PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957976
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["029", "243530"]

Abstract:
A joining device includes a nose, a punch, and a die anvil. The punch is coaxially slidable within the nose. A fastener is arranged within the nose and is coaxially slidable within the nose and movable by the punch. An ultrasonic vibration is focused through the die anvil to a zone on a material assembly arranged thereon for heating the zone. The punch is configured to drive the fastener outwardly from the nose and into the material assembly at the zone.

Claim (Index 9):
The joining device of  claim 8 , wherein the die has a die face that receives the second workpiece when the shank of the fastener is in the zone, and wherein the shank of the fastener is deformed to create a mechanical joint with the first and second workpieces.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14634
- Patent Class: 29.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15371695', '13056299', '15112413', '15674904', '10312664']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8812803463283202
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5070360811658257
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8438559198120708
- Mean Citation Score: 231.208514
- Max Citation Score: 292.21915
- Similarity Product: 230.48177372348303

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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