PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15964706
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["409", "137000"]

Abstract:
A swarf handling apparatus installed in a machining tool that performs machining operation accompanied with production of stringy swarf includes a swarf catching device. The swarf catching device includes a holder unit that holds the stringy swarf when the stringy swarf makes contact with the holder unit. The swarf catching device causes the holder unit to be floated in a region around a machining point in such a manner that the position of the holder unit is varied relative to the machining point, for catching the stringy swarf in the holder unit.

Claim (Index 2):
The swarf handling apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a swarf discarding device that receives and discards the stringy swarf, wherein the swarf catching device directs the caught stringy swarf to the swarf discarding device to discard the stringy swarf.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.18182
- Patent Class: 409.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10542357', '15300080', '15496692', '13380277', '15651271']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6613966495811995
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4705251944410463
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6423095040671841
- Mean Citation Score: 124.020174
- Max Citation Score: 131.62094
- Similarity Product: 76.6313967725873

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

Dataset: test