PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15937429
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["427", "002280"]

Abstract:
A method is disclosed for forming a coating layer on an outer surface of a balloon of a balloon catheter. The method includes supplying a coating solution containing a drug and a solvent through an end portion of a flexible dispensing tube with an opening portion for discharging the coating solution through the end portion of the flexible dispensing tube; keeping in contact an opening portion-formed end portion side of the dispensing tube with the outer surface of the balloon in such a manner as to be oriented in a direction opposite to a rotating direction of the balloon; rotating the balloon about an axis of the balloon; and discharging the coating solution through the opening portion and applying the coating solution to the outer surface of the balloon while the dispensing tube is moved relative to the balloon in an axial direction of the balloon.

Claim (Index 17):
The balloon coating method according to  claim 10 , further comprising:\n a positioning step in which the flexible dispensing tube is positioned relative to the balloon in such a manner that a virtual position at which the opening portion would be located if the flexible dispensing tube is assumed to be non-flexible is located at a position deviated from the reference plane toward the balloon rotating direction side by an angle within the range of 0 degrees to 40 degrees, with the axis of the balloon as the vertex of the angle, in a region extending from the reference plane in a direction opposite to a discharge direction of the flexible dispensing tube.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64912
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15282230', '15282087', '15282563', '15281860', '15188192']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8452311405257642
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.610524234424846
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8217604499156724
- Mean Citation Score: 515.3932000000002
- Max Citation Score: 570.9329
- Similarity Product: 465.6085873036623

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

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