PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15890419
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["118", "200000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses herein provide for the application of viscous fluids, such as adhesives, in pre-determined patterns, to an advancing substrate. The fluid applicator comprises a slot die applicator and a substrate carrier. The slot die applicator comprises a plurality of applicator channels, each applicator channel being controlled by a switching valve, and wherein the switching valves are independently switchable.

Claim (Index 7):
A method for applying adhesive discharged from a slot die applicator to a substrate in a pattern, the slot die applicator comprising a plurality of applicator channels, the method comprising the steps of:\n continuously advancing the substrate in a machine direction; engaging the substrate with a substrate carrier, the substrate carrier comprising: a pattern element, wherein the pattern element includes a pattern surface; positioning the substrate carrier adjacent the slot die applicator to define a minimum distance, Hg, between the pattern surface of the pattern element and the first lip and the second lip that is less than the unconstrained caliper, Hs, of the substrate; advancing the second surface of the substrate past the slot die applicator while the first surface of the substrate is disposed on the substrate carrier; intermittently compressing the substrate between the slot die applicator and the pattern surface of the pattern element by advancing the pattern element such that the pattern surface of the pattern element advances past the first lip, the slot opening, and the second lip of the slot die applicator while the first surface of the substrate is disposed on the substrate carrier; and wherein the flow of adhesive supplied to each of the applicator channels is independently controlled by a switching valve, and wherein each of the switching valves are independently switchable.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.51111
- Patent Class: 118.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14993154', '13052139', '13459363', '13685817', '13685844']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8591269192905537
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5441706241194544
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8276312897734438
- Mean Citation Score: 401.036776
- Max Citation Score: 406.84692
- Similarity Product: 376.26577269441606

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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