PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15901236
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["227", "120000"]

Abstract:
A receiver assembly can be coupled to a spindle to receive self-piercing rivets carried by a tape along a tape path below a punch. A reverse locking pawl can be designed to permit movement of the tape relative to the reverse locking pawl along the tape path in a forward direction and to engage a positioning aperture of the tape to stop movement of the tape in the reverse direction when a lead rivet is aligned with the punch. A method can include moving the tape forward along the tape path until a lead rivet of the tape is at a position along the tape path that is beyond an alignment position with the punch, and moving the tape in reverse to engage the corresponding positioning aperture.

Claim (Index 26):
A tape feed apparatus for a self-piercing rivet machine comprising:\n a supply reel, a receiver assembly, and an exhaust reel; a tape path extending in a forward direction from the supply reel, through the receiver, and to the exhaust reel, and the tape path extending in a reverse direction from the exhaust reel, through the receiver, and to the supply reel; a tape extending along the tape path, the tape having rivet apertures designed to carry self-piercing rivets and a rivet positioning aperture corresponding to each rivet aperture; the receiver assembly being coupled to an end of a self-piercing rivet spindle to receive self-piercing rivets carried by the tape along the tape path below a self-piercing rivet punch of the spindle; the receiver assembly including a reverse locking pawl designed to permit movement of the tape along the tape path in the forward direction and to bring a lead self-piercing rivet into a position of alignment with the self-piercing rivet punch by engaging the corresponding rivet positioning aperture of the tape to stop movement of the tape in the reverse direction as the lead self-piercing rivet in the rivet apertures comes into the position of alignment with the self-piercing rivet punch from the reverse direction; and at least one motor coupled to the supply reel and the exhaust reel and designed to rotate the supply reel and the exhaust reel to move the tape in the forward direction causing the lead self-piercing rivet to move into an overalignment position on the tape path in which the lead self-piercing rivet is beyond the position of alignment with the self-piercing rivet punch in the forward direction, and to move the tape in the reverse direction causing the lead self-piercing rivet to move from the overalignment position into the position of alignment with the self-piercing rivet punch from the reverse direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38182
- Patent Class: 227.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15688064', '14173298', '10613008', '15141547', '14478764']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7653626463619074
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.453560322554948
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7341824139812115
- Mean Citation Score: 195.578492
- Max Citation Score: 246.18935
- Similarity Product: 169.06175975199042

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

Dataset: test