PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16239271
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["118", "612000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for forming a composite structure comprising rotating a base layer of an apparatus for forming the composite structure about an axis of rotation, transferring carbon short fibers from a first vibratory feed ramp onto the base layer in order to form a plurality of fibrous layers in the composite structure, and vibrating the first vibratory feed ramp during the transferring the carbon short fibers. The base layer may comprise an annular shape.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for forming a composite structure, comprising:\n a base layer that is annular in shape and configured to rotate about an axis of rotation; a vibratory feed ramp configured to transfer carbon short fibers to the base layer; a supplemental vibratory feed ramp configured to transfer carbon short fibers to an outer diameter area of the base layer; a vibration generator coupled to the vibratory feed ramp, wherein the vibration generator is configured to generate vibrations to vibrate the vibratory feed ramp; and a supplemental vibration generator coupled to the supplemental vibratory feed ramp, wherein the supplemental vibration generator is configured to generate vibrations to vibrate the supplemental vibratory feed ramp.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72917
- Patent Class: 118.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15184329', '15245007', '10315464', '14286077', '15632010']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7871904837728586
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5237296534072275
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7608444007362956
- Mean Citation Score: 175.82089399999995
- Max Citation Score: 348.53055
- Similarity Product: 290.9595994024068

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

Dataset: test