PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884138
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["156", "359000"]

Abstract:
A processing apparatus such as a heating and/or debulking apparatus that may be used to debulk a plurality of uncured composite layers to form an article such as an aircraft component may include a plurality of interconnected smart susceptor heater blankets. The plurality of smart susceptor heater blankets may be connected in series or in parallel, and may be controlled to uniformly heat the component during formation.

Claim (Index 19):
A method for forming an aircraft or aerospace vehicle component, comprising:\n placing a plurality of uncured composite plies onto a layup mandrel of a first subsection of a heater blanket apparatus, wherein the plurality of uncured composite plies can be cured through the application of heat; lowering a second subsection of the heater blanket apparatus to position a first smart susceptor heater blanket and a second smart susceptor heater blanket in proximity to the plurality of uncured composite plies on the layup mandrel, wherein the first and second smart susceptor heater blankets are self-regulating with regard to temperature; applying a first electrical current to the first smart susceptor heater blanket wherein, in response to the applying of the first electrical current, the first smart susceptor heater blanket heats and reaches and maintains a first target temperature; applying a second electrical current to the second smart susceptor heater blanket wherein, in response to the applying of the second electrical current, the second smart susceptor heater blanket heats and reaches a second target temperature, wherein the first target temperature and the second target temperature are below a cure temperature of the plurality of uncured composite plies; while applying the first electrical current to the first smart susceptor heater blanket and the second electrical current to the second smart susceptor heater blanket, applying a vacuum to the plurality of uncured composite plies on the layup mandrel, thereby debulking the plurality of uncured composite plies; and curing the plurality of uncured composite plies.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.52174
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15056783', '15056297', '15056509', '13248728', '15012843']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9053718636420964
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6019866798558301
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8750333452634699
- Mean Citation Score: 418.54701200000017
- Max Citation Score: 612.27515
- Similarity Product: 451.74116875995696

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

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