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 4):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the first laser beam generates a spot having a size substantially corresponding to a diameter of the filler wire and the second laser beam generates a spot or a twin-spot having a size substantially corresponding to a size of the weld zone.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43548
- Patent Class: 219.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14782732', '15308348', '13809652', '15306735', '15615226']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8372801026450722
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5219983700380839
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8057519293843735
- Mean Citation Score: 248.153162
- Max Citation Score: 343.66714
- Similarity Product: 268.45205743306883

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

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