PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16089236
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["148", "654000"]

Abstract:
A heat treatment apparatus of one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a feed device that feeds a heat treatment workpiece downstream in a feed direction along a heat treatment workpiece pass-line; a heating device that includes a heating coil disposed downstream of the feed device in the feed direction and encircling the pass-line; a cooling device that is disposed adjacent to the heating coil, downstream of the heating coil in the feed direction, and encircling the pass-line; and a gas supply device that is disposed upstream of the heating coil in the feed direction, directly connected to the heating coil and encircling the pass-line, and that includes a plurality of gas compartments configured by internally partitioning the gas supply device in the feed direction.

Claim (Index 17):
The steel workpiece heat treatment method of  claim 16 , wherein an extension line extended along an injection direction of the gas from the gas injection ports does not intersect with the steel workpiece passing through the gas compartments.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.91304
- Patent Class: 148.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12718390', '12572606', '14876064', '12293464', '14427075']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7706829582156092
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5329377135181366
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7469084337458619
- Mean Citation Score: 163.333336
- Max Citation Score: 173.62921
- Similarity Product: 78.28756663601905

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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