PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15954329
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["219", "121640"]

Abstract:
Methods for joining a first blank and a second blank, at least one of the first and second blanks comprising at least a layer of aluminum or of an aluminum alloy or a layer of zinc or of a zinc alloy. The method comprises selecting a first portion of the first blank to be joined to the second blank, and selecting a second portion of the second blank to be joined to the first portion, and welding the first portion to the second portion. The welding comprises using a filler metal laser beam and a welding laser beam, and displacing both laser beams in a welding direction to melt and mix a filler wire material with the melted portions of the two blanks. The present disclosure further relates to blanks obtained by any of these methods and to products obtained from such blanks.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for joining a first blank and a second blank, wherein one or both of the first blank and the second blank comprises a steel substrate with a coating of aluminum or aluminum alloy, and wherein the first and the second blanks are square butt-jointed, a first portion being an edge of the first blank and a second portion being an edge of the second blank, the method comprising:\n selecting the first portion of the first blank to be joined to the second blank, and selecting the second portion of the second blank to be joined to the first portion; melting the first portion and the second portion, while supplying a filler wire to a weld zone using a first laser beam and a second laser beam, wherein the first laser beam melts the filler wire in the weld zone during welding, and the first portion and the second portion of the blanks are melted and mixed with the melted filler wire using the second laser beam.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43548
- Patent Class: 219.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14782732', '15308348', '13809652', '15306735', '15615226']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8202923301340823
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5178485408709196
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.790047951207766
- Mean Citation Score: 248.153162
- Max Citation Score: 343.66714
- Similarity Product: 297.5609060024548

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

Dataset: test