PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16015244
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["072", "456000"]

Abstract:
A guided keeper assembly includes a base, at least one marginal fastener aperture to detachably mount the base to an associated die shoe, and a central guide aperture. A guide pin is closely received in the central aperture of the base. A first end of the guide pin has an enlarged head to positively limit travel between the die shoe and die pad, and an opposite second end with a generally flat terminal shoulder configured for close reception in a blind hole in the die pad. The shoulder has a fastener aperture at a location spaced radially offset from the central axis of the guide pin. A fastener extends through the fastener aperture in the die pad and engages in the fastener aperture in the second end of the guide pin to securely, yet detachably, connect the second end portion of the guide pin with the die pad.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for making a metal forming die of the type having a die shoe, a die pad mounted a spaced apart distance from the die shoe for reciprocation between converged and diverged positions, and a biasing member disposed between the die shoe and the die pad for biasing the same to the diverged position, comprising:\n forming a base with a mounting face shaped to abut an adjacent face of the die shoe, at least one fastener aperture extending axially through a marginal portion of the base for detachably mounting the base to the die shoe, and a guide pin aperture extending axially through a portion of the base; forming a guide pin with a first end portion having an enlarged head shaped to abut the base to positively limit travel between the die shoe and the die pad, and a body portion selected for close reception in the guide pin aperture of the base and a second end portion disposed opposite the first end portion with a generally flat, terminal shoulder; forming a single fastener aperture perpendicularly through the terminal shoulder of the guide pin and into the second end portion thereof at a location spaced offset from the center of the body portion of the guide pin; forming a hole in the die pad at a preselected location shaped for close reception of the terminal shoulder of the guide pin therein; forming a single fastener aperture in the die pad at a preselected location which opens into the hole; forming at least one fastener aperture in the die shoe at a preselected location; inserting the body portion of the guide pin into the guide pin aperture of the base for precisely guiding reciprocal motion between the die pad and the die shoe; inserting a first fastener through the fastener aperture in the base and engaging the same in the fastener aperture of the die shoe to securely, yet detachably, mount the base to the die shoe; inserting the terminal shoulder on the second end portion of the guide pin into the hole in the die pad to precisely locate the second end portion of the guide pin in the die pad; and inserting a second fastener through the fastener aperture in the die pad and engaging the same in the fastener aperture in the second end portion of the guide pin to securely, yet detachably connect the second end portion of the guide pin with the die pad.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28986
- Patent Class: 72.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15005050', '13159485', '13114208', '11515477', '12762400']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7842016307179218
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6337433088816109
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7691557985342908
- Mean Citation Score: 544.2179899999999
- Max Citation Score: 585.7151
- Similarity Product: 575.7108364507793

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

Dataset: test