PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15748560
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["228", "112100"]

Abstract:
In a method of friction stir welding two pieces of material of greatly differing melting temperatures, provision is made that the first piece of material is overlapped by the second piece of material. The rotating pin of the friction stir welding tool provides for a butt joint welding and an overlap welding at the same time in that the pin is moved along the face side and contacts it either not at all or at most to a minimum extent. The same also applies to the planar side of the first piece of material, which is overlapped by the less stable piece of material.

Claim (Index 25):
The method according to  claim 19 , wherein the friction stir welding tool is advanced toward the planar side only so far that softened material of the at least one second piece of material is permanently present between the shoulder and the planar side of the first material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78689
- Patent Class: 228.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15021930', '14128472', '13928482', '13860155', '15521584']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8438430990037065
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5179354673240399
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8112523358357399
- Mean Citation Score: 301.724296
- Max Citation Score: 326.6425
- Similarity Product: 251.09694416612385

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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