PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16195934
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["277", "312000"]

Abstract:
A static gasket and method of construction thereof is provided. The gasket includes a functional layer constructed of one type of metal having an opening bounded by an inner periphery an outer periphery. The gasket further includes a carrier layer constructed of a different metal than the functional layer. The carrier layer has an opening bounded by an inner periphery configured to receive the outer periphery of the functional layer in a line-to-line or loose fit. The functional layer is configured in substantially coplanar relation with the carrier layer with a first portion of the outer periphery of the functional layer being welded to a radially aligned first portion of the inner periphery of the carrier layer. A second portion of the outer periphery of the functional layer remains detached from a radially aligned second portion of the inner periphery of the carrier layer.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of constructing a static gasket, comprising:\n providing first and second layers of metal constructed of different types of metal from one another; forming the first layer into a functional layer having an opening configured to register circumferentially with an opening to be sealed and having an outer periphery; forming the second layer into a carrier layer having an opening bounded by an inner periphery configured to receive the outer periphery of the functional layer therein; disposing the outer periphery of the functional layer in the opening of the carrier layer such that the functional layer is in substantially coplanar relation with the carrier layer; forming at least one through passage in the carrier layer;\n extending a swaging tool into the through passage to plastically deform a first portion of the carrier layer and bias the inner periphery of the first portion of the carrier layer into abutment with a radially aligned portion of the outer periphery of the functional layer while second portions of the carrier layer that are not biased by the swaging tool remain unbiased; and \n welding the portion of the inner periphery of the first portion of the carrier layer to the radially aligned portion of the outer periphery of the functional layer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.67857
- Patent Class: 277.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12854626', '15371426', '13827828', '14464161', '12859398']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7784923126903355
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5141638822553556
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7520594696468375
- Mean Citation Score: 277.24079600000005
- Max Citation Score: 329.85358
- Similarity Product: 322.7181231946373

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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