PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916890
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["524", "494000"]

Abstract:
Presented are fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) sandwich structures, methods for making/using such FRP sandwich structures, and motor vehicles with a vehicle component fabricated from a compression molded thermoset or thermoplastic FRP sandwich structure. A multidimensional composite sandwich structure includes first and second (skin) layers formed from a thermoset of thermoplastic polymer matrix, such as resin or nylon, filled with a fiber reinforcing material, such as chopped carbon fibers. A third (core) layer, which is encased between the first and second skin layers, is formed from a thermoset/thermoplastic polymer matrix filled with a fiber reinforcing material and a filler material, such as hollow glass microspheres. The first, second and third layers have respective rheological flow properties that are substantially similar such that all three layers flow in unison at a predetermined compression molding pressure. These layers may be formed from the same thermoset/thermoplastic polymer material, and include the same fiber reinforcing material.

Claim (Index 8):
The composite sandwich structure of  claim 7 , wherein the thermoplastic nylon is a semi-crystalline polyamide polymerized from caprolactam, and the first and second fiber reinforcing materials each includes chopped carbon fiber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.98837
- Patent Class: 524.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12443013', '15562544', '11644122', '13315631', '12462811']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8299004478450798
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4948552619657075
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7963959292571425
- Mean Citation Score: 218.00858
- Max Citation Score: 224.62056
- Similarity Product: 141.1700421692419

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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