PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15904728
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["055", "497000"]

Abstract:
A filter element has a zigzag-folded filter medium. Filter medium sections joined by a fold edge define an intermediate fold space, respectively, with a fold base and fold peaks opposite the fold base. An elongate support section is arranged in the intermediate fold space on a filter medium surface of one of the filter medium sections. The support section extends perpendicular to the fold edges between fold base and fold peak. The support section has a height extension perpendicular to the filter medium surface that increases in longitudinal direction of the support section from fold base to fold peak. The support section has a free side facing away from the filter medium surface. The support section has a width extension parallel to the fold edges. The width extension decreases parallel to the filter medium surface and perpendicular to the longitudinal direction from fold peak to fold base.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of manufacturing a filter element of a filter for filtering fluids, wherein\n the filter element comprises:\n a zigzag-folded filter medium provided with a raw fluid side and a clean fluid side, \n wherein the filter medium comprises fold edges and filter medium sections extending between the fold edges, respectively, \n wherein two of the filter medium sections joined by one of the fold edges define an intermediate fold space, respectively, wherein the intermediate fold space defines a fold base and fold peaks at ends of the two filter medium sections opposite the fold base; \n the filter element having:\n an elongate support section arranged in the intermediate fold space on a filter medium surface of the filter medium sections of the intermediate fold space at the raw fluid side or the clean fluid side; \n \n the method comprises the steps of\n providing an adhesive; \n providing a sheet of filter medium; \n applying the adhesive using a nozzle in the intermediate fold space onto the filter medium section to form the at least one elongate support section such that the elongate support section has a width extension extending in a direction parallel to the fold edges, \n moving the nozzle to form the at least one elongate support section to extend at a slant or perpendicular to the fold edges between the fold base and the fold peak of said one filter medium section;\n wherein the width extension decreases parallel to the filter medium surface and perpendicular to the longitudinal direction in the direction from the fold peak of said one filter medium section to the fold base; \n \n folding the filter medium to form the fold edges of the filter medium sections, the filter medium sections delimited by and extending between the fold edges; and \n curing the adhesive to harden the at least one elongate support section.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7069
- Patent Class: 55.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13413763', '13413778', '13413801', '14444336', '15172278']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.848457957945377
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4906877102730018
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8126809331781396
- Mean Citation Score: 257.647172
- Max Citation Score: 271.92963
- Similarity Product: 206.5186967933965

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