PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16023551
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["422", "171000"]

Abstract:
A catalytic converter includes: a tubular casing including at least a pair of holding tubular parts and a reduced diameter tubular part that integrally connects the holding tubular parts to each other; and a monolithic catalyst carrier accommodated in each of the holding tubular parts, the reduced diameter tubular part being obtained by press-forming a portion, between the holding tubular parts, of a casing material of a tubular shape that corresponds to that of the holding tubular parts. Flat parts are formed respectively in a plurality of places at intervals in a peripheral direction of the reduced diameter tubular part, a sensor being attached to at least one of the flat parts. Accordingly, a press load when press-forming the reduced diameter tubular part is suppressed from becoming large and unequal in the peripheral direction of the reduced diameter tubular part.

Claim (Index 6):
The catalytic converter according to  claim 3 , wherein first protrusions are respectively formed on opposite end portions, along the peripheral direction of the reduced diameter tubular part, of each of the flat parts, the first protrusions protruding outward of the reduced diameter tubular part and extending in an axial direction of the reduced diameter tubular part.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27273
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15022885', '12457217', '14234906', '13480662', '13658491']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7888826356282171
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4768499921334164
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7576793712787371
- Mean Citation Score: 150.40803200000005
- Max Citation Score: 162.66284
- Similarity Product: 105.2960200960207

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

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