PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864576
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["029", "091100"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for no-glue pocketed spring unit construction. Rows of pocketed springs modules, comprising more than two pocketed springs surrounding a central hole, can be automatically loaded onto an assembler; pocketed spring-surrounded openings can be automatically aligned with welding phalanges; and probe/anvil welding pairs can be inserted into modules in different rows of modules, closed around polymer pocket fabric, and activated to weld rows of modules together without glue; without a user manually loading rows of modules onto the assembler.

Claim (Index 9):
A method for assembling a cushioning unit, comprising the steps of:\n wherein individual pocketed spring modules comprise more than two pocketed springs which together surround an opening, a) inserting a first positioning rod between a pair of adjacent ones of said modules in a linearly connected row of said modules; b) applying tension to said row of modules, and inserting positioning rods between multiple other pairs of adjacent ones of said modules in said row of modules; c) moving said row of modules, without removing said positioning rods from between said adjacent pairs of modules, to align a main axis of said openings with a main axis of welding phalanges of a row of welding phalanges; d) inserting said row of welding phalanges into said aligned openings, and inserting another row of welding phalanges into said openings of another row of modules which is adjacent and parallel to said row of modules; and e) moving said rows of welding phalanges together and applying a welding pulse to ones of said welding phalanges to thereby weld said rows of modules together; and f) repeating steps a) through e) to form a completed cushioning unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.52542
- Patent Class: 29.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14562365', '14604661', '14158811', '14602257', '14602272']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9019577048382558
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5412586682545136
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8658878011798816
- Mean Citation Score: 397.245256
- Max Citation Score: 405.641
- Similarity Product: 329.605338737905

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