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 2):
A method of making a fifth wheel hitch with an integral wear plate, comprising the steps of:\n providing a slurry including a ceramic component and a lubricious component; depositing the slurry into a first mold; forming a preform, wherein the ceramic component and the lubricious component have a specified density gradient in a flow direction; removing the preform from the first mold; depositing the preform into a second mold, the second mold being shaped as a wear plate; depositing a metal component into the second mold, wherein the ceramic component, the lubricious component and the metal component form the wear plate; removing the wear plate from the second mold; inserting the wear plate into a fifth wheel hitch bearing plate mold; and depositing a fifth wheel hitch forming material into the fifth wheel hitch bearing plate mold such that the fifth wheel hitch forming material surrounds the wear plate.

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): 0.7525348160147196
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5883076229722581
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7361120967104735
- Mean Citation Score: 313.20523999999995
- Max Citation Score: 485.14597
- Similarity Product: 458.535548649466

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

Dataset: test