PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957792
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["425", "388000"]

Abstract:
A thermoforming apparatus is provided having a frame, a pair of opposed platens, a toggle shaft, a kinematic linkage, a form air manifold, and a pair of articulating bearing assemblies. The pair of opposed platens is carried by the frame each with a die, one die configured to engage an opposed face of another die across a heated sheet of thermoformable material in sealed relation there between. The toggle shaft is carried by the frame for rotation. The kinematic linkage is coupled between the toggle shaft and one of the dies. The form air manifold and a source of differential pressure is coupled with a die face on one of the dies. The pair of articulating bearing assemblies is carried by the frame and configured to support the at least one toggle shaft for translation towards and away from the another die and platen. A method is also provided.

Claim (Index 14):
The method of  claim 13 , further comprising a seal provided between the dies and, wherein applying the differential forming load comprises introducing pressurized air between a proximate surface of the another die plate, the seal, and a proximate surface of the heated sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41791
- Patent Class: 425.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13677219', '13676003', '12256346', '13223032', '10873551']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7605097334395984
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5335400428262748
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.737812764378266
- Mean Citation Score: 312.268228
- Max Citation Score: 382.11343
- Similarity Product: 264.3943775525433

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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