PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16023551
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["422", "171000"]

Abstract:
A catalytic converter includes: a tubular casing including at least a pair of holding tubular parts and a reduced diameter tubular part that integrally connects the holding tubular parts to each other; and a monolithic catalyst carrier accommodated in each of the holding tubular parts, the reduced diameter tubular part being obtained by press-forming a portion, between the holding tubular parts, of a casing material of a tubular shape that corresponds to that of the holding tubular parts. Flat parts are formed respectively in a plurality of places at intervals in a peripheral direction of the reduced diameter tubular part, a sensor being attached to at least one of the flat parts. Accordingly, a press load when press-forming the reduced diameter tubular part is suppressed from becoming large and unequal in the peripheral direction of the reduced diameter tubular part.

Claim (Index 12):
A method for manufacturing the casing in the catalytic converter according to  claim 1 ,\n comprising obtaining the reduced diameter tubular part by press-forming a portion, between the holding tubular parts, of the tubular casing material by using a plurality of split molds that are divided in a peripheral direction of the casing material and include split molds each having a flat surface for forming the flat part.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27273
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15022885', '12457217', '14234906', '13480662', '13658491']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7712863147121718
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4592268347767772
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7400803667186323
- Mean Citation Score: 150.40803200000005
- Max Citation Score: 162.66284
- Similarity Product: 120.70464751215935

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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