PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15921411
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["118", "719000"]

Abstract:
A coating apparatus can be used to concurrently coat both sides of a substrate while assuring a VOC free atmosphere outside the equipment. The coating apparatus can be used in-line, where flat materials and substrates that are typically carried along a conveyer may enter the coating apparatus, usually without requiring the substrate to be moved into any other configuration. The coating apparatus may be configured to permit the user to perform any number of treatment steps while providing isolation between the steps. The substrate can be partially suspended by the coating apparatus to permit both sides to be treated at the same time. A vacuum system, including redundant perimeter negative pressure venting ducts, can create a vacuum perimeter wall around the moving, treated material to ensure a VOC free atmosphere outside the coating apparatus.

Claim (Index 20):
A method of treating a substrate comprising:\n moving the substrate horizontally along a conveyor; receiving the substrate on an infeed belt of a lower assembly of a coating apparatus; suspending the substrate above a distribution plate of the lower assembly; delivering a treatment to the substrate via one or more lower coating distributors while the substrate passes through a treatment zone defined as a region adjacent the distribution plate, wherein the coating assembly includes an upper assembly having an upper distribution plate having a substrate facing side facing the substrate and spaced a distance away from the substrate when the substrate is positioned in the treatment zone; and one or more upper coating distributors adapted to deliver the treatment to the substrate while the substrate passes through the treatment zone; and applying a vacuum in the treatment zone via a plurality of lower assembly vacuum openings formed through disposed about an outer perimeter of the distribution plate and via a plurality of upper assembly vacuum openings formed through and disposed about an outer perimeter of the upper distribution plate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82278
- Patent Class: 118.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12936387', '15134678', '15726213', '13747358', '12634113']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7907277809168413
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4952448465981854
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7611794874849757
- Mean Citation Score: 160.509102
- Max Citation Score: 177.77823
- Similarity Product: 108.14435705494164

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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