PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16193957
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["052", "223140"]

Abstract:
The present invention pertains in general to post-tensioning apparatus and systems surrounding the fabrication and repair of concrete and other construction materials. The present invention surrounds apparatus and system directed to the post-tensioning for reinforcement of existing and new concrete structures through the application of tensile forces between two attachment points anchored to the structure to be mended.

Claim (Index 6):
An apparatus for applying tension to cracked concrete comprising:\n a tensioning mechanism comprising a constant cross-sectional profile, a first female threaded feature at a first distal end of the tensioning mechanism, a second female threaded feature at a second distal end of the tensioning mechanism, and a torque application feature located between the first and second female threaded features; a first tension application component, with a proximal end aligned with and proximate to the first distal end of the tensioning mechanism, the first tension application component having a male threaded feature at the proximal end of the first tension application component, and an oblong plate form at a distal end of the first tension application component; the male threaded feature affixed to a first longitudinal end of the plate form, and the plate form having an aperture therethrough proximate to a second longitudinal end; a second tension application component, with a proximal end aligned with and proximate to the second distal end of the tensioning mechanism, the second tension application component having a male threaded feature at the proximal end of the second tension application component; the second tension application component having at least one concrete structure engaging feature located at a distal end of the second tension application component; the male threaded features of the first tension application component and the second tension application component configured to engage with the female threaded features of the tensioning mechanism wherein the rotation of the tensioning mechanism in a first direction causes the first tension application component and the second tension application components to retract toward a center of the tensioning mechanism and rotation in a second direction causes the first and second components to protract from the center of the tensioning mechanism, and wherein actuation of the tensioning mechanism by rotation allows post-tensioning of a concrete structure when the first tension application component and the second tension application component are engaged with the concrete structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.46341
- Patent Class: 52.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14311651', '11977470', '10523355', '14257530', '11353253']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.800560697467059
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4826367357081813
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7687683012911714
- Mean Citation Score: 177.517166
- Max Citation Score: 189.02898
- Similarity Product: 130.87550440213678

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

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