PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15879439
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["065", "029110"]

Abstract:
A nozzle deposits a filament of viscous, molten glass onto a print bed, while the print bed rotates about a vertical axis and translates in x, y, and z directions. The deposition is computer controlled, such that the resulting deposited filament forms a desired glass object that is solid after it anneals. One or more motors rotate the print bed such that the direction of deposition of the molten glass is constant relative to the nozzle, even though the print bed is translating in different directions relative to the nozzle. Keeping the direction of deposition constant relative to the nozzle tends to prevent the extruded filament of molten glass from experiencing large, changing, tensile and shear forces that would otherwise occur and that would otherwise damage the filament.

Claim (Index 11):
A system comprising:\n (a) a print bed; (b) a first kiln that is configured to heat material; (c) a nozzle that is configured to extrude the material onto the print bed during a period of time, which nozzle is stationary relative to a fixed position throughout the entire period; and (d) one or more motors that are configured to actuate the print bed in such a way that\n (i) while the material is being extruded, the print bed undergoes a translation relative to the fixed position and to the nozzle, which translation has an x-component and a y-component, the x-component being movement in a direction parallel to an x-axis, the y-component being movement in a direction parallel to a y-axis, and the x- and y-axes being perpendicular to each other, and \n (ii) during the translation, the print bed substantially rotates about an axis that is parallel to a z-axis, the z-axis being perpendicular to the x-axis and to the y-axis, \n (iii) during the translation, the material is deposited in a deposition direction, and \n (iv) the deposition direction is substantially constant relative to the nozzle throughout the entire translation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 40.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97183
- Patent Class: 65.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15365577', '15878167', '14845803', '14848006', '15145261']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7242187097853385
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5073185816736321
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.702528696974168
- Mean Citation Score: 200.27547
- Max Citation Score: 238.37936
- Similarity Product: 170.71527581707

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

Dataset: test