PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15887846
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["059", "005000"]

Abstract:
A method is provided for producing chain link plates for a plate link chain with alternating inner chain links and outer chain links, where the contour of the chain link plates has several punch sections and two face side and rear side contact sections which, after punching out the punch sections from the sheet metal strip provided, are first connected to complementary contact sections of adjoining chain link plates and separated in a subsequent separation cut. Further provided are bush or roller chains with outer chain link plates thus produced and a corresponding chain drive for an internal combustion engine with such a bush or roller chain. The method comprises the steps of: providing a sheet metal strip, punching out the punch sections of the chain link plates from the sheet metal strip, where a further rear side contact section, in addition to the face side contact sections, is respectively connected at the head portions of the chain link plates to a complementary contact section of adjoining chain link plates, and separating the face side contact sections and the rear side contact sections of the head portions of the chain link plates by way of a substantially waste-free separation cut.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for producing chain link plates for a plate link chain with alternating inner chain links and outer chain links, where each outer chain link comprises at least two chain link plates each having two face side head portions and two pin openings disposed in said head portions and two chain pins extending through said pin openings and connecting said chain link plates to one another, each inner chain link comprising at least one chain link plate and two mutually spaced pin openings and one respective chain pin of an outer chain link extends through a pin opening of an adjoining inner chain link to form a chain joint, the contour of said chain link plates comprising several punch sections and two face side contact sections which, once said punch sections are punched out, are initially connected to said face side contact sections of adjoining chain link plates and separated in a subsequent separation cut, comprising the steps of:\n providing a sheet metal strip, punching out said punch sections of said chain link plates from said sheet metal strip, where a further rear side contact section, in addition to said face side contact sections, is respectively connected at said head portions of said chain link plates to a complementary contact section of adjoining chain link plates, and separating said face side contact sections and said rear side contact sections of said head portions of said chain link plates by way of a substantially waste-free separation cut.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.58537
- Patent Class: 59.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13774946', '14323810', '10112381', '13700762', '13753919']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6061523381481445
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5085762471179193
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5963947290451219
- Mean Citation Score: 241.45255
- Max Citation Score: 299.4989
- Similarity Product: 270.92662293723225

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