PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16406271
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["427", "177000"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a system for manufacturing a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) prepreg includes a mechanism for continuously moving a fabric or mat and a resin application component that applies a methyl methacrylate (MMA) resin to the fabric or mat. The system also includes a press mechanism that presses the fabric or mat during the continuous movement subsequent to the application of the MMA resin to ensure that the MMA resin fully saturates the fabric or mat. The system further includes a curing oven through which the fabric or mat is continuously moved. The curing oven is maintained at a temperature of between 40° C. and 100° C. to polymerize the MMA resin and thereby form PMMA so that upon exiting the curing oven, the fabric or mat is fully impregnated with PMMA.

Claim (Index 11):
A method of forming a fully impregnated thermoplastic polyurethane prepreg product comprising:\n applying a pre-polymer resin to a fabric or mat as the fabric or mat is moved under a resin application die that is positioned above the fabric or mat, the pre-polymer resin being combined with a curative that facilitates in polymerizing the pre-polymer resin to form thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU); passing the pre-polymer resin coated fabric or mat through a double belt compression press to fully saturate the fabric or mat with the pre-polymer resin; and passing the pre-polymer resin saturated fabric or mat through a curing oven to polymerize the pre-polymer resin throughout the fabric or mat and thereby form the fully impregnated TPU prepreg; wherein the fabric or mat is constantly moved during the above process via the double belt compression press and wherein the above process is completed in a time of less than 10 minutes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16667
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14845007', '15728403', '14794634', '14880307', '15408992']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8144019489424209
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5799981153282626
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7909615655810052
- Mean Citation Score: 395.754134
- Max Citation Score: 472.8867
- Similarity Product: 396.53326610709433

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

Dataset: test