PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15748525
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["425", "572000"]

Abstract:
An injection-molding machine includes a stack mold having a snorkel supplying melt to a central part of the stack mold. A biased movable part of the snorkel and a nozzle of an injection unit can be pressed against one another during the injecting process, wherein a position of the injection unit can be fixed in the longitudinal machine direction, when the stack mold is in a position for performing a compression molding stroke. A bias and a stroke executable by the movable part of the snorkel can be adjusted, so that the nozzle and the snorkel remain pressed against each other at least while the compression molding stroke is executed during the injection process. The position of the injection unit is held during an injection process while the compression molding stroke is executed

Claim (Index 16):
A method of operating an injection molding machine having an injection unit and a stack mold which receives melt from the injection unit for producing a molded part, comprising:\n holding the injection unit in a longitudinal machine direction at a starting position, in which a nozzle of the injection unit is pressed against a biased movable part of a snorkel as the stack mold moves from an open position toward a closed position until establishing a contact between the snorkel and the nozzle and thereby approaches a position for executing a compression molding stroke; continuing to move the stack mold until the position for executing the compression molding stroke is reached; injecting melt from the injection unit through the snorkel into mold cavities of the stack mold; during or after injecting the melt into the mold cavities, continuing to move stack mold to thereby execute the compression molding stroke and distribute the melt into the mold cavities of the stack mold as the mold cavities decrease in size; applying a holding pressure to maintain the nozzle and the snorkel pressed against each other during injecting the melt into the mold cavities and while the holding pressure is applied, and opening the stack mold and disengaging the snorkel from the nozzle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20635
- Patent Class: 425.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10465861', '10879621', '11108523', '11936123', '11881042']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7295728276726797
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4763862777005475
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7042541726754665
- Mean Citation Score: 189.754282
- Max Citation Score: 196.71013
- Similarity Product: 149.64385380013402

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

Dataset: test