PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16183231
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["052", "651010"]

Abstract:
Spiral forming devices, systems, and methods can be used to join edges of a of a stock material, in a curved configuration, along one or more joints to form tubular structures, such as conical and/or cylindrical structures (e.g., frusto-conical structures). A planar form of the stock material can be formed from a plurality planar sheets coupled to one another in an abutting relationship. By controlling relative orientation and shapes of the plurality of planar sheets forming the stock material and/or by controlling a position of a roll bender used to curve the planar form of the stock material into the curved configuration, the curved configuration of the stock material can be controlled through transitions between sheets to facilitate rolling the sheets to a desired diameter with a reduced likelihood of dimples or other errors and to facilitate fit up between adjacent sheets in the curved configuration.

Claim (Index 15):
The method of  claim 6 , wherein the abutting relationship between the first planar sheet and the second planar sheet includes abutment along one or more edges that are oblique to the feed direction as the first planar sheet and the second planar sheet moving through the roll bender along the transition length.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02564
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15692461', '15870612', '15191841', '14978175', '13717786']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7814502995714439
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5334926925465284
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7566545388689524
- Mean Citation Score: 200.90163
- Max Citation Score: 344.19025
- Similarity Product: 236.5001141745745

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