PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16155087
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["148", "218000"]

Abstract:
A method for cost effectively case hardening a component formed from a martensitic stainless steel material with a desired metallurgical condition for high temperature, high rolling contact fatigue, corrosion and spall initiation and propagation resistance bearing performance. The method describes a method to significantly reduce the carburization or carbo-nitriding process times for appreciable reduction in manufacturing cost. The Method includes the steps of: forming the component from a martensitic stainless steel material having an ASTM grain size of 9 or finer; and subjecting the component to one of a carburization and a carbo-nitriding treatment with significantly lower case hardening times for manufacturing cost-effectiveness.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of  claim 8 , wherein said thermo-mechanically processing step comprises subjecting said martensitic stainless steel to a first reduction of at least 50%, a second reduction of at least 60% and a third reduction of at least 70%.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.61765
- Patent Class: 148.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15038828', '13083676', '10859371', '13647461', '14421285']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7643087486915344
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5586711460207489
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7437449884244558
- Mean Citation Score: 259.15193200000004
- Max Citation Score: 383.20105
- Similarity Product: 327.6867888473988

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

Dataset: test