PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15755805
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["219", "121640"]

Abstract:
A method for producing a tailor-made semi-finished sheet metal product where two steel sheets of different material grades and/or thicknesses are joined by laser welding. At least one of the sheets is press-hardenable steel having a metallic coating of aluminium or aluminium-silicon. Filler wire is fed into the weld melt. The filler wire is substantially free of aluminium and contains at least one alloy element which promotes the formation of austenite in a content that is at least 0.1 wt. % greater than that in the press-hardenable steel. The filler wire is heated before being fed into the weld melt. The steel sheets have a gap delimited by the edges of the sheets having an average width of at least 0.15 mm. The ratio of the volume of filler wire inserted into the gap to the volume of the steel sheet material melted by the laser beam is at least 20%.

Claim (Index 16):
The method according to  claim 15 , wherein pure argon or a mixture of argon and carbon dioxide is used as the protective gas.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90476
- Patent Class: 219.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15118921', '14443441', '15306735', '14348382', '15308348']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8365345678822114
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5192930518032113
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8048104162743114
- Mean Citation Score: 251.89025
- Max Citation Score: 328.3579
- Similarity Product: 260.4926152811825

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

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