PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16090197
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["277", "442000"]

Abstract:
A piston ring may include a drawn metal base of constant thickness having an outer peripheral surface. The piston ring may also include a hard coating disposed on the outer peripheral surface. The coating may have a thickness that is greater in a region of two butt ends of the base than a thickness of the coating in another region of the outer peripheral surface. The coating may be defined by a plurality of layers with a nanoscale structure.

Claim (Index 12):
The method for coating a piston ring as claimed in  claim 11 , further comprising positioning a physical barrier between the opening of the at least one piston ring and the at least one source of coating material after at least one of receiving the first deposition of coating material and causing the second deposition of coating material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88636
- Patent Class: 277.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15517901', '10451732', '14437943', '15131017', '14379286']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7796791061145188
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5034521225145362
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7520564077545205
- Mean Citation Score: 190.968234
- Max Citation Score: 233.7321
- Similarity Product: 137.48748411755562

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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