PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15774031
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["118", "308000"]

Abstract:
An arrangement ( 40 ) and process for coating a vehicle component ( 30 ) with a solid lubricant including a thermal spray device ( 10 ) having a spray direction along a spray line (S) corresponding to a central axis of a spray plume ( 16 ); a solid lubricant injection device ( 20 ) having an injection direction along an injection line (L) corresponding to a central axis of an injection plume ( 24 ); and a vehicle component ( 30 ) to be coated, having a surface ( 31 ) arranged at a distance (d) from an outlet orifice ( 13 ) of the thermal spray device ( 10 ) along the spray line (S). The solid lubricant injection device ( 20 ) is positioned such that the injection line (L) intersects the spray line (S) at an intersection point (P), which is intermediate the outlet orifice ( 13 ) of the thermal spray device ( 10 ) and the surface ( 31 ) of the component ( 30 ) to be coated. Also a process for thermal spray coating a vehicle component ( 30 ) with a solid lubricant coating and a vehicle, with such a coated component.

Claim (Index 19):
An arrangement for coating a vehicle component comprising:\n a) a thermal spray device comprising a process gas inlet, a thermal-coating composition inlet, and a first outlet orifice for the process gas and also for the thermal coating composition; b) the thermal spray device having a spray direction along a spray line corresponding to a central axis of a spray plume from the first outlet orifice, the spray line being aligned with a central axis line passing through a center of the first outlet orifice of the thermal spray device; c) a solid lubricant injection device comprising a fluidized solid lubricant inlet and a second outlet orifice from the solid lubricant injection device, the solid lubricant injection device having an injection direction along an injection line corresponding to a central axis of an injection plume from the second outlet orifice, the injection line being aligned with a central axis line of the solid lubricant injection device; and d) wherein the solid lubricant injection device is positioned such that the injection line intersects the spray line at an intersection point, which is intermediate the first outlet orifice of the thermal spray device and the surface of a component to be coated.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.39394
- Patent Class: 118.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13182002', '12489088', '11410046', '15356116', '13575237']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7948586236718783
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4933566484736047
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.764708426152051
- Mean Citation Score: 181.790534
- Max Citation Score: 198.76935
- Similarity Product: 127.55429036676584

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

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