PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16078095
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["427", "554000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method of at least one of sintering, crystallization and/or crosslinking of a coating material ( 2 ) on a substrate ( 1 ) with laser radiation. The coating material ( 2 ) is scanned with a laser beam ( 8 ) along overlapping processing traces, said scanning being performed by moving the laser beam ( 8 ) with a first speed in a first direction while the substrate is moved with a second speed slower than the first speed relative to the laser beam ( 8 ) or vice versa in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The intensity of the laser beam ( 8 ), the first speed and a ratio of the first speed and the second speed are selected such that the overlap of the processing traces on the coating material ( 2 ) results in local peak temperatures of the coating material ( 2 ) above a threshold temperature ( 17 ) which are repeatedly reached within a time period ( 18 ). The peak temperatures and time period ( 18 ) are selected to achieve said sintering, crystallizing and/or crosslinking of the coating material. With the proposed method the thermal load on the substrate is substantially reduced compared to processes using continuous heating.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of at least one of sintering, crystallizing and crosslinking of a coating material on a substrate with laser radiation, in which the coating material is scanned with a laser beam along overlapping processing traces,\n said scanning being performed by moving the laser beam over the substrate with a first speed in a first direction while the substrate is moved with a second speed slower than the first speed relative to the laser beam or vice versa in a second direction at an angle to the first direction, wherein an intensity of the laser beam, the first speed and a ratio of the first speed and the second speed are selected such that the overlap of the processing traces on the coating material results in local peak temperatures of the coating material above a threshold temperature which are repeatedly reached within a time period, said local peak temperatures and time period being selected to achieve said sintering, crystallizing and/or cross linking of the coating material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41935
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13453518', '11996134', '13148797', '15507680', '10952108']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8024986252473554
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4577524297668457
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7680240056993044
- Mean Citation Score: 129.610438
- Max Citation Score: 140.12753
- Similarity Product: 113.8133769765556

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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