PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884138
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["156", "359000"]

Abstract:
A processing apparatus such as a heating and/or debulking apparatus that may be used to debulk a plurality of uncured composite layers to form an article such as an aircraft component may include a plurality of interconnected smart susceptor heater blankets. The plurality of smart susceptor heater blankets may be connected in series or in parallel, and may be controlled to uniformly heat the component during formation.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for processing an article through an application of heat to the article, comprising:\n positioning a first smart susceptor heater blanket comprising a first wire ribbon adjacent to a second smart susceptor heater blanket comprising a second wire ribbon; placing a plurality of uncured composite plies onto a layup mandrel of a first subsection of a heater blanket apparatus; lowering a second subsection of the heater blanket apparatus to position the first smart susceptor heater blanket and the second smart susceptor heater blanket in proximity to the plurality of uncured composite plies on the layup mandrel, and to position the first smart susceptor heater blanket and the second smart susceptor heater blanket to overlay the layup mandrel and the plurality of uncured composite plies; applying a current to a plurality of first wire assemblies of the first wire ribbon, wherein each first wire assembly is adjacent to at least one other first wire assembly, such that a current flow through each first wire assembly is in a direction that is opposite to a current flow through any adjacent first wire assembly; applying a current to a plurality of second wire assemblies of the second wire ribbon, wherein each second wire assembly is adjacent to at least one other second wire assembly, such that a current flow through each second wire assembly is in a direction that is opposite to a current flow through any adjacent second wire assembly; and the positioning further comprises placing one of the first wire assemblies adjacent to one of the second wire assemblies, such that the current flow through the first wire assembly adjacent to the second wire assembly is in an direction that is opposite to the current flow through the adjacent second wire assembly.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.52174
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15056783', '15056297', '15056509', '13248728', '15012843']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.905313921255801
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6024167978879356
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8750242089190146
- Mean Citation Score: 418.54701200000017
- Max Citation Score: 612.27515
- Similarity Product: 453.2128071666955

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

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