PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16045028
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["264", "497000"]

Abstract:
A three-dimensional molding method in which a step of sintering a powder layer with a laser light or an electron beam after a flat surface has been formed by sliding of a squeegee against the powder layer is repeated in a prescribed number of times, and then the periphery is cut, in order to mold both the object  1  to be molded and a support structure  2  that supports the lower side of the object  1  from below and is intended to be removed after molding, wherein in the support structure  2 , the upper parts of the struts connected to the object  1  to be molded employ truncated circular conic shapes or partial truncated circular conic shapes that are reduced in diameter toward the top.

Claim (Index 7):
A three-dimensional molding method comprising the steps of:\n repeatedly forming the following steps a number of times:\n forming a flat surface by sliding of a squeegee against a powder layer, and \n sintering the powder layer with a laser light or an electron beam; \n then cutting a periphery of the sintered layers, in order to mold an object to be molded, a plurality of struts that support the object from a lower side and which are intended to be removed after molding, a middle partition plate that supports the struts from below and is intended to be removed after molding, and lower supporting members that support the partition plate from below and are intended to be removed after molding, wherein the steps of forming and sintering include the step of forming upper parts of the struts to employ one of:\n truncated circular conic shapes, or \n partial truncated circular conic shapes that are reduced in diameter toward a top thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71053
- Patent Class: 264.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13581449', '14725316', '11021916', '15671752', '14644569']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7281615322958012
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4775664635547288
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.703102025421694
- Mean Citation Score: 150.29346600000005
- Max Citation Score: 160.19029
- Similarity Product: 117.03907417051911

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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