PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16189433
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["156", "060000"]

Abstract:
A machine for welding an overlapped region of two adjacent strips of material and a method of using the same. The machine includes a housing with front and rear ends, a wheel train engaged with the housing for moving the housing across the material; a nozzle on the housing having a welding head at a free end; the nozzle being positionable at least partially beneath the housing's bottom wall for welding the overlapped region; front and rear pressure rollers engaged with the housing, where the front roller is positioned forwardly of the welding head and the rear roller is positioned rearwardly of the welding head; wherein the rear pressure roller applies pressure to the overlapped region when the wheel train moves the housing in a forward direction; and the front pressure roller applies pressure to the overlapped region when the wheel train moves the housing in a reverse direction.

Claim (Index 3):
The method as defined in  claim 2 , further comprising:\n welding the first overlapped region until the second end of the structure is reached; pivoting the welding head into a rest position where the welding head does not extend beneath a bottom wall of the housing; laterally moving the welding machine to the second overlapped region; maintaining the first orientation of the housing relative to the first end and the second end of the structure; pivoting the welding head into a use position and inserting the welding head between an overlap layer and an underlap layer of the second overlapped region; heating the welding head; moving the housing in the second direction along the second overlapped region and towards the first end of the structure; applying heat from the welding head to the second overlapped region as the housing moves in the second direction; applying pressure to the heated second overlapped region as the housing moves in the second direction; and welding the second overlapped region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44615
- Patent Class: 156.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13113316', '12577604', '12577558', '11324886', '11252867']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8713618078889096
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4945170327520351
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8336773303752222
- Mean Citation Score: 189.359962
- Max Citation Score: 216.81754
- Similarity Product: 158.91015501231198

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