703928066486501
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5173025592708895
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6852655157649398
- Mean Citation Score: 219.81088600000004
- Max Citation Score: 336.4103
- Similarity Product: 277.8297231667101

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

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