PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15936196
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["164", "091000"]

Abstract:
A metal matrix composite article is described that includes a metal component, a ceramic component, and a lubricious component. The metal matrix composite article has a first surface and a second surface. The lubricious component is present in an amount that is highest at the first surface and is lowest at the second surface. The ceramic component is present in an amount that is highest at the first surface and is lowest at the second surface. The metal component is present in an amount that is highest at the second surface and is lowest at the first surface. In some cases, the metal matrix composite article is a wear plate for a fifth wheel hitch.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of making a fifth wheel hitch with an integral wear plate, comprising the steps of:\n providing a preform, wherein the preform is shaped as a wear plate having a first surface and a second surface, wherein the preform comprises a ceramic component and a lubricious component, wherein the lubricious component has a density that is highest at the first surface and is lowest at the second surface, and wherein the ceramic component has a density that is highest at the first surface and is lowest at the second surface; depositing the preform into a fifth wheel hitch bearing plate mold; depositing a metal component into the fifth wheel hitch bearing plate mold, wherein the metal component both forms the fifth wheel hitch and infiltrates the preform to form a wear plate integral to the fifth wheel hitch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.26316
- Patent Class: 164.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14997668', '13841281', '11279682', '10476135', '14218969']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.756209656308875
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.577254053411572
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7383140960191448
- Mean Citation Score: 313.20523999999995
- Max Citation Score: 485.14597
- Similarity Product: 395.8564043089932

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

Dataset: test