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 1):
A method of forming a fully impregnated thermoplastic polyurethane prepreg comprising:\n moving a fabric or mat so that the fabric or mat is positioned atop a lower belt of a double belt compression press that is configured to move the fabric or mat between a starting point to an ending point, wherein the fabric or mat is subjected to a plurality of processes and is in substantially constant movement atop the lower belt; mixing a pre-polymer with a curative to form a resin mixture, the curative facilitating in polymerizing the pre-polymer to form thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU); applying the resin mixture to the fabric or mat as the fabric or mat is moved under a resin application die that is positioned above the fabric or mat, wherein the fabric or mat remains in contact with the lower belt as the resin application die applies the resin mixture to the fabric or mat; sandwiching the fabric or mat between the lower belt and an upper belt of the double belt compression press to press the resin mixture entirely through the fabric or mat such that the resin mixture fully saturates the fabric or mat; and passing the resin mixture coated fabric or mat through a curing oven to polymerize the resin and thereby form TPU, wherein the fabric or mat is in constant movement through the curing oven between the upper belt and the lower belt; wherein upon exiting the curing oven, the fabric or mat is fully impregnated with TPU.

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): 0.8143781515065356
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5800833726481958
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7909486736207016
- Mean Citation Score: 395.754134
- Max Citation Score: 472.8867
- Similarity Product: 397.0606871005655

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