PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16258851
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["174", "260000"]

Abstract:
A method is disclosed for applying an electrical conductor to an electrically insulating substrate, which comprises providing a flexible membrane with a pattern of groove formed on a first surface thereof, and loading the grooves with a composition comprising conductive particles. The composition is, or may be made, electrically conductive. Once the membrane is loaded, the grooved first surface of the membrane is brought into contact with a front or/and back of the substrate. A pressure is then applied between the substrate and the membrane(s) so that the composition loaded to the grooves adheres to the substrate. The membrane(s) and the substrate are separated and the composition in the groove is left on the surface of the electrically insulating substrate. The electrically conductive particles in the composition are then sintered to form a pattern of electrical conductors on the substrate, the pattern corresponding to the pattern formed in the membrane(s).

Claim (Index 26):
An electrically insulating substrate, wherein a pattern of electrical conductors is applied to the substrate by a method comprising:\n a) providing a flexible membrane, wherein a first surface of the membrane has a pattern of grooves formed therein, the pattern corresponding at least partially to a desired pattern of electrical conductors to be applied to the substrate; b) loading into the grooves of the first surface of the membrane a composition that includes, as composition components, electrically conductive particles and an adhesive, said loading being performed in one or more filling cycle(s) such that on completion of the loading step the composition substantially fills the grooves, level with the first surface of the membrane, and parts of the first surface between the grooves are substantially devoid of the composition; c) contacting the membrane with the substrate, with the first surface of the membrane facing the substrate; d) applying pressure to the membrane to cause the composition loaded into the grooves in the first surface of the membrane to adhere to the substrate; e) separating the membrane from the substrate to transfer the composition from the grooves in the first surface of the membrane to the substrate; and f) applying sufficient energy to sinter the electrically conductive particles and to render electrically conductive the pattern of composition transferred to the substrate from the grooves.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44286
- Patent Class: 174.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10505094', '11798797', '14706156', '13939698', '15025696']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8207746202529732
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4603985918851687
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7847370174161927
- Mean Citation Score: 145.648576
- Max Citation Score: 148.75928000000005
- Similarity Product: 113.70282521660332

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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