PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15748127
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["405", "150100"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a tunneling methods and, particularly to installing an internal or external pre-support member along with a post support member and an apparatus therefor. The tunneling method includes: excavating a pilot tunnel in a main tunnel to be built; radially forming a drilled hole from an excavation surface of the pilot tunnel to a tip end of an internal pre-support member of the main tunnel at locations in the pilot tunnel; inserting the internal pre-support member into the drilled hole, and conducting grouting and fixing the internal pre-support member; excavating the tunnel along an excavation line of the main tunnel and spraying shotcrete to an excavation surface of the main tunnel; installing a post-support member between internal pre-support members in the excavation surface of the main tunnel; and connecting the internal pre-support member and the post-support member with a plate type support member.

Claim (Index 12):
The tunneling method of  claim 1 , wherein the post-support member having a shorter length or a smaller diameter than that of the pre-support member is used.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.49206
- Patent Class: 405.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13271907', '15869545', '13996348', '13330008', '10625916']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7881170928733927
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5165822325268166
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7609636068387351
- Mean Citation Score: 256.30799
- Max Citation Score: 290.39316
- Similarity Product: 185.44332140741588

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test