PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15751439
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["345", "175000"]

Abstract:
An injection moulding apparatus and method for producing a moulded article is disclosed herein. In a described embodiment, the method comprises: (i) securing a layer of film to a part of a first mould half at step  504 ; (ii) adjusting relative position of the first mould component and a second mould component to an initial moulding position at step  506  to define a mould cavity; (iii) injecting molten moulding material into the mould cavity at step  508  to enable the molten moulding material to contact the layer of protective film; (iv) moving a movable core at step  510  to compress the molten moulding material in the mould cavity; and (v) cooling the compressed molten moulding material at step  514  to bond the layer of film to the cooled moulding material to form the moulded article.

Claim (Index 13):
An injection moulding method for producing a moulded article, comprising:\n (i) providing a first mould component having a first mould component moulding surface and a first mould component engagement surface which meets the first mould component moulding surface at a first mould component moulding edge, and a second mould component having a second mould component moulding surface and a second mould component engagement surface which meets the second mould component moulding surface at a second mould component moulding edge, the second mould component further including a movable core; (ii) securing a layer of film to the first mould component moulding surface; (iii) adjusting relative position of the first mould component and the second mould component to a closed position to define a mould cavity and in which the first mould component engagement surface is engaged with the second mould component engagement surface along a parting line, wherein in the closed position, the first mould component moulding edge is spaced from the second mould component moulding edge by an offset along the parting line; (iv) injecting molten moulding material into the mould cavity to enable the molten moulding material to contact the layer of film; (v) moving the movable core to compress the molten moulding material in the mould cavity; and (vi) cooling the compressed molten moulding material to bond the layer of film to the cooled molten moulding material to form the moulded article, wherein the second mould component includes an optical waveguide cavity having a cavity wall which forms a part of the second mould component moulding surface, the cavity wall being arranged to meet the second mould component engagement surface at the second mould component edge.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.125
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13344307', '12936673', '10030887', '13263120', '11490748']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6715710949048495
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4895682339709412
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6533708088114587
- Mean Citation Score: 250.406224
- Max Citation Score: 254.29237
- Similarity Product: 207.92314665292025

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

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