PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15927651
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["188", "2180XL"]

Abstract:
A brake disc for motor-vehicle disc brakes, includes a body with a hub and two opposite annular planar faces, wherein at least one of these faces is formed with one or more lines defining a surface irregularity, in the form of grooves or ribs, which extend between a radially inner edge and a radially outer edge of the respective face, so as to substantially cover the entire radial extension of the face. A height of the surface irregularity along said lines is less than 0.30 mm, so that during use, the lines defining the surface irregularity disappear, due to wear of the respective face, after an initial fraction of the life of the brake disc. During this initial stage, the lines defining the surface irregularity reduce the time necessary to obtain a bedding of the disc brake with respect to a case of a brake disc devoid of the lines.

Claim (Index 9):
A method for controlling operation of a brake disc in a disc brake having a body with a hub and two annular planar faces, the method including:\n forming on at least one of these two faces, one or more lines defining a surface irregularity, which lines extend between a radially inner edge and a radially outer edge of said at least one face, in such a way as to substantially cover an entire radial extension of the at least one face, wherein the forming of the one or more lines defining the surface irregularity includes having a height of the surface irregularity along said lines defining the surface irregularity be less than 0.30 mm; and during use of the disc brake, after installation of the brake disc, using said lines defining the surface irregularity to reduce a time necessary to obtain a bedding of the disc brake with respect to a case of a brake disc devoid of said lines, and disappear, due to wear of said at least one face, after an initial fraction of a life of the brake disc, after completion of the bedding of the disc brake.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94048
- Patent Class: 188.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13808256', '15007946', '14268155', '13110325', '13925241']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8247314953399456
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4356845127657461
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7858267970825257
- Mean Citation Score: 125.20989579999998
- Max Citation Score: 128.19928000000002
- Similarity Product: 94.62192377064709

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

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