PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16059275
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["425", "375000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method for the automated manufacturing of three-dimensional ( 3 D) composite-based objects is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a material feeder, a printer, a powder system, a transfer system, and optionally a fuser. The method comprises inserting a stack of substrate sheets into a material feeder, transferring a sheet of the stack from the material feeder to a printer, depositing fluid on the single sheet while the sheet rests on a printer platen, transferring the sheet from the printer to a powder system, depositing powder onto the single sheet such that the powder adheres to the areas of the sheet onto which the printer has deposited fluid, removing any powder that did not adhere to the sheet, optionally melting the powder on the substrate, and repeating the steps for as many additional sheets as required for making a specified  3 D object.

Claim (Index 29):
The method of  claim 15 , wherein the felted gripper is used to place a substrate sheet onto the platen by lowering the felted gripper to the surface of the platen, such that as the bottom surface of the felted gripper nears the top surface of the platen, vacuum grippers of spring-loaded pins are attracted to and engage ferromagnetic material comprising the surface of the platen and as the gripper moves away from the platen, springs of the spring-loaded pins become compressed so that the forces of the springs eventually overcome the magnetic forces causing the vacuum grippers of the spring-loaded pins to disengage from the platen, thereby leaving the substrate sheet on the surface of the platen.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27143
- Patent Class: 425.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15611320', '15922469', '10782323', '15803199', '15722653']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6496547570733728
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5481216435017234
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6395014457162079
- Mean Citation Score: 186.4833852
- Max Citation Score: 395.5807
- Similarity Product: 307.0773483057141

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