PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15956471
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["072", "352000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for forming a sector of an annular component having an arrangement for securely retaining at least a portion of a blank mountable thereon. The retaining arrangement is adapted for leaving a portion of the retainable blank accessible. A punch is provided having an external surface contour shaped to correspond to the shape of all or a part of the profile of the sector of the annular component from a trailing edge to a leading edge and/or from a leading edge to an inlet edge. The apparatus has a cooperating forming arrangement for forming the profile of the sector of the annular component from the leading edge to the inlet edge. The retaining arrangement is adapted for forming a clamping boundary enclosing the accessible part of the blank to be formed by the punch.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of forming a sector of an annular component, the method comprising the steps of:\n clamping at least part of a blank along a clamping boundary in a retaining means so as to leave a portion of the blank exposed within the clamping boundary; moving a punch or retaining means radially so that the punch comes in to contact with the exposed portion of the blank and through the main body of the exposed blank thereby drawing the blank onto an external surface of the punch forming the sector from the leading edge to the trailing edge; activating cooperating forming means for engaging the blank; drawing the blank over the punch forming the sector of the annular component from the leading edge to the inlet edge; and aligning a cut out of a die and a cutout of a blank holder defining a gap for facilitating location of the punch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 72.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14764778', '13003113', '14903862', '12155215', '14058624']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.704821212994886
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5439189859685314
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6887309902922505
- Mean Citation Score: 239.608312
- Max Citation Score: 411.11926
- Similarity Product: 328.6501461848402

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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