PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15993044
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["428", "113000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure relates to embodiments of an apparatus for producing polymer composite panels. The polymer composite panels include at least two layers of a polymeric matrix having discontinuous fibers embedded therein. The apparatus has a frame, a deposition bed, and a deposition head configured to move relative to the frame and over the deposition bed. The deposition head includes at least one extruder and a nozzle array. The extruder is configured to force the polymeric matrix and discontinuous fibers through the nozzle array and onto the deposition bed. The deposition head is configured to deposit an entire layer of a polymer composite panel on the deposition bed in a single pass so that the discontinuous fibers are oriented in the direction of the single pass. The disclosure also relates to embodiments of a method of forming a polymer composite panel and to embodiments of a polymer composite panel.

Claim (Index 38):
A composite sheet, comprising:\n a layer of discontinuous fibers enveloped by and distributed throughout a matrix, wherein the sheet is nonplanar, and wherein the discontinuous fibers are commonly aligned such that most of the discontinuous fibers of the layer are lengthwise oriented within 15-degrees of a common direction extending along curvature of the sheet; wherein the matrix comprises a polymer; and wherein most of the discontinuous fibers are no longer than 5 mm in length and have a widest cross-sectional dimension orthogonal to the length thereof that is less than 1.2 mm.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 71.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.45312
- Patent Class: 428.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15808081', '15174645', '15094967', '14489972', '15669441']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8784511869661119
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4785358314442139
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8384596514139222
- Mean Citation Score: 125.9687972
- Max Citation Score: 133.60022
- Similarity Product: 86.0177728427756

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

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