PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16231426
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["408", "224000"]

Abstract:
A device for opening a connection to a lined pipe is disclosed. The device has a body that includes a front end and a rear end and being rotatable about a rotation axis. The device also has a drill head that has multiple cutters for puncturing and enlarging a hole in a liner, and multiple side cutters have at least one cutting edge parallel to the rotation axis. A safety ring is disposed on the body between the drill head and the side cutters. The safety ring has a circular periphery extending beyond the drill head and the side cutters in a direction perpendicular to the rotation axis.

Claim (Index 1):
A drill head for opening a connection to a lined pipe, the drill head being rotatable about a rotation axis, comprising:\n multiple cutters for puncturing and enlarging a hole in a liner, four step-wise tapered cutters, each of the cutters having multiple cutting edges parallel to the rotation axis and multiple cutting edges perpendicular to the rotation axis; and spacers being disposed between adjacent cutters of the drill head for reducing cutting depth of the cutters.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 408.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15657125', '13455833', '11340166', '15199397', '15629083']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6349319437118277
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4817483829802185
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6196135876386668
- Mean Citation Score: 135.265274
- Max Citation Score: 224.4911
- Similarity Product: 176.90532647442814

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

Dataset: test