PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15765739
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["060", "800000"]

Abstract:
There are provided systems and processes for attaching a non-metal component comprising a ceramic matrix composite material, such as a transition duct, to a metal component, such as a mating flange of an individual exit piece for a gas turbine. The systems and processes accommodate the differences in the thermal expansion rate of the components, as well as provide connection structures which avoids interlaminar shear of the ceramic matrix composite material by loading the ceramic matrix composite material in compression and eliminating bending forces on the ceramic matrix composite material.

Claim (Index 15):
A method for attachment of a non-metal component to a metal component comprising:\n providing a non-metal component including a ceramic matrix composite material, wherein the non-metal component comprises a transition duct for a gas turbine engine; providing a metal component, wherein the metal component comprises a metallic mating flange for an individual exit piece of the gas turbine engine; providing a first segment having a base portion and a first extent extending radially from the base portion; providing a second segment comprising a locking flange; positioning the first segment such that the base portion abuts the non-metal component and the first extent abuts the metal component; further positioning the first extent between the locking flange and the metal component; securing the base portion to the non-metal component; securing the first extent between the locking flange and the metal component; and disposing a radial gap between the first extent and the locking flange to accommodate different rates of thermal expansion between the non-metal and metal components.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68421
- Patent Class: 60.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15002429', '15002456', '15002437', '14443567', '14788982']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6842621728358679
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4509876281073507
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6609347183630162
- Mean Citation Score: 105.3872778
- Max Citation Score: 108.40295
- Similarity Product: 76.46971423923968

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

Dataset: test