PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986266
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["072", "165000"]

Abstract:
A device to level a metal plate fabricated from high-strength steel material includes a frame, a leveling station and a draw device. The leveling station includes a plurality of upper and lower rollers in parallel arrangement and defining a serpentine path. A plunge depth is defined based upon a difference between a top-dead-center point of the lower rollers and a bottom-dead-center point of contiguous upper rollers. A longitudinal spacing and the plunge depth are configured such that the upper rollers and the lower rollers are disposed to impart a bend radius on the metal plate as the metal plate is drawn, via the draw device, through the serpentine path such that the metal plate conforms to the outer peripheral surfaces of the upper rollers and the lower rollers. The bend radius is selected to achieve plastification of the metal sheet.

Claim (Index 5):
A device configured to level a metal plate fabricated from high-strength metal material, the device comprising:\n a frame; a leveling station including one pair of upper rollers and a corresponding one pair of lower rollers rotatably disposed on the frame in a parallel arrangement in a lateral direction and defining a serpentine path that is disposed in a longitudinal direction that is associated with a direction of travel for the metal plate; and wherein each one of the one pair of upper rollers includes a cylindrical outer peripheral surface that extends in the lateral direction and radially surrounds an upper axis of rotation; wherein each one of the one pair of lower rollers includes a cylindrical outer peripheral surface that extends in the lateral direction and radially surrounds a lower axis of rotation; wherein the radii of each one of the one pair of upper rollers and the radii of each one of the one pair of lower rollers are equivalent; wherein the upper axes of rotation are offset in the longitudinal direction from the lower axes of rotation such that a longitudinal spacing is defined between the axes of rotation of contiguous ones of the one pair of upper rollers and the one pair of lower rollers; wherein a plunge depth is defined as a difference in an elevation direction between a first elevation associated with a top-dead-center point of each one of the one pair of lower rollers and a second elevation that is associated with a bottom-dead-center point of each one of the one pair of upper rollers; wherein the magnitude of the plunge depth associated with each one of the one pair of upper rollers and one of the one pair of lower rollers that is longitudinally disposed between the one pair of upper rollers is equal to the magnitude of the plunge depth associated with each one of the one pair of lower rollers and one of the one pair of upper rollers that is longitudinally disposed between the one pair of lower rollers; wherein the serpentine path is defined between the outer peripheral surfaces of contiguous ones of the one pair of upper rollers and the one pair of lower rollers; wherein the longitudinal spacing of each one of the one pair of upper rollers and each one of the one pair of lower rollers is equal to achieve the equal plastification on the first and second sides of the metal plate; wherein the longitudinal spacing and the plunge depth are configured such that the one pair of upper rollers and the one of the one pair of lower rollers that is longitudinally disposed between the one pair of upper rollers imparts a first bend radius on the metal plate in a first orientation and the one pair of lower rollers and the one of the pair of upper rollers that is longitudinally disposed between the one pair of lower rollers subsequently imparts a second bend radius on the metal plate in a second orientation that is opposed to the first orientation as the metal plate moves through the serpentine path as the metal plate bends about a portion of the outer peripheral surfaces of each one of the one pair of upper rollers and each one of the one pair of lower rollers to subject the metal plate to plastic deformation corresponding to the portion of the respective outer peripheral surfaces of each one of the one pair of upper rollers and each one of the one pair of lower rollers to provide equal plastification on both sides of the metal plate; wherein the magnitude of the first bend radius and the magnitude of the second bend radius is selected such that a magnitude of plastification of the metal plate that is greater than 70% is achieved once the metal plate moves along the serpentine path past the two upper rollers and the two lower rollers; and wherein the magnitude of the first bend radius is equivalent to the magnitude of the second bend radius; and wherein there is a quantity of not more than the one pair of upper rollers and a quantity of not more than the one pair of lower rollers to achieve equal plastification on both sides of the metal plate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17647
- Patent Class: 72.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15286310', '14099273', '13395171', '12465739', '13697508']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6684840092322971
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5782333500634254
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6594589433154099
- Mean Citation Score: 207.041832
- Max Citation Score: 466.8225
- Similarity Product: 436.68138048067686

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

Dataset: test