PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15924116
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["156", "307100"]

Abstract:
Composite tooling systems and methods of manufacturing composite stringers of aircraft are provided herein. A composite tooling system includes a layup tool and an articulating stringer mandrel. The layup tool has a contoured surface with portions having different surface complexities. The articulating stringer mandrel includes two rigid mandrel elements and a cable. The first rigid mandrel element defines a first aperture, a first stringer surface, and a first bottom surface. The second rigid mandrel element is adjacent to the first rigid mandrel element and defines a second aperture, a second stringer surface, and a second bottom surface. A first length of the first rigid mandrel element cooperates with the surface complexity and a second length of the second rigid mandrel element cooperates with the surface complexity at the second rigid mandrel element so that a gap between the rigid mandrel elements does not exceed a predetermined gap threshold.

Claim (Index 3):
The composite tooling system of  claim 1 , further comprising a pair of end mandrels disposed at each longitudinal end of the articulating stringer mandrel, and wherein the pair of end mandrels cooperates with the cable to apply tension to the articulating stringer mandrel in the tensed state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60656
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14967802', '14324239', '13773241', '13396325', '14444803']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8985798796028477
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5705988629827403
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.865781777940837
- Mean Citation Score: 293.25404400000014
- Max Citation Score: 486.9614
- Similarity Product: 379.8511535111308

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

Dataset: test