PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15904962
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["428", "113000"]

Abstract:
A kinetic energy absorptive composite article includes a ply containing multiple substantially parallel fibers having inherent failure strains and having inherent moduli. A matrix material at least partially encapsulates the ply. The ply includes multiple lower strength length portions or multiple lower modulus length portions. The multiple lower strength length portions are distributed along individual fibers of the multiple fibers and have failure strains less than the inherent failure strains. The multiple lower modulus length portions are distributed along individual fibers of the multiple fibers and have moduli less than the inherent moduli. A designated pattern of the lower strength length portions or of the lower modulus length portions is distributed to selected locations identified in the ply. An absorptive method includes distributing a load across the designated pattern when the ply receives a force from kinetic energy.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1  wherein:\n the ply is a first ply, the multiple fibers are multiple first fibers, the designated pattern is a first designated pattern, and the composite article further includes:\n a second ply containing multiple substantially parallel second fibers having inherent failure strains and oriented not to be substantially parallel to the multiple first fibers of the first ply; \n the matrix material further at least partially encapsulating the second ply; \n multiple lower strength length portions distributed along individual second fibers of the multiple second fibers and having failure strains less than the inherent failure strains of the multiple second fibers, or multiple lower modulus length portions distributed along individual second fibers of the multiple second fibers and having moduli less than the inherent moduli; and \n a second designated pattern of the lower strength length portions, or of the lower modulus length portions, distributed to selected locations identified in the second ply; and \n \n the method further comprises distributing a load across the second designated pattern when the second ply receives the force from kinetic energy above the separation threshold by:\n plastically deforming the second ply and the matrix material; \n separating the multiple second fibers at the lower strength length portions or plastically stretching the multiple fibers at the lower modulus length portions; and \n creating gaps in the second ply where the multiple second fibers are separated or creating shear boundaries in the ply where the multiple fibers are plastically stretched.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41667
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15904955', '12145255', '14611030', '14727236', '09288589']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9018650930568272
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5143870069324462
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8631172844443892
- Mean Citation Score: 213.72934
- Max Citation Score: 298.48422
- Similarity Product: 209.27370676152347

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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