PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948075
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["428", "161000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for mechanically bonding substrates together. The apparatuses may include a pattern roll including a pattern element protruding radially outward. The pattern element includes a pattern surface and includes one or more channels adjacent the pattern surface. The pattern roll may be positioned adjacent an anvil roll to define a nip between the pattern surface and the anvil roll, wherein the pattern roll is biased toward the anvil roll to define a nip pressure between pattern surface and the anvil roll. As substrates advance between the pattern roll and anvil roll, the substrates are compressed between the anvil roll and the pattern surface to form a discrete bond region between the first and second substrates. As such, during the bonding process, some yielded substrate material flows from under the pattern surface and into the channel to form a channel grommet region.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for dynamically bonding substrates, the apparatus comprising:\n an anvil roll; a bonding roll including:\n base circumferential surface; \n a pattern element, wherein the pattern element includes a pattern surface, and wherein the pattern element protrudes outward from the base circumferential surface to define a distance, Hp, between the pattern surface and the base surface, and wherein the pattern element is bounded by a perimeter; \n a channel in the pattern element, the channel having a first end portion and a second end portion, the first end portion located on the perimeter; and \n wherein the bonding roll is adjacent the anvil roll to define a nip between the pattern surface and the anvil roll; and wherein the bonding roll is biased toward the anvil roll to define a nip pressure from about 40,000 PSI to about 60,000 PSI between the pattern surface and the anvil roll.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32353
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14301426', '14301416', '14492114', '14038812', '15042174']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9204606516191016
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.575503880585914
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8859649745157829
- Mean Citation Score: 394.9761600000001
- Max Citation Score: 471.7915
- Similarity Product: 450.65994478499886

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