PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15894463
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["384", "282000"]

Abstract:
A layer is provided for a thrust bushing, for example a torque converter thrust bushing. A phenolic resin is bonded directly to a bearing surface of a rotating component to form the layer without any substrate.

Claim (Index 14):
A method for manufacturing a thrust washer, consisting essentially of:\n providing a first press having a non-stick coating; providing a second press; providing a base material between the first press and the second press, the base material having a surface oriented toward the first press; providing at least one phenolic resin layer on the surface, wherein the at least one phenolic resin layer is the only structure between the base material and the non-stick coating of the first press; heating the first press and the second press; bonding the at least one phenolic resin layer to the base material by pressing the first press and the second press against the at least one phenolic resin layer and the base material for a predetermined amount of time; and releasing the top press.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.39286
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: half
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14259972', '12291963', '12291962', '14887903', '14889849']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7483356731708963
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4837520107694523
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.721877306930752
- Mean Citation Score: 123.558166
- Max Citation Score: 161.77053999999995
- Similarity Product: 114.9163413544452

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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