PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15975879
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["384", "560000"]

Abstract:
The invention provides a ring for a bearing. The invention further provides an inner ring, an outer ring and the bearing. The ring includes a raceway ring being a hardened steel metal ring providing a raceway surface configured and constructed for guiding rolling elements of the bearing. The ring further provides printed material bonded to the steel of the raceway ring. The printed material being material printed via an additive manufacturing process. The printed material may be used to customize a shape of the ring, for example, of the inner ring or the outer ring of the bearing, thus allowing flexible customization.

Claim (Index 1):
A bearing, comprising:\n a first raceway ring and a second raceway ring, the first raceway ring having a raceway surface configured to contact a rolling element and having a rear surface located opposite to the raceway surface; a first material printed using an additive process over the first raceway ring to form a first ring, wherein the first material is printed so as to form a plurality of cavities in the first ring that are spaced from the first raceway ring; a second material printed using an additive process over the second raceway ring to form a second ring such that the second raceway ring is configured to contact the rolling element; and the rolling element positioned between the first ring and the second ring and contacting the first raceway ring and the second raceway ring, wherein the first raceway ring further comprises an attachment element formed by at least one of: ( 1 ) a circumferential groove in circumferential direction, and ( 2 ) a coating applied to at least a part of the raceway ring.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 384.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15106454', '15106664', '15105184', '15106526', '15106797']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7639480503046592
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5599145952009221
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7435447047942855
- Mean Citation Score: 295.5556200000001
- Max Citation Score: 432.72803
- Similarity Product: 366.34148724488495

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

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