PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15761228
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
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 its inner periphery, which are engageable with torque transmitting elements, and a shaft section formed at a bottom portion of the cup section. The manufacturing method includes welding the cup and shaft members by irradiating a beam to joining end portions of the cup and shaft members, causing an outer surface including the welded portion to be formed into a flat smooth surface by removal processing, irradiating ultrasonic waves to the flat smooth surface with one probe at an incident angle which prevents total reflection in a circumferential angle beam flaw detection method, and setting a focal point of the ultrasonic waves to positions from a surface to an inside of the welded portion, to thereby perform inspection.

Claim (Index 2):
The manufacturing method for an outer joint member of a constant velocity universal joint according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the removal processing in the removal processing step comprises turning, and wherein, in the ultrasonic flaw detection-inspection step, the ultrasonic waves are irradiated in a direction parallel to turning marks formed by the turning.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90244
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15741793', '15300110', '15300120', '15319613', '15319097']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7928437511460613
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5715647570606447
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7707158517375197
- Mean Citation Score: 432.29698
- Max Citation Score: 480.2193
- Similarity Product: 402.65530705111024

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

Dataset: test