PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864119
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["156", "580200"]

Abstract:
The sonotrode and anvil of Applicant's issued U.S. Pat. No. 8,376,016, for advanced ultrasonic welding of work pieces, are readily incorporated into new form-fill-seal machines, but existing machines with heat-seal stations pose difficult problems for swapping of the sealing packages. Kits enabling heat station replacement with the Applicant's patented sonotrode and anvil include: a housing; a rail fixed thereto; anvil and sonotrode support members; and a parallel gripper. Each of the anvil and sonotrode support members is slidably attached to the rail(s) and are also connected to a respective piston of the gripper, permitting actuation of each through cycling of the gripper pistons. The improved sonotrode/anvil combination each include corresponding pluralities of energy directors arranged into a three-dimensional grid pattern that produces narrower weld regions, which exhibit greater durability, permitting use of less packaging material.

Claim (Index 5):
The ultrasonic welding device according to  claim 2  further comprising:\n one or more sensors configured to indicate when said sonotrode is in a disengaged position with respect to said anvil; and \n one or more pouch presence sensors configured to prevent said convergent translation of said support members, when no pouch is present between said surface of said sonotrode and said surface of said anvil.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57576
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14056030', '15359639', '13751363', '14056050', '15492181']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9395914921691896
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6293170826882857
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.9085640512210992
- Mean Citation Score: 637.498338
- Max Citation Score: 702.92725
- Similarity Product: 515.6794276962876

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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