PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16113977
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["101", "491000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of aligning magnetic flakes, which includes: coating a substrate with a carrier having the flakes dispersed therein, moving the substrate in a magnetic field so as to align the flakes along force lines of the magnetic field in the absence of an effect from a solidifying means, and at least partially solidifying the carrier using a solidifying means while further moving the substrate in the magnetic field so as to secure the magnetic flakes in the carrier while the magnetic field maintains alignment of the magnetic flakes. An apparatus is provided, which has a belt for moving a substrate along a magnet assembly for aligning magnetic flakes. The apparatus also includes a solidifying means, such as a UV- or e-beam source, and a cover above a portion of the magnet assembly for protecting the flakes from the effect of the solidifying means.

Claim (Index 5):
A method as defined in  claim 4 , wherein the step of solidifying the carrier is performed before the substrate reaches a trailing edge of the elongate permanent magnet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35821
- Patent Class: 101.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15350021', '14681551', '12574007', '11022106', '11313165']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8417588058471592
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5949644923380599
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8170793744962493
- Mean Citation Score: 448.254356
- Max Citation Score: 516.44073
- Similarity Product: 464.57448907150086

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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