PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864576
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["029", "091100"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for no-glue pocketed spring unit construction. Rows of pocketed springs modules, comprising more than two pocketed springs surrounding a central hole, can be automatically loaded onto an assembler; pocketed spring-surrounded openings can be automatically aligned with welding phalanges; and probe/anvil welding pairs can be inserted into modules in different rows of modules, closed around polymer pocket fabric, and activated to weld rows of modules together without glue; without a user manually loading rows of modules onto the assembler.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for assembling a cushioning unit, comprising the steps of:\n wherein individual pocketed spring modules comprise more than two pocketed springs which together surround an opening, a) automatically aligning, using multiple positioning rods inserted between pairs of adjacent ones of said modules in a linearly connected row of said modules, a main axis of said openings of said row of modules with a main axis of welding phalanges in a row of welding phalanges; b) inserting said welding phalanges into said aligned openings, and inserting another row of welding phalanges into said openings of another row of modules which is adjacent and parallel to said row of modules; and c) closing together said rows of welding phalanges, and activating ones of said welding phalanges to thereby weld together said rows of modules.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.52542
- Patent Class: 29.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14562365', '14604661', '14158811', '14602257', '14602272']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9020977627740804
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5406961583527049
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8659576023319429
- Mean Citation Score: 397.245256
- Max Citation Score: 405.641
- Similarity Product: 320.8392103668451

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