PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15984710
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["156", "499000"]

Abstract:
A method for forming a geomembrane liner testable for leaks by securing adjacent panels together with the conductivity of the lower surface of an overlying panel broken along a line adjacent the panel overlapping edge, and the overlapping edges sealed along the line. A heat welder has slots for the overlapping panel edges, with a heated wedge between the slots and having a projection to break the conductivity of the overlying panel bottom surface as it passes the wedge. The slots merge to press the liner edges together to heat weld them along the line of broken conductivity as the welder is moved along the panel edges.

Claim (Index 9):
The heat welder of  claim 8 , wherein:\n said heating unit is a wedge having first and second laterally spaced sections, with each section\n defining a portion of a bottom wall of the first slot and a portion of a top wall of the second slot, \n having said wall defining portions tapered together at their rear ends adjacent the merged first and second slots, and \n including one of said projections; and \n said merged slots are adapted to heat weld first and second liner panels together along substantially parallel lines corresponding to projection interruptions in the conductive bottom surface of the first one of said panels.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03636
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14481551', '13764305', '13396231', '15500723', '13404992']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9046382186566532
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5581510851804639
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8699895053090343
- Mean Citation Score: 257.977242
- Max Citation Score: 437.97723
- Similarity Product: 349.9946710994912

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

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