PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16366775
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["073", "818000"]

Abstract:
A board testing apparatus and method and in particular a testing apparatus for testing a board made of a corrugated material, such as corrugated cardboard, for failure characteristics. The method comprises taking a corrugated board from a corrugator or converter, locating at least a part of the board into a testing machine, performing a non-destructive compression test on a sample region of the part of the board within the machine and providing a compression test characteristic reading of that region of the board, comparing that characteristic reading against a predefined acceptable compression test characteristic reading that design of corrugated board should have and concluding from the comparison as to whether the board, or that sample region of the board, meets a required compression stiffness parameter.

Claim (Index 1):
A testing machine adapted to carry out a method of non-destructively testing a structural characteristic of a corrugated board, the method comprising the steps of\n performing a non-destructive compression test on a sample region of a corrugated board of a known design, from that test providing a reading of that sample region's compression test characteristic, comparing that characteristic against a predefined acceptable characteristic that that known design of corrugated board should have, and concluding as to whether the board, or that region of the board, meets a required compression stiffness parameter, wherein the testing machine comprises: a) a support surface on which the region of the board can lay, b) a pressure plate with which a testing force can be applied to an opposing side of the board so as to apply a compression force across the thickness of the board towards the support surface, c) at least one sensor for sensing data, the data comprising a deflection by and a force from the board, and d) a database or look-up table for checking the sensed data against a predetermined force per deflection parameter for that known design of corrugated board.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16129
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15111560', '14386086', '11573803', '14233453', '12702492']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6282142368807985
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5483804883906903
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6202308620317877
- Mean Citation Score: 197.705636
- Max Citation Score: 398.69208
- Similarity Product: 305.2901155190563

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

Dataset: test