PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15971541
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["264", "318000"]

Abstract:
An additive manufacturing system, and corresponding method, prints a sacrificial component using a 3D printing system that includes a spreading mechanism for spreading unbound powder to form layers of a powder bed and a printing mechanism for jetting binder fluid into the unbound powder to form the sacrificial component. The system forms the sacrificial component with a feature that provides a resistive force to a shear force imposed by the spreading mechanism during the spreading. The system prints a part with the 3D printing system in a coupled arrangement with the sacrificial component. The coupled arrangement in combination with the resistive force is sufficient to immobilize each printed layer of the part to resist the shear force imposed by the spreading mechanism during spreading of the unbound powder above each printed layer of the part. After printing, and before or after post-processing, the part and sacrificial component are separated.

Claim (Index 29):
A method of forming a part via additive manufacturing, the method comprising:\n forming a sacrificial component by depositing one or more layers of a loose powder and depositing a fluid onto at least a portion of each of the one or more layers of the loose powder to bind the loose powder where the fluid is deposited; forming a part by depositing a plurality of layers of the loose powder and depositing the fluid onto at least a portion of each of the plurality of layers of the loose powder; and forming a boundary of the loose powder between the sacrificial component and the part onto which the fluid is not deposited, wherein the boundary of the loose powder separates the sacrificial component from the part.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46875
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15892895', '15436344', '14241042', '15892733', '15892726']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7239441562491051
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4846771638982685
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7000174570140215
- Mean Citation Score: 163.373858
- Max Citation Score: 171.8421
- Similarity Product: 113.96155652992128

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

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