PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939198
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["219", "076100"]

Abstract:
Method for operating at least one apparatus ( 1 ) for additively manufacturing three-dimensional objects ( 2 ) by means of successive layerwise selective irradiation and consolidation of layers of a powdered build material ( 3 ) which can be consolidated by means of an energy beam ( 4 ), whereby waste thermal energy (WTE) is generated during operation of the at least one apparatus ( 1 ), characterized in that the waste thermal energy (WTE) is at least partly used for generating electrical or mechanical energy (EE, ME) by means of at least one energy converting device ( 15 ) and/or the waste thermal energy (WTE) is at least partly used for operating at least one thermal energy consuming device.

Claim (Index 10):
Method according to  claim 1 , characterized in that the waste thermal energy is taken from an energy beam used for selectively irradiating build material layers during operation of the apparatus, at least partly reflected energy irradiation generated during operation of the apparatus, wall portions of the apparatus heated during operation of the apparatus, e.g. heated walls of container-like powder modules or heated walls of a process chamber, heated streaming channel walls defining an inner streaming volume through which a process gas may stream during operation of the apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04615
- Patent Class: 219.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14561184', '14913739', '12759686', '15217568', '10625745']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8209617803914419
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4579744403180059
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7846630463840983
- Mean Citation Score: 121.8752992
- Max Citation Score: 127.21712
- Similarity Product: 97.07727225689888

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

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