PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16028013
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["209", "405000"]

Abstract:
Screening members, screening assemblies, methods for fabricating screening members and assemblies and methods for screening materials are provided for vibratory screening machines that incorporate the use of injection molded materials. Use of injection molded screen elements provide, inter alia, for: varying screening surface configurations; fast and relatively simple screen assembly fabrication; and a combination of outstanding screen assembly mechanical and electrical properties, including toughness, wear and chemical resistance. Embodiments of the present invention use a thermoplastic injection molded material.

Claim (Index 1):
A screen assembly, comprising:\n a thermoplastic screen element including a screen element screening surface having a series of screening openings; and a subgrid including multiple elongated structural members forming a grid framework having grid openings, wherein the thermoplastic screen element spans at least one of the grid openings and is attached to a top surface of the subgrid, wherein multiple independent subgrids are permanently secured to each other to form the screen assembly, wherein the screen assembly is an independent structure configured to be removably secured to a vibratory screening machine, wherein the screen assembly has a continuous screen assembly screening surface having multiple screen element screening surfaces, wherein the thermoplastic screen element includes substantially parallel end portions and substantially parallel side edge portions substantially perpendicular to the end portions, wherein the thermoplastic screen element further includes a first screen element support member and a second screen element support member orthogonal to the first screen element support member, the first screen element support member extending between the end portions and being approximately parallel to the side edge portions, the second screen element support member extending between the side edge portions and being approximately parallel to the end portions, wherein the thermoplastic screen element includes a first series reinforcement members substantially parallel to the side edge portions, a second series of reinforcement members substantially parallel to the end portions, wherein the screen element screening surface includes screen surface elements forming the screening openings, wherein the end portions, side edge portions, first and second support members, first and second series of reinforcement members structurally stabilize screen surface elements and screening openings, wherein the thermoplastic screen element is a single thermoplastic injection molded piece, and wherein the screening openings are formed between edges of the screen surface elements, and a distance between a first edge of a first screen surface element and a second edge of a second screen surface element adjacent the first screen surface element has a magnitude in a range from approximately 70 microns to approximately 180 microns.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68519
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13800826', '15851099', '15965195', '13653887', '15196314']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7472311281156405
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6111615569995822
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7336241710040347
- Mean Citation Score: 447.8250440000001
- Max Citation Score: 583.78796
- Similarity Product: 485.6676795912218

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

Dataset: test