PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15753030
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["427", "535000"]

Abstract:
A method and an apparatus for cleaning and coating a metal strip wherein the metal strip is cleaned in a cleaning chamber connected to a deposition chamber and wherein the vacuum pressure in the cleaning chamber is kept in the range of 0.01-100 mbar and the vacuum pressure in the deposition chamber in the range of 0.01-10 mbar.

Claim (Index 9):
An apparatus for cleaning and coating a metal strip provided with:\n a deposition chamber, air locks at the entry and exit sections for the metal strip to enter and exit the apparatus, a vapour chamber to heat a metal and generate a coating vapour, a vapour distribution section with one or more orifices to direct the coating vapour to the metal strip, a hood at least partially enclosing a space which connects to the distribution section with an open side directed at the metal strip which is to be coated, heating means to heat the hood, and connecting means to connect the vapour chamber to the distribution section in the deposition chamber, wherein the apparatus includes a cleaning chamber provided with a plasma cleaning device to clean the metal strip and wherein the cleaning chamber is connected to the deposition chamber wherein the coating vapour is applied to the metal strip.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03448
- Patent Class: 427.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13965968', '13103871', '12293880', '13579765', '10557214']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7982546946187914
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4830067973913666
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.766729904896049
- Mean Citation Score: 152.286754
- Max Citation Score: 155.16731
- Similarity Product: 107.92862399111924

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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