PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15741793
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["073", "593000"]

Abstract:
A manufacturing method is used for an outer joint member of a constant velocity universal joint. The outer joint member includes a cup section having track grooves formed in an inner periphery of the cup section, which are engageable with torque transmitting elements, and a shaft section formed at a bottom portion of the cup section. The outer joint member is constructed by forming the cup section and the shaft section as separate members, and by welding a cup member forming the cup section and a shaft member forming the shaft section to each other. The manufacturing method at least includes welding the cup member and the shaft member by irradiating a beam to joining end portions of the cup member and the shaft member, and inspecting a welded portion formed in the welding by a plurality of ultrasonic flaw detection methods with one probe.

Claim (Index 2):
The manufacturing method for an outer joint member of a constant velocity universal joint according to  claim 1 , wherein a position and an angle of the probe are freely controlled.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31818
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15761228', '15300120', '15300110', '15319613', '15319097']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.798256978447059
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5776821666350949
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7761994972658627
- Mean Citation Score: 449.953776
- Max Citation Score: 490.6959
- Similarity Product: 425.2543995806694

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

Dataset: test