PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16109328
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["123", "041160"]

Abstract:
An aluminum piston including a cooling gallery with titled inner and outer side walls is provided. The piston comprises a ring belt with a ring grooves, and an iron insert is disposed in a top one of the ring grooves. To reduce stress and mass of the piston, material located under the iron insert is removed, so that the outer side wall of the cooling gallery is tilted toward the center axis. The inner side wall of the cooling gallery is tilted away from the center axis.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of manufacturing a piston, comprising the steps of:\n providing a body portion formed of an aluminum material and extending around a center axis, the body portion including a crown containing a cooling gallery, the crown presenting a combustion surface, the crown including a ring belt with a plurality of ring grooves, the ring grooves including a top ring groove located closer to the combustion surface than the other ring grooves, the cooling gallery of the body portion including an inner side wall and an outer side, the inner side wall of the cooling gallery being tilted away from the center axis of the body portion, the outer side wall of the cooling gallery being tilted toward the center axis of the body portion, and disposing an insert in the top ring groove of the ring belt.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91837
- Patent Class: 123.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12776572', '14298186', '14981319', '14968415', '14700654']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7449335443258343
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4798387623143513
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.718424066124686
- Mean Citation Score: 234.093104
- Max Citation Score: 249.01724
- Similarity Product: 197.2122428129935

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

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