PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16132637
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["524", "879000"]

Abstract:
Methods of making fiber reinforced composite articles are described. The methods may include treating fibers with a sizing composition that includes a polymerization compound, and introducing the treated fibers to a pre-polymerized composition. The combination of the treated fibers and pre-polymerized composition may then undergo a temperature adjustment to a polymerization temperature at which the pre-polymerized composition polymerizes into a plastic around the fibers to form the fiber-reinforced composite article. Techniques for introducing the treated fibers to the pre-polymerized composition may include pultrusion, filament winding, reactive injection molding (RIM), structural reactive injection molding (SRIM), resin transfer molding (RTM), vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM), long fiber injection (LFI), sheet molding compound (SMC) molding, bulk molding compound (BMC) molding, a spray-up application, and/or a hand lay-up application, among other techniques.

Claim (Index 1):
A treated fiber for a fiber-reinforced composite article, the treated fiber comprising a fiber surface having a polymerization compound non-covalently contacting the fiber surface,\n wherein the polymerization compound has the formula:\n R\u2014X-(I) n  \n wherein n is an integer with a value of 1 to 5; R comprises a terminal moiety selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen and a hydrocarbyl group, X comprises a linking moiety that links the R moiety with one or more I moieties; and (I) n  comprises one or more polymerization initiator moieties, wherein each of the initiator moieties is capable of initiating a polymerization of one or more lactam monomers, and wherein each of the initiator moieties is the same or different.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05195
- Patent Class: 524.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15231580', '14476481', '12881736', '13788857', '14847222']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.80662182038402
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5463599743829748
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7805956357839154
- Mean Citation Score: 327.866714
- Max Citation Score: 409.96826
- Similarity Product: 369.9961728460669

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

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