PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961384
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["419", "PCA001"]

Abstract:
A method comprising supplying a first brown part and a second brown part, each of the first and second brown parts formed from a material in which more than 50 percent of powder particles of a second powdered metal have a diameter less than 10 microns, in a first mode, loading the first brown part into a fused tube, and ramping a temperature inside the fused tube at greater than 10 degrees C. per minute but less than 40 degrees C. per minute to a first sintering temperature from 500-700 degrees C., and in a second mode, loading the second brown part into the fused tube, and ramping the temperature inside the fused tube at greater than 10 degrees C. per minute but less than 40 degrees C. per minute to a second sintering tempering temperature from 1000-1200 degrees C.

Claim (Index 10):
A multipurpose sintering furnace comprising:\n a fused tube formed from a fused silica having a thermal expansion coefficient lower than 1\u00d710-6/\u00b0 C.; a seal configured to seal the fused tube versus ambient atmosphere; an internal atmosphere regulator operatively connected to an interior of the fused tube and configured to apply vacuum to remove gases within the fused tube and to introduce a plurality of sintering atmospheres into the fused tube; heating elements placed outside the fused tube and outside any sintering atmosphere within the fused tube; and a controller operatively connected to the heating elements and the internal atmosphere regulator, the controller configured to operate the heating elements and the internal atmosphere regulator, in a first mode, to sinter first brown parts, formed from a first material, within a first sintering atmosphere at a first sintering temperature higher than 500 degrees C. and less than 700 degrees C., and in a second mode, to sinter second brown parts, formed from a second material, within a second sintering atmosphere at a second sintering temperature higher than 1000 degrees C. but less than 1200 degrees C.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64286
- Patent Class: 419.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15892741', '15892750', '15722445', '15892733', '15892726']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7590844476816989
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5357220022504512
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7367482031385743
- Mean Citation Score: 380.284554
- Max Citation Score: 387.17532
- Similarity Product: 240.9359357894897

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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