PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15965106
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["428", "137000"]

Abstract:
An additive manufacturing method and component having a fill layer material injected into voids as a Z-direction liquid nail or pin to provide a better connection between layers. Rather than depositing a complete layer, the extruder stops extruding at certain sections of the layers to leave a void. This repeats in the same location for the next predetermined number of layers, to create a series of vertically aligned voids in the print. Once the void hole is deep enough, the extruder will go back to this hole after completing the layer and fill it in. When this is done, the material flows down to the bottom of the hole and fill in the hole until it reaches the level of the most recent layer. This can be done a plurality of times on each layer.

Claim (Index 16):
The article of  claim 12 , further comprising a plurality of void areas having a depth measured in an axis direction that is perpendicular to the 2D plane, wherein the fill layer material deposited in the fill layer extends into each of the plurality of void area to form an interlocking feature between the initial layer and the fill layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72619
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14605752', '14752290', '15174645', '14944088', '15808081']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8934754733898478
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4816178935205871
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8522897154029218
- Mean Citation Score: 160.20882799999995
- Max Citation Score: 170.65143
- Similarity Product: 114.7798010843414

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

Dataset: test