PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15937817
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["264", "113000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides three-dimensional (3D) printing systems, apparatuses, software, and methods for the production of at least one requested 3D object. The 3D printer includes a material conveyance system, filtering system, and unpacking station. The material conveyance system may transport pre-transformed material against gravity. The 3D printing described herein comprises facilitating non-interrupted material dispensing through a component of the 3D printer, such as a layer dispenser.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for printing a three-dimensional object, comprising:\n a processing chamber configured to accommodate printing of the three-dimensional object; a vertically translatable platform configured to support the three-dimensional object during its printing, which platform is disposed in the processing chamber; a filtering enclosure comprising:\n (i) at least one wall enclosing a volume that is configured to accommodate an internal atmosphere, wherein the internal atmosphere is different from an external atmosphere that comprises a reactive agent, \n (ii) an inlet port disposed in the at least one wall, which inlet port is configured to facilitate ingress of a material to the volume, which material comprises a remainder of a pre-transformed material used for printing the three-dimensional object, \n (iii) a cartridge opening disposed in the at least one wall, and \n (iv) a gas opening operatively coupled to the volume and configured to facilitate flow of gas therethrough; and \n a supportive structure configured to accommodate a cartridge comprising a filter and a frame configured to support the filter, which cartridge is configured to: allow entry through the cartridge opening, allow exit through the cartridge opening, and fit in the volume; and one or more controllers operatively coupled to the inlet port, wherein the one or more controllers are individually or collectively configured to direct: (A) upon disposal of the cartridge in the volume and establishment of the internal atmosphere in the volume, facilitate flow of the remainder of the pre-transformed material from a processing chamber through the inlet port into the volume; and (B) upon exit of the cartridge through the opening (i) facilitate reducing a rate at which the reactive agent from the external atmosphere exits from the volume through the inlet port to the processing chamber, which reducing is at least during the printing to print the three-dimensional printing in a printing atmosphere, and (ii) facilitate flow of an internal atmosphere gas into the volume to purge the reactive agent of the external atmosphere from the volume.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54902
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15937798', '15634228', '15634267', '15374442', '15803686']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7422681733150054
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5297900885394068
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7210203648374456
- Mean Citation Score: 273.421082
- Max Citation Score: 351.63788
- Similarity Product: 295.1405004677725

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

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