PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15956471
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["072", "352000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for forming a sector of an annular component having an arrangement for securely retaining at least a portion of a blank mountable thereon. The retaining arrangement is adapted for leaving a portion of the retainable blank accessible. A punch is provided having an external surface contour shaped to correspond to the shape of all or a part of the profile of the sector of the annular component from a trailing edge to a leading edge and/or from a leading edge to an inlet edge. The apparatus has a cooperating forming arrangement for forming the profile of the sector of the annular component from the leading edge to the inlet edge. The retaining arrangement is adapted for forming a clamping boundary enclosing the accessible part of the blank to be formed by the punch.

Claim (Index 2):
The method as claimed in  claim 1 , further comprising the step of:\n clamping at least part of a blank along a continuous clamping boundary in a retaining means so as to leave a portion of the blank exposed within the clamping boundary.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 72.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14764778', '13003113', '14903862', '12155215', '14058624']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7061089841827568
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5415421922951938
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6896523049940005
- Mean Citation Score: 239.608312
- Max Citation Score: 411.11926
- Similarity Product: 296.33487795613524

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

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